After many years in the 12-step programme of Alcoholics Anonymous, James agrees to become the sponsor of newcomer Luka. On ...

Ballyduff Drama Group from County Waterford has been crowned winner of the 2025 RTÉ All-Ireland Drama Festival for their ...

In a cautious era, David Ireland is British playwriting’s most prominent provocateur. His ink-black comedies are full of oddly lovable bastards who bulldoze their way into delicate issues like ...

Playwright David Ireland has made a career out of saying the unsayable, which has in the past meant gags about rape, race and other such wearyingly ‘provocative’ transgressions. With The Fifth ...

A lot has changed since David Ireland’s The Fifth Step had its premiere at the Edinburgh International Festival last August. It’s still a play that teeters between comedy and dark horror, as it ...

Talent emerging from across the county battled it out against their national drama counterparts in Athlone over the weekend for top spots at the All-Ireland Drama Festival awards ceremony. This year’s ...

Woodside resident David Lobb, a 37-year military veteran, is to be grand marshal of Aiken's Memorial Day parade this year.

A look inside the rehearsal room with Jack Lowden and Martin Freeman has been released. The two are set to star in the West End premiere of David Ireland’s The Fifth Step. First seen last summer as ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. “I think I might be an incel,” announces Jack Lowden’s Luka at the beginning of The Fifth Step ...