Kerrywoman will walk into nominations, barring a meteor strike, while Paul Mescal might face a tougher battle to take top prize

Paul Mescal loses out to Stellan Skarsgård in best supporting actor category

Golden Globes could bring further recognition that country’s talent pool has grown deeper

Jessie Buckley, Paul Mescal, Pierce Brosnan, Richard Gere and Jacob Elordi feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of January 9th, 2026

The Irish actor never said he intended to take a break from acting. That won’t prevent people from getting the wrong impression

The stars of Hamnet, Chloé Zhao’s Oscar-tipped film, talk Shakespeare, acting and growing up in different Irelands

Strung-out Joyceans will use any excuse for a hit

Is the man bag for function, fashion or just to flash wealth?

Maggie O’Farrell hails actors’ performances in adaptation of her novel

In Chloé Zhao’s beautifully shot, cruelly raw feature, the Irish actors play the grieving Shakespeares

Paul Thomas Anderson’s rambunctious One Battle After Another topped the charts with nine nominations

Gary Oldman and Adam Scott among those nominated in TV category

The former GAA star’s new album, The County Star, is a salute to both the Irish midlands and the US state of Texas

The long-time collaborators join up again for a frenetic, characterful, lovely tale set in the night markets of Taipei

You don’t so much interview Farrell as curate his conversation. A professional down to his neat fingertips, he gives you, in 20 minutes or so, enough material for a smallish book. It is 25 years since Farrell made the jump from Ireland to Los Angeles with Tigerland. His early roguish demeanour has matured into a more complex charisma.

Academy Award nerds are already engraving the Hamnet star’s name on the best-actress trophy. All that stands in her way are pesky other actors

Film adapted from Maggie O’Farrell’s bestselling novel of the same name has received rave reviews

The actors are rumoured to star in Sam Mendes’s upcoming quartet telling the ‘epic story’ of the Liverpool band

Not exactly, although not everyone believes his work should retain compulsory status in higher-level English for the Leaving Cert

But Fianna Fáil candidate has different star power as he brings GAA fame and vision for Áras to South Dublin