Colm Meaney as Ethan and Sally Field as Tova in ‘Remarkably Bright Creatures’. Photo: Diyah Pera/Netflix He is one of Ireland’s most recognised faces, having appeared in roles such as The Snapper, Star Trek and portraying the late Martin McGuinness in The Journey a decade ago, which earned him an Irish Film and Television Award … Read more
Another big winner of the night was, of course, Jessie Buckley, who was head to toe in Chanel. Kerry gal Buckley won the Best Actress Oscar. According to her make-up artist, Nina Park, the inspiration for Jessie’s look came from the striking pink and red tones of her dress. So, Park wanted her to have … Read more
I was born in London of Irish parents. My mum was also born in London, but her dad was from Indreabhán in Galway, and her mum was from near Thurles, in Tipperary. My grandad was a native Irish speaker. He was actually a twin. In the west of Ireland, whoever was born first got the … Read more
Ireland excels at a lot of things. Literature. Preachy rock stars. Potato-based snacks. But in television we have long punched below our weight: compare and contrast our history of underachievement on the small screen with the ambitious, cutting-edge TV produced by nations of a similar size, from Borgen (Denmark) to Wellington Paranormal (New Zealand). Still, … Read more
All Irish eyes may have been on best actress winner Jessie Buckley at the 98th Academy Awards, but actors Kerry Condon and Paul Mescal were there to keep her company. Mescal attended the carpet alongside girlfriend Gracie Abrams, daughter of film-maker JJ Abrams and CEO Katie McGrath. As well as that, Maggie O’Farrell stunned in … Read more
The 98th Annual Academy Awards ceremony took place on Sunday, March 15 in Hollywood – and it was a great night for the Irish. Here are some of the biggest moments you might have missed Jessie Buckley wins best actress Oscar for Hamnet The 98th Annual Academy Awards ceremony, now boasting a tidy three-hour runtime, … Read more
The 98th Academy Awards will take place in Los Angeles on Sunday ‘It’s just incredible’: Jessie Buckle’s proud parents on her historic Oscar bid When Jessie Buckley was a young girl growing up in Killarney, her dad, Tim, used to drive her to swimming practice at an “unearthly hour of the morning”. Now, as the … Read more
Actor Jessie Buckley has clarified that she is a “lover of cats” following a heated backlash from feline fans who were upset that she said she did not like them in a previous interview. Appearing on Jimmy Fallon’s US chat show on Thursday, Buckley said she even auditioned to be a cat once, and it … Read more
In Chloé Zhao’s Oscar-nominated Hamnet, Jessie Buckley plays a bereaved mother whose cathartic grief has reduced cinemagoers around the world to stunned silence. Many Buckley fans were stunned all over again when they learned that Ireland’s 2026 Oscar front-runner… isn’t all that keen on cats. What moggie madness is this? In a recently resurfaced interview … Read more
Jessie Buckley continued her near-unbroken run of triumph through awards season with a win for best film actress at the prestigious Actor Awards (formerly the Screen Actors Guild awards) at the Shrine Auditorium in an unseasonably baking Los Angeles on Sunday night. Nominated for her turn as a grieving Agnes Shakespeare in Chloé Zhao’s Hamnet, … Read more