Derry Girls season 3: We’re Taken by surprise when a certain Irish actor puts in a cameo

Contains spoilers: On the evidence of this gags-galore first show, the final season will be a blast

No meat, two veg: Ray D’Arcy serves up bland fare

Spud rant and Jasper Carrott interview are like a diet of root vegetables: filling but dull

1990s Derry seen through the eyes of a 16-year-old girl

‘Derry Girls’ is a zippy comedy whose teen stars have bigger troubles than the Troubles

Sean Hughes: coruscating comic talent who never compromised

Youngest ever winner of the Perrier Prize, he became the UK’s biggest stand-up attraction

Ireland still ‘values the imagination’, President tells festival

Clifden Arts Festival also pays tribute to artist and writer Tim Robinson

Kevin McAleer: Here’s my ID

I feel 100 per cent Irish; not northern Irish, not an Ulsterman, not a bit British, not a child of the universe. I married an Ipswich woman but I don’t dream of Suffolkation

The young Irish film-makers whose projects are under threat

Cinemagic, which gets young people involved in film, has just made a family Christmas movie, starring Suranne Jones and Rob James-Collier, in Ireland. But now its budget could be halved

Health Scan: Kevin McAleer, comedian

Medley of music, art, theatre at Clifden Arts Festival

Special tribute to be paid to late poet Dennis O’Driscoll

Sky Cats Laugh In Kilkenny

Kilkenny’s Comedy Festival Hit The Heights

Laughing all the way to Kilkenny comedy festival

Revamped Cat Laughs festival includes Chris O’Dowd, Dylan Moran and David O’Doherty

Chris O’Dowd to take part in revamped Cat Laughs comedy festival

TV network is new sponsor of June bank holiday event in Kilkenny