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Ancestors review – messy but moving ghostly drama about the Aids crisis

Saipan standout Éanna Hardwicke is a soulful gay man looking for a missing friend in a striking yet muddled debut

The Guardian - US

No Ordinary Heist review – Eddie Marsan stars in Belfast true-crime thriller about massive bank robbery

Marsan is an odd choice for the role of an uptight bank manager compelled to cooperate with robbers in this underpowered take on a real-life bank raid in 2004

The Guardian - UK

The Playboy of the Western World: National Theatre staging ensures Irish play remains essential viewing

A revival of a beloved and notorious Irish play from 1907, Catriona McLaughlin’s production of The Playboy of the Western World treats J.M Synge’s play as a work with urgent contemporary force, creating a story with resonance in 2026.

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Saipan: Roy Keane World Cup drama is a highly entertaining slice of Irish football history

In the summer of 2002, a dispute inside the Republic of Ireland’s football camp spiralled into a national controversy. Few sporting rows have lodged themselves in the Irish imagination as stubbornly as Keane v McCarthy in Saipan, culminating in Keane’s departure from the Irish World Cup squad.

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Roy Keane actor had to ‘wean’ himself off the pundit’s content for Saipan film

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Actor Éanna Hardwicke is stepping where many would fear to tread — into the boots of Roy Keane

The Irish actor has played villains, starred in Normal People and loves stepping onto a stage. He chats to Vicky Jessop about his flourishing career

Evening Standard

Éanna Hardwicke: ‘A lot of TV fetishises people who do appalling things’

RISING STARS: The Irish rising star tells Tom Murray about playing one of football’s hardest men, Roy Keane, in ‘Saipan’, the perils of acting opposite one of his heroes, Steve Coogan, and the state of true crime TV

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‘The emotion you get from the game is insane’: the Roy Keane bust-up film leading a new type of football movie

Saipan, about Keane’s infamous World Cup row with manager Mick McCarthy, has become a hit film in its native Ireland – as it opens in the UK screenwriter Paul Fraser explains how he aimed to avoid the mistakes of the past

The Guardian - UK

Saipan review – Roy Keane and Mick McCarthy’s epic spat becomes amusing state-of-the-nation psychodrama

Éanna Hardwick and Steve Coogan star as furious Keane and his luckless manager McCarthy in this retelling of the Man Utd star’s infamous 2002 walkout

The Guardian - UK

Beyond Keane’s stick-it-up-your-bollocks, there isn’t much else to Saipan

Why is the film of Ireland’s 2002 World Cup falling-out not a documentary but a drama that takes liberties with events?

The Guardian - UK

Nicola Coughlan issues health update during West End play run

The Bridgerton favourite is currently appearing at the National Theatre with former Derry Girls co-star Siobhán McSweeney

Evening Standard

‘We are no longer apologising’: Éanna Hardwicke on Ireland’s cultural confidence and what it’s like to play Roy Keane

Currently on stage in a play that provoked riots, the rising Irish actor is also stepping into Keane’s boots to replay a notorious footballing feud. But, he says, his country feels more empowered than ever before

The Guardian - UK

The Playboy of the Western World: A strong turn from Nicola Coughlan

3/5 The Bridgerton star plays a feisty barmaid in this revival of JM Synge’s 1907 comedy that once caused riots

Evening Standard

Saipan review – football scandal makes for thrilling big-screen drama

Steve Coogan and a knockout Éanna Hardwicke take on Mick McCarthy and Roy Keane in this involving workplace drama about a 2002 tabloid storm

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Saipan film to reopen old wounds between Roy Keane and Mick McCarthy ultras

Drama-biopic starring Steve Coogan will reignite a row that split Irish football fans but there are good signs for its artistic merit

WhatToWatch

Exclusive interview: Éanna Hardwicke on starring in A Ghost Story For Christmas: Woman of Stone

A Ghost Story For Christmas: Woman of Stone stars Éanna Hardwicke as a Victorian newly-wed who gets the fright of his life.

The Guardian - UK

A Ghost Story for Christmas: Woman of Stone – far too good to only exist as festive TV

Mark Gatiss’s one-off spooky tale starring Mawaan Rizwan, Monica Dolan and Éanna Hardwicke is a total treat. Can we have much more like this please?

The Independent UK

Normal People actor to narrate Sally Rooney’s next novel

Hardwicke starred alongside Paul Mescal and Daisy Edgar-Jones in the 2020 drama miniseries

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Evening Standard

BAFTA TV Awards 2024: who will win, and who should win?

The ES team pick who they think will be successful on the night, and who may be walking away disappointed

The Guardian - UK

The Doll Factory review – this twisty period drama is sumptuously atmospheric

Paramount’s adaptation of a best-selling novel is full of great performances and slow-burning tension. It’s a solid slab of Victoriana that keeps you guessing

Evening Standard

The Doll Factory on Paramount+ review: Dickens-lite fairy tale fails to cast a spell

Despite compelling central performances, it's all just a bit... sanitised

WhatToWatch

The Doll Factory: release date, cast, plot, trailer, interviews and everything you need to know

The Doll Factory is a tale of obsession in Victorian times that stars Esmé Creed-Miles, Mirren Mack, Éanna Hardwicke and George Webster.

Evening Standard

The real-life stories behind gripping true-crime series The Sixth Commandment

We unpack the stories behind the hit BBC series

The Independent UK

The Sixth Commandment writer Sarah Phelps reacts to horrifying Ben Field detail

Extent of Field’s horrible crimes came to light in finale of BBC’s true-crime drama

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The Sixth Commandment ending explained

The Sixth Commandment dramatizes what happened to Peter Farquhar and Ann Moore-Martin at the hands of Ben Field.

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