Barry Keoghan: ‘I’m not an absent father ... people love to use my son as ammunition’
Dublin actor tells The Louis Theroux Podcast ‘people draw a narrative and go absent father, sh*t, deadbeat dad’
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Sharon Stone reveals identity of film mogul who ‘told her to sleep with co-star’
Stone alleges mogul who headed Paramount production told her to have sex with William Baldwin
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From Arthur Conan Doyle’s hatred of Sherlock Holmes to Stacey Solomon’s love of Christmas crafts
TV guide: 12 of the best new shows to watch, beginning Sunday night
From Liz Bonnin’s Caribbean adventure to the true story of an Irish serial killer in London
The Louis Theroux Podcast: Blessed be the Peacemaker
Review: Broadcaster’s new series on Spotify showcases his strengths as an interviewer
Bear Grylls: ‘I’m crying, my parents are crying ... I don’t think I dealt with it particularly well’
Television: Louis Theroux hits his stride when he talks to the boy’s own adventure made flesh about boarding school, among other revealing topics
What lessons did Stacey Dooley learn while living in a convent? Nun whatsoever
TV review: The usually empathetic presenter just wasn’t on the sisters’ wavelength
Patrick Freyne: If I know anything about women, it’s that they love a man who whines
Netflix's Love is Blind: If a blue rectangle of light is your sexual fantasy, you should apply
Louis Theroux: ‘I worry about giving offence, being judged, not coming up to scratch’
Amid the worries of everyday life, ‘making a documentary is like a vacation from yourself’
Nick Broomfield: ‘It’s a choice, whether you get on with your parents’
The film-maker’s latest explores his fraught relationship with his photographer father
Train of Thought – Frank McNally on riding the rails with Paul Theroux and Van Morrison
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How to cope with enhanced anxiety during Covid-19
Keeping stress at bay and looking after our mental health key in these trying times
Louis Theroux: My guilt about Jimmy Savile
When Theroux met Savile’s once-underage ex, he thought, That’s what happened in the ’60s
Soothing Shay Byrne strikes right tone for graveyard slot
Review: The presenter even makes the awful front-page news seem somehow okay
‘Part of me wants to say, shut the f**k up, Louis Theroux’
The documentary maker’s mansplaining on postnatal depression is clumsy and unethical
Louis Theroux treats rape and consent as a freak show
A documentary about consent on US campuses is too sensationalist to teach us anything
Netflix: the 10 best new shows and films in January
Sex Education, Grace and Frankie, The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes
Weekend TV guide: eight of the best shows to watch
Ireland rugby hero Peter O’Mahony and Boyzone on the Late Late, Nicole Kidman joins Graham Norton and Michael Parkinson chats to Ray D’Arcy
The eight best shows to watch on Netflix in July
‘Good Girls’ sees Christina Hendricks stage a heist, as ‘Orange is the New Black’ returns
Is the baby still breathing? The riveting, discomfiting ‘Trauma’
RTÉ’s fly-on-the-car-crash documentary is a study of composure under pressure
War dances and gale forces: This week’s best theatre shows
The Dublin Theatre Festival closes with a swirl of music and dance performances
Heroin Town review: Louis Theroux loves misery’s company
Misery is like heroin in Louis Theroux’s new documentary: cheap, plentiful and easily available
Snowfall review: Getting high on its own supply
The first hit of Snowfall goes straight for the glamour. The comedown can’t be far away
Joanne O’Riordan: I love Barça but Cork City are my little secret
John Delaney’s problematic children have become my problematic favourites
In life, there’s a big difference between ‘urgent’ and ‘important’
Jennifer O’Connell: I’m getting better at prioritising the truly irreplaceable stuff
The sad, secret life of Whitney Houston
Archive: From a secret lesbian relationship to a decades-long struggle with drugs, five years after singer’s death, a new film ‘Whitney: Can I Be Me’ examines what caused her tragic downfall
Ralph Steadman: With gonzo, you don’t cover the story; you become the story
Ralph Steadman spent days trying to find Hunter S Thompson for their first assignment, the landmark article ‘The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved’. The result changed journalism forever
Why Ireland won’t ‘ban’ Louis Theroux’s Scientology film
A speculative media story has suggested a new documentary ‘might’ be banned under Ireland’s blasphemy laws. It won’t
Adam Buxton brings David Bowie show to Dublin
Adam Buxton made his name with ‘The Adam and Joe Show’. Now he podcasts, is working with Graham Linehan, and is bringing his David Bowie special to Ireland
Television: Getting away with murder
Review: ‘Just Names of Shows’, ‘In Single Marks’, ‘Like This, Please’, 'The Secret'
Television review: Louis Theroux – Drinking To Oblivion
Theroux makes a superb return with his exploration of on all too familiar disease
Television: Kevin McGeever stung by his own ridiculous sting
Review: ‘We Need to Talk About Kevin’, ‘Pixie’s Sex Clinic’, ‘Toughest Place to Be . . . a Street Cleaner’
Television: The libel lawyers must be exhausted from laughing so much
Review: ‘Irish Pictorial Weekly’, ‘Louis Theroux: Not Guilty By Reason of Insanity’, ‘Great Irish Journeys With Martha Kearney’
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