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Exclusive First trailer for Brenda Fricker film The Swallow

Take a look at the first trailer for The Swallow, a new feature film by Tadhg O'Sullivan starring Academy Award winner Brenda Fricker.

Movies • 04 Sep

Brendan Gleeson is among the stars with new films at the festival

Dublin International Film Festival reveals full line-up

Brendan Gleeson, Jared Harris, Juliet Stevenson, Steve McQueen, Isabelle Huppert, and Maxine Peake are among the guests confirmed for the Dublin International Film Festival, which runs from 22 February to 2 March.

Movies • 22 Jan 24

Brenda Fricker: "I took the challenge on to see if I could learn it - and I did learn it!"

Fricker: Audiences are always being underestimated

Oscar winner Brenda Fricker has said she enjoyed the challenge of learning a seven-page monologue for a new TV show and says she thinks "the audience is always being underestimated".

Television • 17 Sep 22

What's on? 10 top TV and streaming tips for Friday

There's another busy night on The Late Late Show, Dara O Briain's back with the last run of Mock the Week, a new BBC dramedy called Am I Being Unreasonable? and the final of this year's Celebrity MasterChef . . .

Television • 20 Sep 22

Conleth Hill as Sergeant PJ Collins and Siobhán McSweeney as Bríd Riordan in Holding Photos: Conor Horgan/ITV

Best of Irish as Graham Norton's Holding starts filming

The ITV/Virgin Media Television adaptation of the Graham Norton bestseller Holding has begun filming in West Cork with Brenda Fricker, Conleth Hill, Charlene McKenna, Pauline McLynn and Siobhán McSweeney among the cast.

Television • 29 Jul 21

Joe Pesci and Brenda Fricker at
the 63rd Annual Academy Awards on March 25, 1991 at Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Ron Galella

Brenda Fricker reduced Joe Pesci to tears at the Oscars

Oscar-winning Irish actress Brenda Fricker has recalled her awkward backstage encounter with Al Pacino and how her attempts to comfort Joe Pesci at the Academy Awards in the early 1990s resulted in the Goodfellas star breaking down in tears.

Movies • 17 Jan 21

What's on? 10 top telly tips for Friday January 15

Tonight's top TV tips include new Marvel show Wandavision, Brenda Fricker on The Late Late Show, new episodes of The Simpsons, and new reality show Bling Empire . . .

Television • 15 Jan 21

Brenda Fricker - "I threw that into the swimming pool in Renvyle Hotel in the west of Ireland in Connemara!"

Brenda Fricker's Oscar ended up in a pool in Connemara

Brenda Fricker told Ryan Tubridy on Friday night's Late Late Show that her Oscar once ended up in a swimming pool in Connemara - and she went in after it.

Movies • 11 Jan 20

The Late Late Show, Friday nights on RTÉ One at 9.35pm

Late Late shares its Friday line-up

This week's Late Late Show line-up has been revealed, with Brenda Fricker, Richard Corrigan and Kodaline among the guests joining Ryan Tubridy on the couch on Friday.

Television • 10 Jan 20

Left - right: Cedric Gibbons, English-born Irish citizen Daniel Day Lewis and Saoirse Ronan

Top TEN Irish Oscar stars

All eyes were on Hollywood today as Irish movies and talent picked up several well deserved nominations. So what about Ireland's track record at the Academy Awards? Here's our top TEN Irish Oscar stars of all time.

oscars • 24 Jan 17

Killian Scott and Peter Coonan in Get Up and Go one of the new films premiering at this year's Galway Film Fleadh

Galway Film Fleadh programme announced

New films starring Love/Hate actors Killian Scott and Peter Coonan, a new feature from the director of Small Engine Repair, and an Irish/US co-production starring Michael Shannon are among the films to be premiered at this year's Galway Film Fleadh.

Entertainment • 26 Jun 14

Fricker delayed retirement for one film

The only Irish actress to ever win an Oscar, Brenda Fricker has told Miriam O'Callaghan on The John Murray Show why she delayed retirement for one last, special film.

Entertainment • 13 Sep 13

Brenda Fricker