Cathy Belton

Broadcaster Shay Healy also received a lifetime achievement award at the ceremony

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

Mark O’Rowe’s new drama finds that people are the hardest things to solve

Osborne’s ‘Look back in Anger’ returns to the Gate, and a new work from Mark O’Rowe

Review: It would be a shame to wind down this expertly made, well written garda drama

Mark O’Rowe’s latest play ‘The Approach’ was triggered by three women in his head

Actors, writers, directors, producers, designers and stage managers sign statement supporting others who ended silence about abuse of power

Nowhere Fast stars Alison Spittle as Angela, a young woman in a downward spiral

The comedian on her new TV show 'Nowhere Fast', a sitcom about women, friendship, and where the men are little more than love interests

Long career on stage and screen recalled at funeral of actor who died aged 87

Consider Friel’s plays and you realise what happens on stage can be acutely subjective

McHugh has a skilled hand for creating mood, sly dialogue and psychological excavation, but seems less concerned with the mechanics of plot

Here’s six things we learned at Galway’s arts festivals, including some insights from the Abbey Theatre’s new co-director

In 1922, when she was five, unfriendly men with revolvers raided the Brennan family home in Ranelagh, Dublin, in search of Maeve’s father, who was on the run

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

A Liverpudlian mother is pushed to the edge of the world by a tragedy

Easier than ‘Dementiaville’ is ‘The Syndicate’, a drama about a group of ordinary Joes who win the lottery

Viewer ratings may have dropped since its debut, but make no mistake: this show is great value

Review: David Tennant and Olivia Colman’s police drama is still a must-see – unlike RTÉ’s Charles Haughey drama

Review: Anyone tuning in to see shaking scenery and ropey acting will have been disappointed

How does Brian Friel’s 1979 play about a Troubles-era dysfunctional family hold up?