Rick’s Café Américain never existed, so a US ex-diplomat decided to build it in Casablanca

Aoife McArdle has made her name with videos for Bryan Ferry and U2. Her debut feature, ‘Kissing Candice’, was made for a much lower budget, and yet is far more challenging

Former US president’s threadbare routine of maudlin self-pity does not work any more

‘Breaking In’ star and producer talks about her new film, and the long road ahead to achieve fair representation

At 64, is the Ballymena actor too old to play Ramond Chandler’s much acted detective?

Film star remembered as a ‘legend who marked numerous generations’

‘This star is dedicated to the people of Derry... dreams do come true’ she says

Football festival ongoing against a backdrop of terrorism concerns, flooding and strikes

Officials hoping first five in Epsom Derby could be reunited to clash at the Curragh

The fascinating story behind Muhammad Ali’s fight against Al ‘Blue’ Lewis in Dublin

Joint-4/1 favourite US Army Ranger one of champion trainer’s seven possible starters

Market leader Wings of Desire among four horses supplemented for Saturday’s classic

Obituary: ‘She was a free woman who lived by her own rules’

Aidain O’Brien’s Shogun and Idaho follow 6-1 shot home but Derby picture remains fuzzy

The journalist and TV host talks about a life spent asking questions, his recovery from serious illness and how he fears he will be remembered for an errant emu

Butch and Sundance, Spock and Kirk, Woodward and Bernstein . . . Movie bromance has been around for a lot longer than the word that has come to describe the genre

When your birthday falls on Christmas Day, you may be shortchanged on presents or denied a party, and you definitely won’t be the centre of attention

Illustrator PJ Lynch was never interested in writing – until he stumbled across the story of a servant who fell from the Mayflower and survived

‘Killarney hotel was at the centre of some classic Celtic Tiger rezoning shenanigans’

A romantic overture swiftly becomes an embarrassing scene for our leading man

A print of late US senator’s painting of daffodils – which was given to the Hollywood star – sells for €7,000

Stephen Fry recently married a man 30 years his junior. What factors determine the chances of success of such relationships?

The conceptual artist and novelist – aka Patrick Ireland – looks back

Noted gloom merchant David Fincher has adapted the popcorn-ready bestseller ‘Gone Girl’. The grim result? ‘A very realistic view of marriage’

Noted gloom merchant David Fincher has adapted the popcorn-ready bestseller ‘Gone Girl’. The grim result? ‘A very realistic view of marriage’

Lauren Bacall: September 16th, 1924 - August 12th, 2014

Actress delivered lines with assurance of a fallen maharani, writes Donald Clarke

It is hard to argue against a system that at least tries to sideline the hatchet men

Door between parties ‘is not nailed shut’ as Merkel withdraws to consider options