Ruth Wilson

The Woman in the Wall: Ruth Wilson’s Irish accent runs aground on the rocks of this drama’s stereotypes

Television: The BBC’s hysterically overcooked Magdalene-laundry series is like a reboot of EastEnders’ donkey-in-the-pub episode

Sun Aug 27 2023 - 22:00

True Things: Making a very big romantic mistake

Poised performances from two leads give this drama real intensity

Fri Apr 01 2022 - 05:00

The Dublin International Film Festival gets off to an energetic start

After a fully online event last year, the city’s cinemas are open again for a festival stuffed with Irish and international features

Tue Mar 01 2022 - 05:00

Idris Elba: ‘Man, talk about work as therapy. I would break down on set’

The actor on fighting for his big break, and why acting helped him out of a ‘dark, weird junction’

Wed Jul 28 2021 - 06:00

‘Too many sex scenes’: Why Ruth Wilson left The Affair

Allegedly ‘toxic environment’ of hit TV show also contributed to actor’s abrupt exit

Fri Dec 20 2019 - 10:00

TV in 2019: A year of big and unhappy endings

Fleabag, Game of Thrones and Catastrophe all ended – and somehow brought us all together

Sat Dec 07 2019 - 05:00

His Dark Materials: ‘I’m in over my head. I should read the books’

The show is set in a parallel universe filled with hipsters who fly around in hot air balloons

Fri Nov 15 2019 - 05:00

Joanne McNally: On My Cultural Radar

The comedian on her Edinburgh favourites, the designers Jill and Gill, and London as her new home

Sat Aug 31 2019 - 05:00

Ruth Wilson plays the wife of her grandpa, a lying, bigamist MI6 agent

TV review: Mrs Wilson delves into story of pretence and betrayal

Thu Nov 29 2018 - 10:00

Weekend TV guide: eight of the best shows to watch

Ireland rugby hero Peter O’Mahony and Boyzone on the Late Late, Nicole Kidman joins Graham Norton and Michael Parkinson chats to Ray D’Arcy

Fri Nov 23 2018 - 13:45

Lenny Abrahamson: ‘I was offered some very high-profile prestige movies’

The Dubliner on the exhausting success of Room, anti-Semitism and his ghostly The Little Stranger

Sat Sept 15 2018 - 05:00

Virgin Media greenlights sponsorship of Dublin film festival

Broadband provider will back event for next three years

Mon Aug 20 2018 - 17:16

The marriage seems okay. But ‘The Affair’ needs spicing up

We thought it was over between us, but Sky Atlantic has rekindled its infidelity drama

Tue Jun 26 2018 - 22:10

How to Talk to Girls at Parties: Punk movie is bunk

Review: Steer clear of John Cameron Mitchell’s aggressively appalling musical fantasia

Thu May 10 2018 - 12:50

Dark River: Gothic study of sexual abuse in rural Britain

Review: A murder ballad that meanders toward a sudden and sadly ill-fitting end

Fri Mar 02 2018 - 05:00

NI Assembly: brief guide to each constituency result

News, reaction, who was elected (and who wasn’t) from each of the 18 Northern Ireland areas

Sat Mar 04 2017 - 14:44

East Antrim: Sinn Féin’s McMullan is under pressure

Proven survivor will need SDLP transfers to win in predominantly unionist constituency

Sun Feb 19 2017 - 10:17

The Affair review: dissecting the anatomy of desire, adultery and self-delusion

Dominic West and Ruth Wilson continue their dangerous liaisons the third series in Sky Atlantic’s drama

Thu Dec 15 2016 - 05:00

East Antrim: McMullan (SF) and Ross (DUP) retain seats

No change in constituency with three DUP, one UUP, one SF and one Alliance Party MLA

Sat May 07 2016 - 13:37

East Antrim: Ukip can take advantage of anti-EU sentiment

Sinn Féin face big battle to hold seat, while DUP may feel loss of Sammy Wilson

Fri Apr 15 2016 - 11:12

Pat Kenny’s well-hyped return to TV makes for low-key Monday viewing

Television review: Pat Kenny in the Round, Claire Byrne Live and The Affair

Fri May 15 2015 - 13:00

East Antrim: Sammy Wilson in pole position to take seat

Outgoing Eurosceptic MP and DUP man can afford to enjoy campaign more than rivals

Thu Apr 23 2015 - 09:07

Golden Globes Winners

Complete list of winners announced at the 72nd Golden Globes in Beverly Hills

Mon Jan 12 2015 - 09:22

An affair to misremember – but where is the truth in a world of unreliable narrators?

‘The Affair’, starring Dominic West, is the classic scenario of he said she said

Mon Oct 20 2014 - 01:01

A Walk Among the Tombstones review: more measured than the average Neeson punch-up

Fri Sept 19 2014 - 00:00

Film review: Saving Mr Banks

Disney’s Triumph of the Walt is supercalifragilistic propaganda wites Donald Clarke

Fri Nov 29 2013 - 00:00

Colin Farrell: “Lothario! There’s a nice word for a slut. Imagine what they’d say if I was a woman”

He’s older, wiser and still sober but Colin Farrell hasn’t lost any of his wicked streak – and he’s definitely in touch with his feminine side. The Saving Mr Banks star on film, family, fame and femininity

Fri Nov 22 2013 - 00:00