Retirement Plan is a simple but beautifully realised animated short film about a man contemplating all the things he will do when he retires. He will reply to all those emails he should have replied to, read all the books that he had not read, learn to play the piano and travel to all the … Read more
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 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
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
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
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 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
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