‘With MND you are trapped in your own body. You can reach the stage where you have no quality of life’
Liam Carney, one of Ireland’s most deservedly unavoidable actors, on playing a man with motor neuron disease in Claire Dix’s film Sunlight
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Skull two pints in Connemara: this week’s theatre highlights
Pat Shortt stars in the second of Martin McDonagh’s Leenane Trilogy; Roddy Doyle’s barfly banter gets a human face with Liam Carney and Phillip Judge
Lost & Found: Most appealing film yet from Ireland’s maverick moviemaker
Review: Liam O Mochain is at the centre of his omnibus film’s daisy chain of stories
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If the nation does not come to the theatre, the theatre must go out to the nation
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Bush Moukarzel and Ben Kidd slowly strip away the trappings of form and character from Chekhov’s first work, and take a wrecking ball of theatrical convention
Opera meets Twitter in Sky Arts campaign
The broadcaster has commissioned a ‘parallel narrative’ to market Mahagonny production
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Ibsen’s whistle blower brings us worrying news from Norway via Arthur Miller’s America
The dark side of the moon landing
Richard Dormer’s Irish-American gangster play orbits around a jukebox, violence and some brutal characters
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