Here's why Julian Glover asked for his scheming Grand Maester Pycelle character to go when he did on HBO's Game of Thrones.

Tuesday next, March 25, is the Feast of the Annunciation, the day when the angel Gabriel greeted a startled teenager in ...

Tadgh Hambly returns to put on a man of the match display as Enniskillen defeat Randalstown in a convincing 35-7 victory.

Who would ever want to be king? There are those of us who consider the role of King Lear – ­William Shakespeare’s cranky and, ...

Read our review of King Lear at Dublin's Gate Theatre. This take on Shakespeare’s formidable human tragedy features an impressive central performance from Conleth Hill ...

In another familiar modern-day parallel, Conleth Hill’s Old Testament-styled Lear is a capricious disrupter, one minute an impish miscreant, the next a petulant, cruel tyrant, who can switch ...

Conleth Hill is King Lear at The Gate, Dublin The Franco-Irish Literary Festival will welcome writers in both the English and Irish languages, together with writers of the wider francophone world ...

Chris Wasser on King Lear: The Bard’s tetchiest monarch still has the power to inspire, as Conleth Hill’s turn testifies Artist and Dervish musician Brian McDonagh: ‘I saw so many jobs of ...

Chris Wasser on King Lear: The Bard’s tetchiest monarch still has the power to inspire, as Conleth Hill’s turn testifies Artist and Dervish musician Brian McDonagh: ‘I saw so many jobs of ...

As the king, Conleth Hill, hitting the right age after decades of varied work on stage and screen, is at his best when the storm is up and the brain is befuddled. If you were the wind you’d do ...

Stuart Graham and Conleth Hill. Photo: Ros Kavanagh We don’t get many productions of Shakespeare in Dublin, so the Gate tackling King Lear is most welcome. It is the story of how an old king ...