A critical savaging for his first play scarred the author of Time of the Child. You can’t try to please people, he says. You have to do your own thing
Television: Irish-American presenter is very funny in the Irish episode of his travel show, especially when searching for Bono
Reasonably priced small plates in a buzzy room
Blunt, who stars in Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, talks sexism, strikes and social media
The US actor and director will be talking to the novelist and cookbook writer Marian Keyes at International Literature Festival Dublin
Push the barmy politics to one side and wallow in the imaginative absurdity
The actor on addiction, James Gandolfini, and the pure joy of adopting two children
The actor’s new memoir, Taste, explains how cancer took his culinary passion to new heights
Food File: Stanley Tucci releases memoir and tickets on sale for Dundrum symposium
Patrick Freyne: A US celeb says he likes our favourite butter? Make him president
Virgin Media Dublin International Film Festival unveils line-up for 2021 virtual event
The book, to be published next summer, is the Big Night, Julie & Julia and The Devil Wears Prada actor’s third food book
The 24-year-old Irish actor on Little Women, awards season and her sense of home
David Attenborough’s Our Planet, The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, Swedish drama Quicksand and Bear Grylls goes interactive
Review: The honkingly unsubtle dialogue is not worthy of Rosamund Pike’s steely focus
Review: Thommo just about rescues this silly adaptation of Ian McEwan’s novel
Incredibles 2, Ocean’s 8, Jurassic World and Mamma Mia!: Here We Go Again
A terrific voice cast are squandered on a sceenplay littered with feeble jokes
Sean Millar, Irish Opera Artists and The Grimm Tale of Cinderella come to Dublin
While some movies have vanished from the streaming service, many have arrived and there are plenty to fill the summer evenings, from comedy classics like ‘Airplane’ to thrillers such as ‘Winter’s Bone’
Teaser breaks record set by Star Wars: The Force Awakens which earned 88m views
Review: ‘Fortitude’, starring Sophie Grabol, Stanley Tucci and Christopher Ecclestone; Room to Improve; Phil Spencer: Secret Agent; Touched By Auschwitz; and How to Get Way With Murder
Oscars be damned: JC Chandor has taken a minor business transaction and turned it into one of the first great films of 2015. And the director has plenty more he wants to talk about
This incendiary sequel to The Hunger Games actually betters the already exciting original, writes Donald Clarke
This interesting but underdone drama ultimately tells us far less than we’d like to know about Julian Assange
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
Weddings, Births, Deaths and other family notices
