Steve Martin and Martin Short: ‘I have about 800 cousins coming to the Dublin show’

The veteran comedians on Irish roots, timeless humour and touring with a partner

No Netflix, I am not going to finish watching Schitt’s Creek

The once-great sitcom long ago committed the unforgivable sin of becoming nice

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I was Boris Johnson’s boss: he is utterly unfit to be British prime minister

The Tory party is about to foist a tasteless joke upon the British people. He cares for nothing but his own fame and gratification

UK has two options: a people’s vote or Liechtenstein Plus

Fintan O’Toole: Brexit looks like it was written by Marx Brothers

A Portrait of the Artist as a PR Man – James Joyce’s controversial campaign to promote an operatic friend, John O’Sullivan

An Irishman’s Diary

Roddy Doyle is back – and has homeless crisis in his sights

New film ‘Rosie’ focuses on ‘ordinary’ family staying in hotel accommodation

The best new films and TV on Netflix and Amazon this summer

Here are our small-screen highlights from now unil the end of August

Brendan’s tragic voyage: Behan in the USA: The Rise and Fall of the Most Famous Irishman in New York

Review: The deterioration of Behan’s health and talent during his three-year love affair with the US is the subject of a fascinating book

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The Raid 2

Women with convictions: ‘This is a female show and it’s badass’

Netflix’s ‘Orange Is the New Black’, about a middle-class citizen who ends up in a tough prison, hands strong roles to its overwhelmingly female ensemble cast

‘It is humanity in all its beauty, hairy arse and warts’

Finding one’s inner clown is part of a tradition dating back to ancient Greece

Don't give up that bus seat for me yet, sonny

Column: The arrival of a properly pregnant woman on a train can still trigger a chaotic panic

Screenwriter for whom the green light still shines

Johnny Ferguson