French and SaundersDawn French and Jennifer Saunders have made their names through televisionFri Feb 09 2001 - 00:00
Profound movementAS the January blues bite, it's time to head to the National Gallery of Ireland for a spot of musicSat Jan 20 2001 - 00:00
All about actorsTalk this week was of the romantic comedy About Adam, which went on general release last nightSat Jan 20 2001 - 00:00
Happy birthday, NellyThe balloons are up, the tea is drawn and a large birthday cake is about to be rolled inSat Jan 20 2001 - 00:00
In a square darklyIt is difficult to avoid the serious stuff sometimes, even in party landSat Jan 20 2001 - 00:00
Keeping the faithBefore the singing, all manner of questions about "the ancestral faith" are fielded at a party to launch the Cumann Merriman …Sat Jan 20 2001 - 00:00
Jason Byrne - Vicar StreetJason Byrne, master messer, had lots of support in an audience familiar with his clowning and ad hoc madnessThu Oct 05 2000 - 01:00
Stand UpReady, Steady Cough seems like a highly appropriate title for ramshackle comedian Dylan Moran's new show, which he performs tomorrow…Sat Jul 29 2000 - 01:00
Soaps get a spring cleanOut! Out! Out! Soap stars are swirling down the plughole, or so it would seem, at least judging by the covers of the Irish TV…Sat May 06 2000 - 01:00
Hello, Sarah-LouGail Platt over in Coronation Street is looking even more like an outraged haddock over the treatment meted out to her pregnant…Sat Mar 25 2000 - 00:00
You'll never get away with itSoapland is another country; they do things differently thereSat Feb 05 2000 - 00:00
Patrick KieltyThere was another show in town but the Olympia was packed out for Paddy Kielty. He bounded onstage. "F..Sat Nov 13 1999 - 00:00
Bye, bye bad guyDIRTY Den is lounging in a sudsfilled bath. "Is there life after soap?" he asksSat Oct 30 1999 - 01:00
Apres Match live showThe spoof sporting commentary of Apres Match has been the best comedy output from RTE over the past few years, and the live version…Tue Oct 19 1999 - 01:00
Look of the DecadeTwo developments influenced women's clothed during this decade: the design, by Mary Phelps Jacobs, of the brassiere in 1914; …Mon Sept 27 1999 - 01:00
Double TroublesWhat do you do when one of your pivotal characters runs off with a Basque separatist called Ronaldo? You dig up a sister for …Sat Jun 12 1999 - 01:00
Comedians converge on KilkennyJohnny Vegas (above) is clearly working flat out in Kilkenny this weekendSat Jun 05 1999 - 01:00
Smile and smile and still be a villainIn time-honoured tradition for soap baddies, when they are bad they are very, very badSat May 08 1999 - 01:00
Late Nite CatechismThe rites and rigmaroles of Catholicism allow naturally for comic entertainment, and this is one way to do itSat Mar 06 1999 - 00:00
Can she make it through December?Sally Webster of Coronation Street has never been material for a true soap matriarch, and she is shaping up to have a truly miserable…Thu Dec 24 1998 - 00:00
A lucky loserIt was as far as you can imagine from the sophisticated soirees of the London literary establishment, and that was just how Pat…Sat Oct 31 1998 - 00:00
Orange marchers and Clinton are fair game for comedian's witIt was wild and wet in Galway, not the most hospitable weather for a wild weekend comedy festival, or any festival, come to that…Mon Oct 26 1998 - 00:00
Big news on the StreetThe big, in all senses of the word, story of the week in Coronation Street has been DobberSat Oct 10 1998 - 01:00
If you go down to the woods today...Oh the horrors. It was a week of high drama, with terror, suspense and moaning and groaning in Soapland, in what was sometimes…Sat Sept 05 1998 - 01:00
The Axemen Cometh, and goethThey called him the axeman - the Sun even called him Freddie Kreuger - for his tendency to slaughter characters willy nilly in…Sat Aug 15 1998 - 01:00
More than just a little TiffGrant and Tiffany, the match made among the bickering and sniping of a humourless, hellish East End pub, are now historySat Jul 18 1998 - 01:00
Street dreamsBruce Jones and Les Battersby, his bestknown alter ego, have a few things in common - they are both working-class lads (Les's…Sat May 09 1998 - 01:00
This week's exploding storylinesAfter the "Deardree goes to jail" saga in Corrie, things were a tad dull in Brookside CloseSat Apr 11 1998 - 01:00
Free The Weatherfield WanAn innocent woman is sent to prison and a public outcry followsSat Apr 04 1998 - 01:00
Mixed doubles`The secret," said Coronation Street's favourite anorak, Roy, of his relationship with Hayley, the one he loves, clumsily and…Sat Feb 28 1998 - 00:00
Coupling in the cowshedWhat's going on at all at all in Glenroe? The cattle seem to be having an effect on the slowest-paced soap in history, bewitching…Sat Jan 24 1998 - 00:00
Sleepless in SoaplandSoap opera and family go together like... well, Christmas and familyWed Dec 24 1997 - 00:00
Drinking in black humourAlcoholism - and the way someone with a serious drink problem lives - is not ostensibly comic material, and the humour in Owen…Tue Nov 11 1997 - 00:00
From subtle to surrealBrasstacks's production of Nobody's Child, a new play by Alice Barry (lunchtime, Andrews Lane Studio, last week) explored a three…Tue Oct 14 1997 - 01:00
Mahaffy family valuesIT'S becoming a trend - Irish writers subverting the traditional portrayal of smalltown-Irish life for surreal comic effectSat May 31 1997 - 01:00
Diplomatic moveHERE is still a familiar face from Sarah in Upstairs Downstairs to Shirley Valentine, the latter being her one immortal role, …Sat Mar 08 1997 - 00:00
Brass neckHOW far can you go? With sex, with art, with newspapers, with television, the boundaries are pushed ever further, sometimes dangerously…Sat Feb 15 1997 - 00:00
JACK of all tradesPUBS and restaurants have become infested with folk who think roaring "drink!" a la Father Jack Hackett is hilarious altogether…Sat Feb 01 1997 - 00:00
A YOUNG WOMAN DRIVENSHE was thrown in at the deep end, and it shows. Dervla Kirwan has grown up quicklyThu Sept 05 1996 - 01:00
Swimming in the good lifeBY law, no new buildings can be built along the Amalfi coast in ItalySat Jun 22 1996 - 01:00
I Doubt It, Says PaulineTHE SHOW One Hell Of A Do, was one hell of a phenomenon, and one helluva hard act to followThu Jan 04 1996 - 00:00
