Ireland’s new must-see tourist sites for fans of film and fiction: From Sally Rooney’s novels to Cillian Murphy’s movies
An unexpected boon of Ireland’s cultural success is that its less well-known locations are suddenly on the tourist trail
Sharon Horgan
Irish actor and writer
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
Bad Sisters review: Beautiful Dublin shines again as Sharon Horgan serves up another course of zinging dark comedy
Television: Beautiful Dublin shines again in series two of Apple’s comic thriller
Sharon Horgan: ‘I’m even more hyper now. That could be the hormones. I’m on a lot of testosterone’
Sharon Horgan on series two of Bad Sisters, grieving her father on set, coping with menopause and stretching her acting muscles
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Including Bad Sisters season two, Say Nothing, Senna, Countdown: Paul vs Tyson and more
Bad Sisters actor Eva Birthistle: I’d just given birth, felt like I’d been murdered, and the midwife says ‘your husband did so well’
For the Irish actor, whose on-screen roles include Brooklyn and Bad Sisters, making the move to go behind the camera is a proud, slightly nerve-racking moment with her new film Kathleen Is Here
Eve Hewson on finding her own fame: ‘Some people have no idea of the connection or don’t even care. It’s a nice feeling’
When young, she questioned whether people were her friends because they liked her, or because they liked her father Bono
A Greyhound of a Girl: Terrific Irish ensemble enlivens charming tale that makes weighty themes feel feather-light
Animation of Roddy Doyle’s children’s book of same name leans into writer’s reliable ear for the vernacular
Good timing pays off again for Cecelia Ahern
Paul McGinley pitches up in Ballsbridge; BBC Northern Ireland journalists get good gigs; Sharon Horgan enjoys literary success; and Fianna Fail decides to run new and not so new names
Mr & Mrs Smith review: Sharon Horgan makes a cameo in this joyless clunker
Television: Donald Glover’s dour thriller is blunt reminder that some things are best left in the past
Sexy Beast star Sarah Greene: ‘To play someone so sexually empowered, I had to fall in love with my body’
A new series for the Bad Sisters and Normal People actor features her showiest display yet
Emmy Awards 2023: Succession, Beef and The Bear win big at delayed ceremony
Irish interest in LA awards did not translate to prizes despite nominations for Sharon Horgan, Dearbhla Walsh and Declan Lowney
Bad Sisters does good business for Sharon Horgan’s TV production company
Writer and actor owns 35% of group that has delivered profits of €1.78m over two years as business ramped up after pandemic
Saoirse Ronan: ‘In Ireland there was such ownership over women, physically, emotionally, spiritually, financially’
The four-time Oscar nominee from Ireland says she does not take for granted ‘the incredible stock’ she comes from
Irish actors take to picket line in Hollywood
Chief problems cited as rerun payments, airings after initial release and artificial intelligence technology
Emmys 2023: Bad Sisters leads Irish nominations with four nods
Declan Lowney shortlisted for Ted Lasso while final season of Succession dominates with 27 nods
Hollywood hit Cocaine Bear among film projects securing Irish tax credits
Third series of Netflix hit Valhalla has been the largest budget production to date in Ireland, getting tax relief of between €10m and €30m
Irish screenwriters join global day of solidarity in support of US strike
Writers Guild of Ireland to stage event in Dublin backing ongoing industrial action by 11,500 US film and television writers
Best Interests: Sharon Horgan moves between dread, fear and anger in this heartbreaking drama
Television: Horgan plays Nicci, mother of Marnie, who has fallen into a coma. Should Nicci and her husband agree to turn off her life support?
‘We spent a lot of time in terrible pain’: Sharon Horgan on making new drama Best Interests
BBC series, which also stars Dublin actor Niamh Moriarty, dances between comedy and tragedy in a remarkable way
TV guide: The best shows to watch this week, beginning tonight
Best Interests, family history with Tony Connolly and Roy Keane’s trip to Cork with Gary Neville and Jamie Carragher
‘I felt seen and understood’: Irish teenage actor with cerebral palsy Niamh Moriarty on starring in new BBC drama
The Dublin actor stars alongside Sharon Horgan and Michael Sheen in Best Interests
Hollywood writers’ strike is at once heartening and depressing
When studios and streamers skimp on the screenwriting process, everybody is short-changed
‘Joke’s on you, Mam!’ Siobhán McSweeney raises the roof with her Bafta acceptance speech
At the Bafta TV awards 2023, Siobhán McSweeney joins Lisa McGee, Anne-Marie Duff and Sharon Horgan as Derry Girls and Bad Sisters scoop prizes
Sharon Horgan and Michelle Gallen win comedy writing prizes
Comedy Women in Print organisers says awards scheme is only awards of its kind in UK and Ireland that ‘shines a light on witty novels by women’
Sharon Horgan and Lily Allen’s Dreamland promised lots of laughs. We barely got one
Television: Horgan and Allen’s new dramedy has a big problem: it’s just not funny
Baftas 2023: Derry Girls, Sharon Horgan’s Bad Sisters and Cillian Murphy among nominations
Irish talent prominent across several categories in acting, writing and directing
First Aid Kit: ‘We couldn’t believe what was happening to us. We just kept going’
Sisters are one of the decade’s greatest country rock institutions even if they hail from suburban Stockholm rather than downtown Nashville
TV Baftas 2022: Social issues take spotlight at inclusive ceremony
Pleas to save Channel 4 took centre stage on Sunday night amid uncertainty over future
The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent: Sharon Horgan is funny, Nic Cage is himself
Review: Cage plays a version of himself, similar to his Wild at Heart character
Maeve Higgins: ‘Irish people are treated as some kind of miracle when they do well abroad’
The comedian on making it in the US and Ireland’s ‘overlooked, undervalued’ women
Revealed: The new comedy series Sharon Horgan was filming at the Forty Foot
Paul Howard is one of the writers of the show, which will be streamed on Apple TV+
Londoners will love Aisling Bea’s This Way Up. We might roll our eyes a little
TV review: The Kildare comedian explores the irritations and melancholy of modern life
‘Succession? I thought, I don’t want to write for a load of white men who are evil’
A career working on Succession, Veep, The Thick of It and other hit TV shows has given Georgia Pritchett a taste for finding the humanity in even the worst characters
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