1+ hour, 36+ min ago   (1274+ words) Lance Hammer, an American film-maker of great rigour, has made just two features in nearly two decades. His first, Ballast, set in the Mississippi Delta, won the directing award at Sundance in 2008 and was widely regarded as one of the…...

8+ hour, 13+ min ago   (328+ words) The Traitors Ireland (RTÉ One, Sunday, 9.30pm) has come down with a severe case of difficult second season syndrome and two weeks in there is little indication that it has captured the public’s imagination. Part of the issue is the lack…...

16+ hour, 57+ min ago   (518+ words) Oasis are definitely, maybe returning to Slane Castle for at least one – and possibly two – concerts next year. At least that is what the online rumour mill is suggesting this weekend after the band’s official account posted a striking video…...

18+ hour, 7+ min ago   (336+ words) John Francis Flynn is up against it at Bohemian FC’s Dalymount Park, where he has to overcome not only the revelation that he once had a passing fancy for Bohs’ nearby rivals Shelbourne, but also the audience’s incessant chatter. The…...

1+ day, 42+ min ago   (1427+ words) It’s been a long day. Connor reaches over to give his girlfriend Aibhínn a hug before they head to bed. He feels something on her shoulder and grasps at it – a little white sticker with a message: “You have been…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago   (1230+ words) Years before she became famous for Call My Agent!, her hit film-industry satire, Camille Cottin already knew what it was like to breathe the same air as Hollywood royalty. In 2008, when she had only just started her career, the French…...

3+ day, 8+ hour ago   (644+ words) Bloc Party made a lot of noise with their debut album, Silent Alarm, from 2005. It’s a record that has come to be regarded as one of the towering achievements of the unfairly reviled “landfill indie” era. But the very fact…...

1+ day, 16+ hour ago   (523+ words) “To me personally, Woman Unknown is about the female body as a battleground,” she said from the podium. “At the same time, the film tells the tale of women who are invisible, unseen and voiceless.” The award from a jury…...

2+ day, 48+ min ago   (326+ words) Through their attraction campaign. I saw it on LinkedIn, because I was scrolling one day, and I thought it would be a cool opportunity. I knew somebody who had done it before, so I reached out to them, and they…...

3+ day, 14+ hour ago   (339+ words) Uilleann piper Paddy Keenan, one of the founding members of The Bothy Band, has died aged 76. Born into a Traveller family and raised in Dublin, Keenan was the third generation in his family to take up the uilleann pipes. Keenan…...