Iftas 2021: Normal People, Smother and Dating Amber top nominations
Sally Rooney adaption scoops 15 nominations. Nika McGuigan up for posthumous award
Bloodlands: A thriller set in the so-called ‘new Northern Ireland’
Chris Brandon is the writer of a new series featuring James Nesbitt as a hard-bitten detective
Dating Amber: Agreeable comedy about a fake romance in 1990s Ireland
Review: Perfectly aligned performances from the young leads hold the film aloft
Dating Amber: A story about two gay teenagers, being each other's beards
David Freyne's film is set two years after being gay was decriminalised in Ireland
Bronagh Gallagher: ‘I never felt I was with the right man. But that’s how the dice rolled’
The actor on Brexit and Irishness, her Derry childhood, being independent and Quentin Tarantino
IndieCork: There’s no festival quite like it
Films about middle-aged pregnancy, road bowls and power-lifting ... and a few tunes
Galway Film Fleadh: ‘My spare liver is in my suitcase’
There was lots of comedy and a little Celtic misery at the famously bibulous festival
The Country Girls review: Subversion reimagined as sentimentality
The Abbey’s new take makes Edna O’Brien’s novel safe for any syllabus
Porcelain review: The perils of being someone else
A young Irish woman is not feeling herself in Margaret Perry’s debut play for the Abbey, which shadows the tragedy of a woman burned to death in 1895 for the same reason
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