Bumping into Brad Pitt at Fallon & Byrne will be a big moment in my life – The Irish Times

It’s a small world. But, as my friend Paul always remarks when anyone points this out: “I wouldn’t like to paint it.” Ireland is not so much small as tiny. A speck. In Ireland, it’s not six degrees of separation, it’s more like one. Or a half. You meet a random Irish person on a … Read more

How a throwaway joke landed three Irish stars in Taylor Swift’s new music video – The Journal

How a throwaway joke landed three Irish stars in Taylor Swift’s new music video  The Journal Gleeson, Murphy star in Taylor Swift’s new music video  RTE.ie Domhnall Gleeson, Graham Norton and Cillian Murphy star in new Taylor Swift music video  The Irish Times Two Cork men feature in Taylor Swift’s new Opalite music video  Cork Beo Graham Norton joins … Read more

Domhnall Gleeson, Graham Norton and Cillian Murphy star in new Taylor Swift music video – The Irish Times

Irish actor Domhnall Gleeson stars in Taylor Swift’s latest music video, which also features appearances from fellow countrymen Cillian Murphy and Graham Norton. The video for the US pop star’s song Opalite was released on the Apple Music and Spotify streaming platforms on Friday afternoon. Rumours of Gleeson’s participation in the project began after pictures … Read more

Dubliner says Oscar nomination for his short film is a ‘dream’ – The Irish Times

Dublin native John Kelly was prepared to use the disappointment of his animated film not securing a nomination for an Oscar as a learning curve for his two children. But that was not the case. On Thursday, he received the news that his film Retirement Plan was nominated for an Academy Award for best animated … Read more

‘I’ve been so lucky. It’s important you can acknowledge it. Otherwise you’re lying to yourself’ – The Irish Times

When Domhnall Gleeson was 14 he saved up for a school trip to Egypt to see the pyramids of Giza. He went with a group of classmates from Malahide Community School, and it’s not that the moment was wasted on him, but he says getting to see the pyramids again with “an adult brain”, for … Read more

Brendan Gleeson to return to the stage for the first time in 10 years in Conor McPherson’s play The Weir – The Irish Times

Brendan Gleeson is to act on stage for the first time in a decade in Dublin this August, in a new production of The Weir, the play written – and now, for the first time, directed – by Conor McPherson. After its four-week run at the 3Olympia Theatre ends, on September 6th, the show, which … Read more

Newstalk hung all the shows on the brand, the personality. That changed with Andrea Gilligan and myself – The Irish Times

Kieran Cuddihy and I are chatting in Taste cafe near the Newstalk studio. We talk briefly about how I’m neurotically using two different audio recorders. He can relate. “I was interviewing Domhnall Gleeson recently and I forgot to turn the recorder on,” he says. “Halfway through the interview I saw it and he saw me … Read more