She was the real-life mammy, who her devoted son Brendan O’Carroll credits with providing the inspiration for his most famous comic character.

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Best known for her role in Mrs Brown’s Boys, Eilish O’Carroll is enjoying a new lease of life in her 60s as she embraces her past heartaches and sexuality, says Margaret Jennings.

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

Tommy Barker visits the lush green countryside home of Mrs Brown’s Boys’ Eilish O’Carroll, all down to Winnie McGoogan’s winning ways.

Good films and a great atmosphere contributed to another success in Schull, writes Ellie O’Byrne

Women over 60 are having a ‘moment’ and it’s not a senior one. More confidence, more energy and they couldn’t care less what you think. 

Opera will be to the fore in the list of top-class entertainment by the Everyman after the Cork theatre unveiled its spring and early summer schedule.

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The Late Late Toy Show RTÉ One, 9.35pm - Ryan Tubridy hosts the ‘Late Late Toy Show’ on Friday.

As if on cue, the sun broke through just as the March for Marriage came to a halt outside the shut Department of Justice.

The sister of funnyman Brendan O’Carroll has told of her regret that it took her 10 years to admit to her two sons that she was a lesbian.

Dublin Gay Theatre Festival is for everyone, with plays in venues across the city, says Colette Sheridan

THEY must be mad, said comedian Brendan Carroll when the BBC gave the green light for a third series of Mrs Brown’s Boys.