Oscars 2025 predictions: Irish actors need a miracle, but what about Kneecap?
Saoirse Ronan, Cillian Murphy and Paul Mescal have struggled this awards season. Only a miracle will see an Irish actor get an Oscar nod next week
Paul Mescal
Ringo Starr on holidaying in Ireland: ‘We hopped over on a plane, rented a car and found a little guesthouse for two nights’
The Beatles drummer on his former band and his new country album, Look Up, which features a line-up of Nashville stars
Golden Globes 2025: full list of winners
The Brutalist, Emilia Pérez and Shōgun triumph at the Golden Globes as Colin Farrell wins third award
Bafta longlists 2025: Kneecap in running for seven awards as Saoirse Ronan named on best actress list
Portia A Buckley’s Irish drama Clodagh is one of the 10 titles listed for best British short film
From Paul Mescal to Bad Sisters to Claire Keegan, the green wave keeps rolling
Unfortunately, the lived experience of creatives working in Ireland is often a struggle
‘You can’t cook to save your lives’ and other quotes of the year
Planet Business: Pivots, experiments and the beauty of everyday life all feature in this round-up of the things people said in 2024
The 50 best films of 2024 – a full list in reverse order
The 10 highest-grossing titles were all sequels – but none is in our 50-best list in a year audiences turned out in numbers for ‘cultural cinema’
Mufasa director Barry Jenkins: I’ll say, ‘I was at the Oscars when they read out the wrong name.’ They’ll say, ‘Oh, you’re that guy!’
The film-maker’s big moment was almost eclipsed when La La Land, not Moonlight, was announced as best picture. Now his Lion King prequel is about to occupy Christmas
Irish WWE star Lyra Valkyria: ‘At its core, we’re storytellers. Everything comes down to good versus evil’
With its mix of larger-than-life faux rage in the ring and genuine connection with fans, it’s not hard to understand the huge popularity of WWE – and it means big business, too, for Netflix
Personally, I find it really hot when men are nice to women
Danny Dyer becoming the sex symbol of 2025 was not on anyone’s bingo card but it proves how radically the female gaze swerves from its male counterpart
I cringed at Paul Mescal’s Brit-bashing
If Ireland wants to maintain the self-belief that it is a nation of wisecrackers and comedians then it will need to work a bit harder than this
Paul Mescal to star in Beatles film, Ridley Scott says
Rumours suggest actor will play Paul McCartney, with Barry Keoghan also linked to four-film biopic
Paul Mescal sells clothes on Vinted to raise money for Pieta
Mescal is donating outfits worn on his Gladiator II press tour, including a custom hand-painted jumper
Golden Globes 2025: Good day for Colin Farrell and Andrew Scott. Bad day for Paul Mescal and Saoirse Ronan
Colin Farrell and Andrew Scott compete against each other villainously in the race for best actor in a TV movie or limited series
Golden Globes 2025: full list of nominations
Musical thriller Emilia Pérez and historical epic The Brutalist led the pack of films nominated, with Emilia Pérez earning 10 nods and The Brutalist gaining seven
Golden Globe nominations 2025: Colin Farrell and Andrew Scott get nods but Paul Mescal and Saoirse Ronan miss out
After Irish actors and films had a blockbuster 2023, hope this year mainly rests on Paul Mescal in Gladiator II and Saoirse Ronan in The Outrun and Blitz
Paul Mescal on Saturday Night Live review: Gladiator II star skewers America’s bizarre views about Ireland
TV review: Paul Mescal displays no mercy in his opening monologue on Saturday Night Live and brings all his Hollywood charisma to bear
The 10 worst films of 2024 – and Gladiator II is one of them
We gave you the best films, now here’s the worst. Is it a surprise half of these are sequels?
The 50 best films of 2024: No 20 to No 11
We continue our countdown of our favourite movies released in Ireland this year
The Movie Quiz: Paul Mescal has not featured in a film by one of these directors
Plus: What is the current Irish pick for the best international film Oscar?
Barry Keoghan set to feature in Beatles biopic, Ringo Starr says
No casting officially confirmed but names are being discussed, including Paul Mescal as McCartney
Trinity provost Linda Doyle: ‘I met Paul Mescal last week here in Trinity. Very cool’
Dr Linda Doyle is the first female Provost of Trinity College Dublin. She is a professor of engineering and the arts
Paul Mescal’s response to meeting King Charles was a masterclass in diplomacy
Gladiator II star said meeting the English king at the film’s British premiere was ‘not on the list of priorities’
Author Maggie O’Farrell: I had a teacher at school who took the register, called my name and said to me, ‘Are your family in the IRA?’
The novelist Maggie O’Farrell on leaving Ireland, growing up in Britain, life as a child with a stammer and her new book
Paul Mescal: ‘My favourite actors are Irish. There’s a wildness. We do our own thing’
Gladiator II proves another showcase for Mescal’s tough and tender masculinity, giving rein to his natural instinct as an actor
Gladiator II: What the critics say about Paul Mescal’s performance
The word on the Irish actor’s performance was consistently positive, not so much for the film itself
Paul Mescal rides A Streetcar Named Desire to New York stage
Gladiator II actor reprises role of Stanley Kowalski, following in footsteps of Marlon Brando
Gladiator II review: Don’t blame Paul Mescal, but there’s no good reason for this jumbled sequel to exist
Ridley Scott’s sequel to his own historical epic fails to rise above second-hand status, despite valiant efforts from a fine cast
Irish postpunk band Gurriers: ‘Everyone asks about the Dublin music scene. It’s not just Dublin any more, it’s everywhere’
The Irish postpunk band talk about playing Jools Holland, how Glastonbury lost out to Armagh and why Ireland’s music scene is working so well
Nell Mescal: “Am I a manifester? In my journal I’m writing, ‘I am headlining Croke Park’”
Singer-songwriter Nell Mescal from Maynooth on overcoming scoliosis surgery, dropping out of school before her Leaving Cert and her dream of headlining Croke Park
‘This feels categorically mental’: Paul Mescal stunned by celebrations at Gladiator II premiere
Actor attends Irish premiere of Ridley Scott film at Light House Cinema in Dublin
RTÉ 2FM loses listeners after string of presenter exits
‘Exciting plan’ for new schedule in early 2025, says RTÉ, while news programmes on Radio 1, Newstalk and Today FM look forward to general election boost
We’re meant to bask in Saoirse Ronan’s feminist triumph, but I find it all a bit nauseating
An actor’s entire job is to occupy the mind and body of someone else, not to be interesting themselves
Saoirse Ronan delivers a stone-cold truth about women’s safety that stuns Paul Mescal and fellow actors
Graham Norton’s male guests found self-defence hilarious. Of course it was all just a joke, but this tiny little sofa vignette reflects women’s reality
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