Jessie Buckley, a generational talent with acting superpowers
From her quiet emotion in War & Peace to her compelling physicality in Hamnet, the Irish actor has shown her talent runs deep
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Ronnie Delany: Ireland’s Olympic hero remembered
Personal anecdotes from readers highlight the lasting cultural impact of Ireland’s track legend
London’s Burning actor John Alford dies in prison
Alford was serving an eight-and-a-half-year sentence for sexual offences against two teenage girls
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March 14th-20th highlights: including Turbulence: The Story of Ryanair, The Other Bennet Sister and the Oscars
The White House ‘slopaganda’ machine is a direct hit on American soft power
Hollywood is used to being in the international persuasion business. Donald Trump’s triumphalist warmonger videos change that
Louis Theroux on masculinity, marriage and more: ‘Would you like me to cry now?’
The daring documentary-maker, who tackles the manosphere in his new Netflix project, has the tables turned as faces questions on some prickly subjects
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March 7th-13th highlights, including: All That Remains with Niall Breslin; A Woman of Substance; a new Claudia Winkleman show; and more
Jessie Buckley: love of music, theatre helped me cope with eating disorder and depression
Actor from Killarney makes the comments to Lauren Laverne during an episode of BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs
Claudia Winkleman’s chatshow is ‘obviously going to be awful’. Or is it?
The host has a flair for spontaneous hilarity and an expert team behind her, but this is still a plunge into new territory
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March 1st-6th highlights: including Goodman: Too Big to Fail; Home of the Year; Vladimir; and more
Mark Robson on his abuser: ‘When he died, I went through a terrible time because I wanted to kill him’
Rugby commentator has spent his life putting himself back together after being abused by paedophile Lindsay Brown when he was 11
Getting our oar in: Frank McNally on the perils of linguistic imperialism
Their eccentricity might be charming if it wasn’t for the assumption that everyone else speaks that way
‘Tourette syndrome is like blinking: the urge is too strong to control’
The man at the centre of the Bafta racial slur controversy said he was ‘deeply mortified’ if anyone considered his tics intentional
Bafta N-word Tourette fallout has done nobody any good and there is no easy fix
On one thing everyone agreed: broadcast of the involuntary tics two hours after the live event defied all reason
PSNI and MI5 unlawfully obtained phone data of prominent Northern Ireland journalist, tribunal hears
Vincent Kearney was wrongly referred to as a ‘suspect’ in a criminal investigation, and the PSNI compiled a detailed profile of intelligence material on him
Bafta N-word controversy: BBC producers ‘didn’t hear’ slur while ‘working in a truck’
Broadcast containing N-word remained on BBC iPlayer overnight before coverage was taken down
Britain’s King Charles should heed the lesson of the crumbling Irish Catholic Church
Abusers did not bring down the hierarchy here, it was down to the repeated cover-ups by bishops
AI Confidential with Hannah Fry: A stark message about the shadowy side of machine intelligence
Television: Absorbing first episode of three-part series explores ominous possibility that AI isn’t so much stealing our jobs, as our souls
Robert Carlyle joins Line Of Duty cast in lead role for new series
Carlyle will star alongside Martin Compston, Vicky McClure and Adrian Dunbar in series seven
RTÉ crime drama Kin is coming back, and based on more recent offerings, it can’t come soon enough
Kin gave RTÉ of its biggest ratings hits since its previous big crime show, Love/Hate
Patrick Freyne: If I could marry a TV show, I’d choose this one about a bearded man
From a warm, funny series about connection to the embodiment of cuddly evil, these are the recent(ish) shows I’ve liked most
Hillary Clinton accuses Trump presidency of Epstein files ‘cover up’
Clinton calls on ‘slow-walking’ US department of justice to ‘get the files out’ with some 3m documents being withheld
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February 15th-19th highlights: including The Tony Blair Story, Yellowjackets, and 56 Days
Fergal Keane: veteran Irish foreign correspondent leaves BBC after 37 years
Threats to a free press from oligarchs are now greater than ever, warns journalist as he departs reporting role
BBC set to cut costs by about 10% in latest restructuring plan
Director-general Tim Davie tells staff broadcaster aims to trim annual budget by hundreds of millions of pounds
Lord of the Flies: Adolescence writer Jack Thorne’s experiment in free-range parenting
Speaking of strange islands, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s less famous brother Charles has a documentary on Prime Video
Lord of the Flies on BBC One review: Far too pretty to reflect the ugly side of humanity
You tune in expecting scorched earth insights into the fundamental ugliness of humanity – but instead it’s a glorified David Attenborough documentary
Lupita Nyong’o, Odessa A’zion and the Norman Nobrains of racially controversial casting
Nobody wants casting directors to be administering DNA tests to establish the genetic suitability of auditioning actors
TV guide: the best new shows to watch, starting tonight
February 8th-14th highlights, including Lord of the Flies, The Summit, and How to Get to Heaven from Belfast
‘To be honest I’m a bit overwhelmed’: Pat Kenny signs off after more than four decades of daily radio
Radio: Vetaran broadcaster is flooded with messages from wellwishers as he leaves his weekday slot on Newstalk
Nigella Lawson descends from the heavens to redeem The Great British Bake Off with her sacred double entendres
News that the food guru is to join the Channel 4 cookery show has sent journalists crackers
Challenger, 40 years on: the space shuttle disaster watched live by millions of children
Nasa’s avoidable tragedy exemplified 1980s overconfidence and haunted a generation, but the allure of space exploration endured
Motherland star Philippa Dunne: ‘People love Anne, and it really touches me’
Mayo-born actor on her new play at the Gate Theatre, getting a ‘cringey’ photo with Joanna Lumley and Jennifer Saunders, and coming from a long line of women who ‘live into their 100s’
Irishwoman Rachel Duffy has proven the truth at the heart of Traitors UK
Cast as a traitor, the communications executive from Newry has played a brave yet clever game. But is it over?
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