Irish mammies have been portrayed on screens as domestic masters or martyrs for too long. Times have changed, writes Ed Power.

Mrs Brown's Boys stars Brendan O’Carroll and Jennifer Gibney have revealed more details about their upcoming musical.

“Despite what the Liverpool manager said, football isn’t more important than life and death. Life is much more important.”

That’s nice…the runaway global success of Brendan O’Carroll’s foul mouthed mammy, Agnes Browne resulted in Brendan O’Carroll and his wife, Jennifer Gibney sharing a dividend windfall of €1.3m last year.

Three stars of the television sitcom Mrs Brown’s Boys diverted more than £2m (€2.26m) to a tax-avoidance scheme, according to the Paradise Papers leak that has revealed the offshore investments of numerous high-profile celebrities.

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“He was really keen to keep the same camp character but played by a new actor,”

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Former president Mary Robinson said the reluctance of some LGBT leaders to be photographed at Áras an Uachtaráin, when she signed the bill decriminalising homosexuality in 1993, showed her how frightening it was to be gay in Ireland.

Stephen Graham’s character continues to search for evidence in real-life murder drama Little Boy Blue at 9pm on ITV on Monday.

“Brendan is a genius. He’s brilliant,”

Mrs Brown’s Boys star Brendan O’Carroll has said he “almost killed Margaret Thatcher” when he mixed up salt and sugar while working as a waiter.

Alison Williams and Lena Dunham bow out in the final episode of Girls at 10pm on Monday on Sky Atlantic.

"I would love nothing more than to raise a glass of Guinness (I hear it's vegan now!) with you when that day arrives."

There's no-one like him.

The brand new entertainment chat show will see characters from the popular sitcom, such as Buster and Winnie, invite celebrities and members of the public into the famous home.

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The runaway success of Brendan O’Carroll’s alter ego Agnes Brown last year resulted in accumulated profits at his main firm climbing to more than €1.6m.

Des O’Driscoll looks through the highlights of what’s on the telly this week. 

Mrs Brown’s Boys star Rory Cowan has vowed to keep using Twitter despite being falsely accused of being a paedophile on the social network.

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We’re not gonna lie, this has made our day.

Mrs Brown’s Boys star Rory Cowan is angry at God and would like to tell him he’s a “sick prick” following his mother’s diagnosis with dementia.

MUSIC NEWS: Didn’t make it to one of the 22 London shows? At least Kate Bush is releasing the resultant live album on November 22. 

A shortlist of nominees in 23 strongly contested television categories for the Irish Film and Television Academy Awards has been unveiled.

Mrs Brown’s Boys has beaten The Office and Gavin & Stacey to be named best British sitcom of the 21st century.

Mrs Brown’s Boys gets a one-off live special tonight at 9.20pm on RTE One.

Eilish O’Carroll tells Ellie O'Byrne about her role in new musical comedy Elvis is my Daddy,  why she thinks Mrs Brown's Boys has made her brother a modern Shakespeare, and her life post-marriage equality referendum

Brendan O’Carroll is set to tell the story of the 1916 Rising as experienced by members of his family for a one-off BBC television programme which will air on RTÉ this weekend, and on BBC2 next week.

The Late Late Show host Ryan Tubridy wants to bring back the People in Need Telethon to RTÉ to help ease what he calls the Strumpet City-type poverty in Ireland.

Liveline presenter Joe Duffy’s triplet children will turn 21 on Easter Monday 2016, and he tells them that no matter how tough the recession was it was nothing like Ireland in 1916.

There are two maxims in the entertainment industry: one says there’s no business like show business and the other insists that the show must go on.