It is important to understand the people affected by policies. Lisa McGee showed that comedy can help us do that
Lisa McGee
West Belfast actor talks about her lead role in The Lovers playing a loyalist from east Belfast and how it brought her to parts of her home city she had never visited
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
Irish talent prominent across several categories in acting, writing and directing
It’s not that I’ve never annoyed a Protestant before – I have. But I mostly annoy Catholics
Lisa McGee’s show paid homage to a time when the music was better, the politics were more hopeful and the clothes were, well, different
Humphreys tells Shared Island event final words of TV comedy ‘appropriate’ for today
Derry Girls finale review: Alas, the last episode overdoes it with a one hour special
Contains spoilers: On the evidence of this gags-galore first show, the final season will be a blast
The sitcom writer on her childhood, becoming Jessica Fletcher and her big break
The comedian on making it in the US and Ireland’s ‘overlooked, undervalued’ women
TV review: Her first big post-Derry Girls project is as prisoner to a so far poor script
With a new starring role in Screw, the actor is waving goodbye to Derry Girls’ Michelle
Nicola Coughlan, Saoirse-Monica Jackson and the rest of the cast return for a final season
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