I grew up in Finglas in Dublin, but I don’t often go back there. We ended up in Phibsborough in my teens, so general northside is home. I don’t go home as much as I would like to, so when I do, I’m back in Phibsborough or I’m hanging around town. I went to university … Read more
A charmer on social media called me an unrepeatable name after I expressed misgivings over the finale of Lisa McGee’s Derry Girls, which, at the very last moment, lost its footing and was swept away in a deluge of saccharine. I suspect I shall have to don a hard hat all over again with the … Read more
In a small, cramped room in Belfast a group of people are huddled in the cold, watching live footage of three women entering the same hotel room again and again. This is not some sort of law-enforcement sting operation but the set of How to Get to Heaven from Belfast, Lisa McGee’s excellent new comedy … Read more
The Lincoln Lawyer From Thursday, February 5th, Netflix Mickey Haller is back in the driving seat – or the back seat if you want to be literal about it – for a new batch of legal cases. In this fourth series based on the bestselling novels by Michael Connelly – in this case it’s on … Read more
A few months ago, Chris Walley devoured the autobiography of one of theatre’s original young offenders, Anthony Hopkins. While the slapstick physical humour with which Walley is associated is a long way from Oscar-winning Hopkins parts such as Hannibal Lecter, the Cork-born star was fascinated to read the memoirs of a fellow Celt who had … Read more
Beef I watched the first series of this thinking it would be about the delicious foodstuff namechecked by the title. It was, in fact, an enjoyably dark and deranged comedy about two characters, played by Ali Wong and Steven Yeun, who, after a road-rage incident, spiral into an obsessive feud, aka what elderly millennials call … Read more