With Ireland’s biggest comedy festival kicking off in the capital next week, some of the biggest names on the circuit today are gearing up to get down to business.

We’ve all had broken mobile phones, but do any of you know the best place to get them fixed?

The ongoing boom in Irish comedy has two of our most popular comedians laughing all the way to the bank.

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Aisling Bea is a performer in the old vaudeville tradition, a Lucille Ball for modern times — she writes, she acts and she does stand-up.

COMEDIENNE Maeve Higgins decamped to New York at the end of January, having spent the previous year living in London, and the dozen before that in Dublin.

Irish comedian Dylan Moran has signed a deal with ABC studios in the US to create, write, and star in the pilot episode of a planned new series.

Comedian Ardal O’Hanlon has revealed he has returned to Channel 4 to take on a starring role in a sitcom.

Al Murray’s comic alter ego is an oafish and outspoken landlord of questionable opinions, says Richard Fitzpatrick