How Clare Daly and Mick Wallace became stars of authoritarian state media

A new Irish Times investigation shows the MEPs’ outsized profile in regime-controlled media

Bridge on the River Kwai: ‘This film does not authentically portray the conduct of British officers’

Letters reveal government objections to classic movie set in Japanese prisoner of war camp

The poet as press attaché – An Irishman’s Diary on John Betjeman in Ireland

Big Brother’s Long Shadow – Frank McNally on Orwell’s 1984 at 70

Orwell's 1947 essay 'Towards European Unity' is still relevant today

Their Finest review: Oh! What a lovely war film

A great ensemble cast, featuring Gemma Arterton, Richard E Grant and Bill Nighy, put in a sterling effort in this second World War-set film-within-a-film comedy

Burmese military still controls politics as reforms falter

While Burmese society is far freer since 2009, laws keep the army firmly in control

Kuwait bans cleric's TV show after sectarian remarks

Shafi al-Ajmi called for rebels fighting Syria’s Assad regime to be armed

Private daily papers return to Burma after 50-year absence

Move marks the end of censorship initiated by late dictator Ne Win in the 1960s