Clare Dunne

The brooding drama so far lacks the cranked-up energy viewers might have expected

Aidan Gillen, Ciarán Hinds and cast excel in this tale of a blood feud between Dublin gangs

Writer-star Clare Dunne shines in this irresistible drama

Crime series Kin and game show Last Singer Standing among the schedule highlights

The hit TV adaptation Normal People converts nine of its 15 nominations into Iftas

Sally Rooney adaption scoops 15 nominations. Nika McGuigan up for posthumous award

By Aisling Bea, Mary McAleese, Richard Ford, Marian Keyes, Tolü Makay, Blindboy and more

The Covid-19 pandemic has caused a traffic jam of anticipated films for this year

The singularly imaginative film, one of many discoveries, was a worthy winner

Irish-made films Sea Fever, Vivarium, Arracht and Herself head the line-up this year

Chief executive Désirée Finnegan signals return of cherished slate funding for producers

Performances praised in film about abused woman caught up in the Irish housing crisis

The best biopics, documentaries, cartoons, features and award favourites of the year

Women Make Film, Rose Plays Julie, and Charlie Kaufman unveiled as highlights

Proposed legislation would see non-EEA workers granted temporary permits

Actor on the many faces of Cate Blanchett, Cork artist Sarah Walker, and why Line of Duty is compelling viewing

The show echoes Mark O’Rowe’s dramatic monologues and the spoken word rhythms of Emmet Kirwan’s Dublin Old School

Clare Dunne’s exuberant debut, and a challenging moral puzzle at the Gate

‘What am I doing with my life? Is there a way I can be zany and mad in a positive way?’

National theatre’s new policy sees pay ‘fall 25%’ and overall employment ‘dry up’

Employers’ group warns skills shortages could curtail economic growth

Cillian Murphy stars in Grief is the Thing with Feathers. Plus: The Unmanageable Sisters at the Abbey and THISISPOPBABY’s mini-St Patrick’s festival

New production of Osborne’s drama pulls down curtain on angry young man

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

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

This week’s theatre highlights all involve stories that need to be heard, and those who are either literally and figuratively deaf to them

Everybody is talking but nobody is listening in Nina Raine’s intelligent, furious play

Here’s the second tranche of stage times for the Stradbally festival

Dublin Theatre Festival: Shakespeare’s comedy of transformation and desire meets the raucous energy of an outdoor music festival in an anarchic production

When a female fighter pilot is moved to the Chair Force, the morality of remote warfare comes crashing down

‘Grounded’, George Brant’s well-travelled play about a female drone pilot, puts words on a growing sense of moral anxiety

Comedy, aerial acrobatics and theatre part of festival which runs from September 7th-20th

An exploration of the perceived morality of extreme positions pits religious idealism against pragmatic realism within a single family unit

Clare Dunne, MD, president Irish Travel Agents Association