Alan O’Riordan reviews Ulysses and Tribes.

3/5

Abbey Theatre

Graepel’s Factory, Kinsale

A factory in Kinsale has proved to be the perfect location to put on the Irish premiere of a typically energetic play by Enda Walsh, writes Alan O’Riordan

This is already showing signs of being a good year for film production, with a number of high-profile projects scheduled to begin filming around the country.

I’m a bit of a dreamer. I have a lot of ideas, but few of them ever leave my head and get turned into action.

Moone Boy returned to the town of Boyle in Roscommon yesterday as hometown hero Chris O’Dowd began filming the third series of his sitcom.

Investments costs in expanding into new British and European markets resulted in Ireland’s best-known talent agency recording a loss last year.

Grabbers (15A) sounds like a bad Paddy Irishman joke, but Jon Wright’s offbeat tale of a remote Irish island besieged by alien invaders that can only be repulsed by copious amounts of booze is in fact a nifty variation on the B-movie horror flick.

From film to fashion, movies to music, food to travel, our critics reveal their Hot 100 choices for the summer ahead.

A COMPANY that operates an agency representing some of Ireland’s best known film and stage actors, writers and comedians went into the red last year.

Work is under way on writer-director John Carney’s feature Zonad around Wicklow.

The moon came out on cue at the height of the theatrical lunacy at the Naval base in Haulbowline last night.