Adrian Dunbar

Second season struggles to set heart pumping despite ever-watchable Adrian Dunbar

Broadcaster previews spring schedule amid ‘challenging’ environment for media industry

A rich, vibrant literary and political heritage exists beyond the DUP’s grip

Representatives of civic society seek dialogue on constitutional future of island of Ireland

Take a trip to Darklands, the OAP B&B, Trinity or the Rotunda over the year ahead

Funds business Val Issuer has served notice to quit to tenants in number of older properties

A bold move by Sinn Féin can transform the dynamics of power at Westminster

Winning entry will have its work made and shown on television

Is its maker Jed Mercurio spending too much time on his other show, Bodyguard?

Tánaiste welcomed Charles and Camilla to a Brexit-fuelled mutual admiration session

Senior Dáil figures to speak but unionists not invited because of their Brexit stance

It opened its doors on the cusp of the Troubles, but Belfast’s Lyric has survived

Company had 451,520 customers at the end of 2017, down from 454,684 a year earlier

TV Review: The excellent Carolina Main is just one of several reasons to watch ‘Blood’

Broadcaster targeting international audience with this new psychological thriller

‘Blood’, starring Adrian Dunbar and Carolina Main, has the makings of must-see TV

Virgin Media’s ‘Blood’ receives highest sum in BAI’s €6m Sound & Vision round

‘Pat Kenny’s Big Debate’ and archive series ‘Don’t Look Back in Anger’ on autumn schedule

New dramas are in production, but a crowded market makes it hard to score a hit

Over 600, including big cross-section from theatre and arts , attend humanist service

Molly Windsor beats Claire Foy to take leading actress while Sue Perkins highlights pay gap issue

For more of nature’s charms, tune in to A Wild Irish Year and a Chelsea Flower Show A-Z

Netflix’s muscles in on the traditional broadcasters as Black Mirror and The Crown take three nominations

The Scottish novelist on being a thorn in the literary establishment’s side

Director Neil Jordan and star Stephen Rea discuss the making of a masterpiece, 25 years on

Seán Doran and Liam Browne want people in the Border counties to celebrate their shared literary heritge

Ireland’s amateur drama season is an eccentric, ambitious concept, with 54 productions touring 37 festivals. And the stories are as good off the stage as on it

The event also featured video tributes to Waking the Feminists and the year in theatre

After a year of theatre, hundreds of shows and days of deliberation, here are the nominees for the 2015 Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards

Abandoned by their creator and alone in a random world, the characters in Conor McPherson’s new play have more questions than answers

The festival has shunned an obvious theme in favour of reaching a wider audience

Review: ‘Happy Valley’, ‘Line of Duty’ and ‘The Fall’ topped 2014’s list of unmissable, set-the-recorder-for series. Brendan O’Carroll’s comedy didn’t make it

Lisa Dwan’s series of performances was startling

Review: Twenty-five years after the first ‘Simply Delicious’, the chef and her brother cook up some festive family fare

Broadcaster promises ‘fizzing’ Late Late Show and ‘explosive’ Love/Hate

New season includes portrait of ex-Taoiseach and return of serial killer

Conversations turn Beckettian when this festival of all things tragicomic doesn’t turn out as planned. Could it be any other way?

Are you heading to Enniskillen for the Happy Days Festival celebrating the life and work of Samuel Beckett? Here are our highlights, theatrical and otherwise

Sean Doran wants to make Happy Days a ‘destination festival’, turning Enniskillen, where the playwright and novelist went to school, into a Mecca for his fans

‘Undercover Doctor: Cure Me, I’m Gay’, with Christian Jessen, misses its chance to challenge homophobia, but the cop drama ‘Line of Duty’, starring Adrian Dunbar and Keeley Hawes, doesn’t miss a trick