Criticism of Arts Council at Labour forumA continuing reluctance to take the arts seriously in Ireland, while artistic achievement is what we are best-known for globally…Mon Jun 16 2003 - 01:00
Abbey nails 2003 plans to the mastSpeculation about the Abbey's programme for the rest of the year - and particularly its plans for a new production of The Playboy…Sat Jun 14 2003 - 01:00
No war please, we're AmericanArtscape: I'm just back from a week in the States, and while there is much relief that the "war" seems to be over - until, as…Sat Apr 26 2003 - 01:00
Abbey sees itself playing a key role in city rejuvenationMr Ben Barnes, artistic director of the National Theatre, yesterday reaffirmed his commitment to the plan to develop the Abbey…Thu Feb 13 2003 - 00:00
Letter from Arts Council enrages director of GateA Christmas Carol is at the Gate Theatre and Michael Colgan thinks the spirit of Scrooge is alive at the Arts Council.Sat Dec 21 2002 - 00:00
All back to mine. And it'll cost you a tennerARTSCAPE: So, what are people up to these days in Ireland, anyway? There are lots of suppers with poetry and singing and chat…Sat Nov 02 2002 - 00:00
Dustin & Soky's Big Little Christmas PantoLet's draw up a list of things which preoccupy children these daysMon Dec 31 2001 - 00:00
French and SaundersDawn French and Jennifer Saunders have made their names through televisionFri Feb 09 2001 - 00:00
Happy birthday, NellyThe balloons are up, the tea is drawn and a large birthday cake is about to be rolled inSat Jan 20 2001 - 00:00
In a square darklyIt is difficult to avoid the serious stuff sometimes, even in party landSat Jan 20 2001 - 00:00
Keeping the faithBefore the singing, all manner of questions about "the ancestral faith" are fielded at a party to launch the Cumann Merriman …Sat Jan 20 2001 - 00:00
All about actorsTalk this week was of the romantic comedy About Adam, which went on general release last nightSat Jan 20 2001 - 00:00
Profound movementAS the January blues bite, it's time to head to the National Gallery of Ireland for a spot of musicSat Jan 20 2001 - 00:00
Jason Byrne - Vicar StreetJason Byrne, master messer, had lots of support in an audience familiar with his clowning and ad hoc madnessThu Oct 05 2000 - 01:00
Stand UpReady, Steady Cough seems like a highly appropriate title for ramshackle comedian Dylan Moran's new show, which he performs tomorrow…Sat Jul 29 2000 - 01:00
Soaps get a spring cleanOut! Out! Out! Soap stars are swirling down the plughole, or so it would seem, at least judging by the covers of the Irish TV…Sat May 06 2000 - 01:00
Hello, Sarah-LouGail Platt over in Coronation Street is looking even more like an outraged haddock over the treatment meted out to her pregnant…Sat Mar 25 2000 - 00:00
You'll never get away with itSoapland is another country; they do things differently thereSat Feb 05 2000 - 00:00
Patrick KieltyThere was another show in town but the Olympia was packed out for Paddy Kielty. He bounded onstage. "F..Sat Nov 13 1999 - 00:00
Bye, bye bad guyDIRTY Den is lounging in a sudsfilled bath. "Is there life after soap?" he asksSat Oct 30 1999 - 01:00
Apres Match live showThe spoof sporting commentary of Apres Match has been the best comedy output from RTE over the past few years, and the live version…Tue Oct 19 1999 - 01:00
Look of the DecadeTwo developments influenced women's clothed during this decade: the design, by Mary Phelps Jacobs, of the brassiere in 1914; …Mon Sept 27 1999 - 01:00
Double TroublesWhat do you do when one of your pivotal characters runs off with a Basque separatist called Ronaldo? You dig up a sister for …Sat Jun 12 1999 - 01:00
Comedians converge on KilkennyJohnny Vegas (above) is clearly working flat out in Kilkenny this weekendSat Jun 05 1999 - 01:00
Smile and smile and still be a villainIn time-honoured tradition for soap baddies, when they are bad they are very, very badSat May 08 1999 - 01:00
Late Nite CatechismThe rites and rigmaroles of Catholicism allow naturally for comic entertainment, and this is one way to do itSat Mar 06 1999 - 00:00
Can she make it through December?Sally Webster of Coronation Street has never been material for a true soap matriarch, and she is shaping up to have a truly miserable…Thu Dec 24 1998 - 00:00
A lucky loserIt was as far as you can imagine from the sophisticated soirees of the London literary establishment, and that was just how Pat…Sat Oct 31 1998 - 00:00
Orange marchers and Clinton are fair game for comedian's witIt was wild and wet in Galway, not the most hospitable weather for a wild weekend comedy festival, or any festival, come to that…Mon Oct 26 1998 - 00:00
Big news on the StreetThe big, in all senses of the word, story of the week in Coronation Street has been DobberSat Oct 10 1998 - 01:00
If you go down to the woods today...Oh the horrors. It was a week of high drama, with terror, suspense and moaning and groaning in Soapland, in what was sometimes…Sat Sept 05 1998 - 01:00
The Axemen Cometh, and goethThey called him the axeman - the Sun even called him Freddie Kreuger - for his tendency to slaughter characters willy nilly in…Sat Aug 15 1998 - 01:00
More than just a little TiffGrant and Tiffany, the match made among the bickering and sniping of a humourless, hellish East End pub, are now historySat Jul 18 1998 - 01:00
Street dreamsBruce Jones and Les Battersby, his bestknown alter ego, have a few things in common - they are both working-class lads (Les's…Sat May 09 1998 - 01:00
This week's exploding storylinesAfter the "Deardree goes to jail" saga in Corrie, things were a tad dull in Brookside CloseSat Apr 11 1998 - 01:00
Free The Weatherfield WanAn innocent woman is sent to prison and a public outcry followsSat Apr 04 1998 - 01:00
Mixed doubles`The secret," said Coronation Street's favourite anorak, Roy, of his relationship with Hayley, the one he loves, clumsily and…Sat Feb 28 1998 - 00:00
Coupling in the cowshedWhat's going on at all at all in Glenroe? The cattle seem to be having an effect on the slowest-paced soap in history, bewitching…Sat Jan 24 1998 - 00:00
Sleepless in SoaplandSoap opera and family go together like... well, Christmas and familyWed Dec 24 1997 - 00:00
Drinking in black humourAlcoholism - and the way someone with a serious drink problem lives - is not ostensibly comic material, and the humour in Owen…Tue Nov 11 1997 - 00:00
From subtle to surrealBrasstacks's production of Nobody's Child, a new play by Alice Barry (lunchtime, Andrews Lane Studio, last week) explored a three…Tue Oct 14 1997 - 01:00
Mahaffy family valuesIT'S becoming a trend - Irish writers subverting the traditional portrayal of smalltown-Irish life for surreal comic effectSat May 31 1997 - 01:00
Diplomatic moveHERE is still a familiar face from Sarah in Upstairs Downstairs to Shirley Valentine, the latter being her one immortal role, …Sat Mar 08 1997 - 00:00
