Deirdre O’Kane

Patrick Freyne: In The Big Deal, cash-strapped entertainers vie for a few months’ rent money

Cantillon: Will RTÉ and Virgin’s new formats make it through to the next round?

Broadcaster looks to talent show and second chances drama for next audience gains

‘Terrific opportunity’ to make Ireland hub for factual, lifestyle and studio shows

Media company ‘heartened’ by bigger slice of pie as pandemic boosts viewing

Centuries-old tradition another casualty of the stricter lockdown

Scheme allows artists to earn up to € 50,000 a year on creative work free of tax

The broadcaster tends towards mediocrity and self-satisfaction, not humour

The broadcaster says his working-class roots make him crave security and fear failure

A generation of female superheroes in tartan skirts and gabardines

The Irish Film and Television Academy’s awards will be broadcast on Sunday night

With audiences stuck at home, every break from contagious anxiety helps

Charities working with vulnerable groups affected by Covid-19 pandemic to benefit

Paul Mescal and Daisy Edgar-Jones to appear with Deirdre O’Kane and Dara Ó Briain on June 26th

Taoiseach’s father will celebrate 80th birthday in the land of his birth

Pantodome artistic director on loving Doireann Garrihy’s podcast and the musical Six

Film director Stephen Bradley’s memoir of life following a stage 4 cancer diagnosis will help those of us starting out on that bumpy road

When Jane Gantley was diagnosed with breast cancer, the support of her sister Linda, who was just finishing treatment for the disease, helped her stay positive

Five-part Kite Entertainment show will be filmed at Dublin’s Olympia Theatre

Laura O’Mahony on faith, family and feminism, and why her style of comedy has international appeal

Thousands throng streets of capital in dizzying array of green-themed attire

The best music, theatre, comedy, film and spoken word in the coming year

Comedian and actor on why she’s enamoured with Joanne McNally, Madrid and Marian Keyes

Capital city hosts 80 productions, from club culture and female sexuality to comedy and new theatre

Obituary: Stephen Swift was ‘an outstanding example of how to live’

There is a ton of stuff going on across the country over the next few days

The comedian on family-friendly restaurants, Katharine Hepburn and following Donald Trump on Twitter

Alison Spittle is on a quest to find out exactly what makes a culchie while Lost in Space offers an entirely different sort of quest

‘Dancing with the Stars’, a new stand-up show, life is hectic for comedian and actor Deirdre O’Kane – but that doesn’t stop her working tirelessly for homeless charities. What motivates her? Anger

Anna Geary, Jake Carter and Deirdre O’Kane will tango it out in Sunday’s final

Downton Abbey’s Hugh Bonneville on the Late Late Show and the finale of Dancing with the Stars

Deirdre O’Kane is ‘not smooth enough’ and Rob Heffernan’s footwork let him down

Review: Terrific story of a haunted big house has a baffling denouement

Britain’s Next Top Model finalist Alannah Beirne voted off by judges

Behind the scenes of the RTÉ hit show, from the nervy celebs to the team that delivers the slick production

The actor's Versace dress at promotional event has garnered criticism from feminists with Lawrence defending her outfit

John Connors’ best actor acceptance speech got a noisy standing ovation at the Iftas

Thursday’s Irish Film and Television Awards mark a strong year for Irish cinema

Sound Off: Mark O’Connell on life as a Dublin pedestrian