Read this before you vote: Patrick Freyne’s vibes-based guide to Election 2024
From HR Pufnstuf to Battlestar Galactica, what can we learn from political television shows through the ages before we go to the ballot box?
Aidan Gillen
Aidan Gillen: ‘Acting is like you are living 20 lives. It’s a bit of an addiction’
The Dubliner’s career has seen him take on roles from Littlefinger in Game of Thrones to Tommy Carcetti in The Wire, but Gillen remains a low-key and likeable presence
Galway Film Fleadh 2024: Kneecap scoops three main prizes
Belfast hip-hop posse’s rambunctious farce is first film in event’s history to take audience award, best Irish-language feature and best Irish film
Dance First: Finely acted Samuel Beckett biopic undermined by lit-flick cliches
Film review: Gabriel Byrne and Fionn O’Shea play the writer to great effect but the pedestrian writing bogs proceedings
Fionn O’Shea on being cast as Samuel Beckett: ‘There was a moment of elation followed by crippling anxiety’
In the film Dance First, the young Irish actor joins Gabriel Byrne as the older Beckett and Aidan Gillen as James Joyce
TV guide: 12 of the best new shows to watch, beginning tonight
Including Million Dollar Pigeons, Dial M for Middlesbrough, David Harewood on Blackface and the return of Good Omens
Aidan Gillen: ‘It was liberating to get out a little early on Game of Thrones’
Always keen on a new challenge, the unassuming Kin, Wire and Queer as Folk star gets on his gumshoes for Barber, his new film
‘Are you really a hit man?’ the Kinsellas would ask, and I’d admit I haven’t killed even one measly person
Patrick Freyne: It’s always crime with the Kin family. If they’re not in the process of criming, they’re talking about crimes of the past and future
Kin review: Dublin city is just a moody backdrop as gangsters bumble in the gloom
It looks great but style only goes so far and, two seasons in, Kin’s lack of substance is impossible to ignore
Peaky Blinders, never a great drama, returns without the electrifying Helen McCrory
TV review: The BBC show is still a triumph of style over plot but it hasn’t lost its swagger
Aidan Gillen: ‘I am trying my best to be as unhealthy as I can’
The actor on filling Donal McCann's shoes in Faith Healer and staying off social media
Kin ends with a shameless rip-off of The Godfather
Clare Dunne is utterly convincing as a grieving mother turned avenging angel
Kin finale: Eight questions the last episode must resolve
After seven sometimes thrilling, sometimes plodding weeks, season one concludes tonight
Kin review: Let’s hope the finale is better than the uneventful penultimate episode
It’s hard not to feel that episode 7 could have been efficiently compacted into episode 8
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