Irish Independent Entertainment

05/09/2024

“The idea of putting Dr Strangelove on stage is daunting," says Coogan. "A huge responsibility. It’s also an exciting challenge, an opportunity to bring this timeless classic to a new audience"

Stanley Kubrick’s iconic Dr Strangelove is coming to Dublin next February with Steve Coogan starring in a number of roles for the production.

04/09/2024

In our culture of convenience, you don’t need to queue overnight anymore outside Golden Discs in Dublin’s Dún Laoghaire for the latest vinyl release from your revered artist.

You can just download their new material as soon as it hits Spotify and purchase all your concert passes on Ticketmaster from the comfort of your kitchen.

There has been so much consternation and controversy over the sale of tickets for Oasis’s Croke Park gigs next August.

04/09/2024

There's some great options for a night on the couch tonight

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04/09/2024

In a clear break from his James Bond past, Daniel Craig brought his latest role to the Venice Film Festival yesterday, playing a drug-addicted gay American in Luca Guadagnino’s new movie Q***r

In a clear break from his James Bond past, Daniel Craig brought his latest role to the Venice Film Festival yesterday, playing a drug-addicted gay American in Luca Guadagnino’s new movie Q***r.

04/09/2024

After researching her role for Netflix series S*x Education, the actress invited women across the globe to share their deepest desires, and this book is the result

In 1973, a book was published in the US that would eventually become banned in Ireland. My Secret Garden was an anthology of women’s sexual fantasies, as collected by Nancy Friday. A writer who concentrated on female sexuality and women’s liberation, she procured these fantasies initially from h...

03/09/2024

'Trying to rate individual seasons of Slow Horses (Apple TV+, from Wednesday, September 4) is an utterly pointless exercise.

Like Mick Herron’s Slough House novels on which the series is based, there is no “best”. They’re all absolutely terrific, consistently delivering a perfectly balanced blend of thrills and mordant humour, yet bringing something fresh to the table with every new outing'

TRYING to rate individual seasons of Slow Horses (Apple TV+, from Wednesday, September 4) is an utterly pointless exercise.

03/09/2024

The Galway native left her 2FM colleague, DJ Emma Power, in tears over the weekend when she surprised her live on air, by asking her to be her bridesmaid

RTÉ 2FM DJ Laura Fox left fellow presenter Emma Power in tears when she surprised her with a bridesmaid request on air over the weekend.

02/09/2024

Should we really be surprised at the clamour and chaos surrounding the sale of Oasis tickets over the weekend?

01/09/2024

Fans of Welsh band Catfish and the Bottlemen were left shocked and disappointed this evening as MCD announced that the band had cancelled their RDS gig 15 minutes before doors were due to open

Fans of Welsh band Catfish and the Bottlemen were left shocked and disappointed this evening as MCD announced that the band had cancelled their RDS gig 15 minutes before doors were due to open.

31/08/2024

How Noel and Liam Gallaghers’ links with the country go far beyond those childhood summers in Mayo

Peggy Gallagher cried for six months when she left rural Co Mayo for Manchester in the early 1960s.

30/08/2024

The punk poet reflects on the creation of his great poem from 1982 and taking ‘50 years to be an overnight success’

“I’m relying on you not to make me not look like a c**t,” John Cooper Clarke says, by way of his opening gambit. He made it through 17 years on he**in (“it was a feral existence,” he says of an addiction he is free of since 1990) so this should be a doddle.

30/08/2024

When the ‘Definitely Maybe’ anniversary passed, hope of a reunion seemed lost. So what finally brought Britpop’s most famous family feud to an end?

It’s happening. It’s actually happening. Music snobs, step aside. In terms of miracles, this is up there with Moses parting the Red Sea, Jesus turning water into wine and Jedward forging a career from their 15 minutes of fame.

30/08/2024

The funny woman on Ireland’s slagging culture, bad reviews and why she’d rather find her husband Fred Cooke in bed with someone else than catch him napping

Julie Jay is a comedian, writer and podcaster. She lives in Di**le, Co Kerry, with her husband and fellow comedian Fred Cooke and their two children.

29/08/2024

Like many young people from the country, Prophet Song author Paul Lynch could not wait to head for the bright lights and the buzz of the city

Like many young people from the country, Prophet Song author Paul Lynch could not wait to head for the bright lights and the buzz of the city.

29/08/2024

Band’s gig a week ago in Munich left fans light-headed and feeling loved

It’s last Thursday, and half of those on the early-morning Aer Lingus flight from Dublin to Munich appear to be going to see Adele in concert. The other half are a committed group going to see Coldplay at the Olympiastadion (tonight the band will electrify Croke Park with the first of four sold-ou...

29/08/2024

Writer and performer Emer Dineen talks about her creative roots and the lockdown woes that inspired her genre-defying show to reconnect a lost generation

When Emer Dineen was in college at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London, her friends would tease her about her devotion to being Irish, comparing her to the meme of Lady Gaga, in which the singer protests repeatedly: “I’m Italian, I’m Italian.”

28/08/2024

Craig Brown’s biography introduces us to the ‘Corleones of the dog world’, aka the late queen’s corgis, but beyond that it’s a royal world of blandness or consistency, depending on your view

Who needs another book about Queen Elizabeth II? The late monarch’s life has been documented in too many titles to count — the first biography was published when she was four years old, and they have kept coming since. Is there anything new to say?

28/08/2024

Coldplay fans have been treated to an early surprise with Chris Martin making an appearance on Grafton Street on Wednesday evening

Coldplay fans have been treated to an early surprise with Chris Martin making an appearance on Grafton Street on Wednesday evening.

28/08/2024

Planning a night on the couch? Here's the best of what's on TV tonight

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28/08/2024

The battle for tickets begins....

Ballot registration has opened for Oasis tickets in the UK and Ireland ahead of Saturday's general sale, the band announced.

28/08/2024

Did you see Oasis in the Tivoli? John Meaghar charts the band's rise through all their Irish gigs

On July 22, 1995, Oasis played Ireland for only the second time. Eighty thousand people – this then-20-year-old included – were wowed at Slane Castle by a support slot so potent that it threatened to blow headliners R.E.M. away. It didn’t – R.E.M. were also outstanding that night – but any...

27/08/2024

The 33-year-old from Dublin explained that she still has a “love-hate relationship” with the job, which she feels “most actors” have.

Eve Hewson says she considered quitting acting following a “bad experience” on the set of a film she has not named.

27/08/2024

The pop-up performance included a flash mob choir and a backing band to which Ducrot performed his hit singles I’ll Be Waiting and Something I Can’t Afford

Singer Cian Ducrot surprised fans with an impromptu concert today in front of the Dublin Portal in the city centre.

27/08/2024

'Not only are there millions of legacy fans with enough disposable income to pay the extortionate ticket prices and still have enough left over for a new pair of adidas sambas, but Oasis have acquired new generations of fans in their absence, young followers eager to experience their Knebworth, their Maine Road,' Simon Bourke writes

“You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”

26/08/2024

'Back in 2009, I was deemed too young by my parents to attend the Slane gig. Heartbreak at 16. Sure look, I could wait to see Oasis live for the first time. The Gallagher brothers would be back in Ireland again. Little did I know what was to come just months later.'

It was the summer of 2009, and a 19-year-old I’d met on holiday was telling me in detail about the gig of a lifetime. He’d just been to Oasis at Slane Castle.

26/08/2024

Strictly Amy: Cancer and Me follows Strictly Come Dancing pro Amy Dowden during her breast cancer fight. It sees her face difficult decisions, as well as her return to the show she loves

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26/08/2024

Rumours have been unusually specific, proposing that the reunited supergroup will take over Heaton Park in Manchester and Wembley Stadium for long residencies next summer, to coincide with the 30th anniversary of their much-loved second album (What’s The Story) Morning Glory?.

Are Oasis getting back together? The music business rumour mill is abuzz with claims that estranged sibling superstars Noel and Liam Gallagher have come to some sort of rapprochement, with plans to reunite the hit Britpop band next year.

25/08/2024

The 20 authors have been selected by a team of judges

The New Voices: 20 Best New Irish Writers list, in association with the An Post Irish Book Awards, features 20 diverse and exciting Irish fiction authors, and is aimed at showcasing a new generation of writers who perfectly encapsulate the moment of celebration Irish writing is experiencing worldwid...

25/08/2024

Forget Tortured Poets, Carpenter is for free spirits

In the summer of 2023, ­former Disney Channel star Sabrina Carpenter stopped by a creperie ­outside Paris for breakfast. She noted everyone was drinking coffee before correcting herself. It wasn’t coffee – it was espresso. In that moment one of the biggest pop songs of the past several years w...

25/08/2024

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