#simon-delaney

#simon-delaney

I think the rather eye-watering curiosity as to my sexual preferences... well, I wasn't expecting that! Not sexuality, you understand - that was understood - but my preferences within that sexuality framework.

John Slattery, 63, moved to an apartment on Bank Street in the West Village after marrying the actress Talia Balsam in 1998. At the time, he had established himself as a character actor.

"I haven't heard him sing yet," Flannery confesses, in answer to the burning question, when we sit down after a rehearsal in Nuns Island theatre in Galway.

Michael Lyster's reaction to any serious discussion about himself would be swift and direct: 'None of that old rubbish - throw it in the bin.' This reflects his disdain for self-importance.

This was a very small plot of land. He was a tenant farmer, so it wasn't his. He didn't have money, and he needed to move on because it wasn't working; probably not enough to eat, couldn't sustain. So, he left and went to America, and here I am a couple of generations later.

GK Barry, also known as Grace Keeling, is a prominent TikTok star who gained fame during the Covid-19 pandemic, amassing over 4.1 million followers by 2024.

For the past four weeks, 11 performers and 20 writers have been spending every weekday together in this very building, hashing out premises for skits, workshopping each other's material and finding the alchemy, as cast member and standup Ayoade Bamgboye puts it. For another, actor and TikToker Jack Shep, it's been like comedy boarding school.

Describing himself as where underground journalist Nardwuar (disarmingly well researched) meets NPR legend Terry Gross (sensitive, direct) meets late talkshow host Dick Cavett (intellectual, sophisticated), he is a freakishly intuitive listener. The way you construct the narrative of my life is so true that it's just a little startling, actor Michelle Williams told him in 2023.

I remember seeing it in drama school. I remember being so profoundly moved by it. I remember being so frightened by the performances in terms of seeing both sides to the thing that I think for most of us is, the most alive thing in our life, which is these, like, romantic relationships and the kind of inception of those things and the death of those things.

I went through a period in my 20s where I read all of Jim Thompson and all of those writers. I just went through and through and through all of that stuff, so I was pretty well-versed in the medium and the genre. I've never really done a day-to-day procedural before, but we balance it out with the relationship stuff that keeps it grounded and keeps it interesting for me to do.

Former winger is based in London with his young family these days, but his ties to the game remain tightly bound

A romcom fanatic, Foxx didn't quite get the quaint four-bedroom apartment in Bloomsbury he assumed he'd land when he moved to London, but he did, at least, get the guy: a tall, fit rugby lad, just his type, he tells us. Yet after several years of sort of bliss, sort of reluctant mothering on Foxx's part, the Julia Roberts meet-cute fantasy crumbled.

He plays Cathy's drunk but generous, cruel yet humorous father in a part that could easily have drifted into the background. But he makes such an impression that the Guardian's Peter Bradshaw reckons he pretty much pinches the whole film.

In a recent feature by Niamh Horan in this paper, Sarah McInerney said that as an ­interviewer, "holding back gets you so much more than going in studs first". Coming from the latest Morning Ireland (RTÉ1, weekdays, 7am) co-host, this was a tad troubling for fans who had for long regarded her adversarial approach as an outstanding feature.

Apocket dynamo of a man who seemed to bounce as he walked along, Frank Dunlop will be remembered for many outstanding and remarkable achievements, but most notably as the founding director of the Young Vic in 1969 and as a controversial director of the Edinburgh international festival from 1983 to 1991. He was a key member of Laurence Olivier's National Theatre at the Old Vic, which he joined in 1967 as an associate director with a determination to initiate a young people's programme;

A legend, Seán was an iconic figure in Irish education, culture and traditional music who had an extraordinary impact on Irish music and song,

The podcast will be later in the year, and it'll be an in-depth dive into people's footballing and personal lives, he continues. It'll be a podcast with a twist. I can't tell you what that twist is at the moment, but it *will* be a podcast with a twist. The best features, fun and footballing quizzes, straight to your inbox every week.

Taking a helicopter to Royal Ascot. That is one of the poshest things I have done. I became aware of how posh it was when I started calming down and realised I wasn't going to fall out of it. There's a scene in which you spit an hors d'oeuvre squarely at Katherine Waterston. How many takes did you need to get it right? Thirty-three. But that's because I asked for 20 more just because I was enjoying it.

Eddie O'Sullivan says he was "shocked" by some of Andy Farrell's post-match comments, when he bemoaned his Ireland side's "lack of intent" in the 36-14 defeat to France in the opening game of the 2026 Six Nations.

If broadcasting talent can be compared to furniture, they've been shifting it around in RTÉ and Newstalk like they were running an Ikea distribution centre. Another piece of the furniture was set down in the Newstalk studio this morning, when Claire Byrne moved back to her old radio home on The Claire Byrne Show (Newstalk, weekdays, 9am-12noon), replacing Pat Kenny.

When Darragh Ennis first got the call to apply to become a Chaser on ITV's hit show The Chase, he figured it was a prank. "I thought it was my friends who were arranging some sort of wind-up. But no, it was one of the producers," he says. Ennis first appeared on The Chase as a contestant in 2017. He had been on ITV's Rebound previously. He came second and missed out on the cash prize.

"Well, I have to say we've been overwhelmed by texts coming in from listeners, but I won't read them all out because my late father used to quote the proverb: 'Self-praise is no praise'. "But on the other hand, he used to also say: 'If you want to be a somebody, you've got to bang, bang, bang on the drum'. Bit confusing for a young lad. "I will read, and I have been reading the texts that are coming in, and to be quite honest, I'm a bit overwhelmed. But the time has come to thank a few people."

Netflix is continuing to double down on podcasts, with the streaming service's announcement that it has hired talent to host two original shows for its platform.

From Gemma Collins' 'I'm claustrophobic Darren!' to Jessie Wallace's delivery of Kat Slater's infamous '... YES I AM!' quote, the huns of Britain know how to make a defining TV moment - and a meme. Now, with hun-dreds of such TV moments to choose from, delivered by a plethora of small-time gay icons, the voting British public have declared who they believe to be the biggest hun in TV history. And no, it's not Natalie Cassidy.