'You get to the top, and you realise it’s really only the middle': Gabriel Byrne as PM Tom Dawkins Thus key exchanges were rarely allowed to take more than a couple of shallow breaths before we were ...

Over the last 30 years or so, the Avalanches have proved themselves to be samplers supreme and masters of the cut-up, ...

I have to confess I was deeply sceptical that Haruki Murakami’s 1985 magical realist novel would work on stage. The plot, ...

Last year I was at the convention of the Association of British Choral Directors in York and, at the end of a long day and ...

Earlier this year Marty Gleeson was the first Irish woman to win best newcomer at the Edinburgh Comedy Awards for her debut ...

The stars in this rating are all down to the musical quality of the performance and the abilities of the singers – a leading ...

Making the television news even in the UK, let alone in hundreds of countries around the world, the story of the lost Irish ...

This third and final instalment of Anthony Horowitz’s Susan Ryeland trilogy continues the author’s ingenious mystery-within-a ...

Anne-Marie Duff stars as Julie, a middle-aged, middle-class divorcée who parted company with her cheating husband Richard some 11 years ago, and has brought up their two daughters, the ambitious ...

Many epic biopics make a messy spread of their protagonist's life (the overrated Oppenheimer is a prime example). Not this ...

A tray of water, a metallic plate piled with salt, a bubble-producing plastic stick. The kind of tat that looks so cheap you ...

Given how relentlessly cheerful his paintings are, you’d have thought Pierre-Auguste Renoir would be a jolly cove. But his ...