Roy Keane’s clash with Mick McCarthy before the 2002 World Cup is living history in Ireland. Audiences elsewhere might not know what to make of their square-off

Plus: Hollywood money to replace (the other) Brendan Gleeson; Pope Leo’s GAA link; and a spot of fencing at Milltown Golf Club

Coogan takes on role as Mick McCarthy with Éanna Hardwicke playing Roy Keane

We should be flattered that, like the ginger guitar-basher Ed Sheeran, so many people yearn to be ‘culturally’ Irish

Tim Key and Tom Basden’s new film has been almost two decades in the making. It’s well worth the wait

Stan Erraught is ideally placed to navigate this territory as a former member of 1980s band Stars of Heaven

Grandson of Irish immigrants wants to combat the ‘stigma and shame’ some survivors feel

From Bridgerton to The Sopranos, some actors have insisted on moments being axed – although they do not always get their way

Theatregoers were told the actor has laryngitis

Armando Iannucci and Seán Foley’s production of Stanley Kubrick’s political satire leans into broad physical comedy

February 1st-7th: The best movies, music, art and more coming your way this week

What golden specimens they are, you think, as they propel themselves across God’s good earth like Accenture employees here to rationalise a business

Television: why does no Irish broadcaster have the ambition to bring our history to light in so riveting a fashion?

Previews for January 26th to January 31st: including the return of The Apprentice, Idris Elba investigates Our Knife Crime Crisis and Noah Cosentino stars in The Recruit

From King Lear at the Gate to Dr Strangelove starring Steve Coogan, the coming year’s stage line-up includes jukebox musicals, period romcom and a play that probes the Irish Hospitals’ Sweepstake

Nicole Kidman stars in a kinky office romance, Reese Witherspoon and Will Ferrell play wedding planners, and Éanna Hardwicke and Steve Coogan replay Saipan

The comic actor is playing four parts in the new stage version of Stanley Kubrick’s film, which comes to Ireland in 2025

Saipan will follow the infamous 2002 World Cup feud between Ireland’s football captain and manager

Controversy still rages around dispute between captain and manager at Ireland soccer camp before 2002 Fifa World Cup

The director’s films have often stirred discontent. With his latest political thriller, Shoshana, set in 1930s Tel Aviv, he knows he must be ready for pushback