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‘I don’t give a f*** if you’re insulted’ - Mrs Brown's Boys star Brendan O'Carroll blasts snowflakes

“Mrs Brown is outrageous. She gets away with stuff that I’d never f***ing get away with."

Irish Mirror

In this cheerful storybook city builder I just did the worst thing I've ever done

Fabledom is a city builder nestled inside a fairytale, and my tale just got pretty dark.

PC Gamer

Dublin man creates unique documentary on Mrs Brown's Boys and Barney the dinosaur

Thomas Hartigan, 24, is from Lucan in Dublin and he previously got his thesis signed by Brendan O'Carroll

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Maggie O’Farrell’s award-winning novel 'Hamnet' to be adapted for screen

Irish writer Maggie O’Farrell won the Women's Prize for Fiction 2020 and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction 2021 for her novel 'Hamnet'. And now, 'Hamnet' will be adapted for into a film by Oscar-winner Chloe Zhao.

The Times of India

Hamnet on stage: Maggie O’Farrell and Lolita Chakrabarti on adapting the hit novel for the RSC

O’Farrell’s novel about Shakespeare losing his young son to the plague struck a powerful chord in lockdown. She and Chakrabarti discuss class, place and loss in their theatre adaptation

The Guardian - UK

Family faces eviction for withholding rent as 'damp' council home is 'falling to pieces'

Marie McManus has been living in the damp-ridden property in Brixton Hill, South London, for the past five years while Lambeth Council fix her family's other home

Daily Mirror

Angry Midlothian resident says workers 'trampled her flowers and left pipes in her garden'

Marie Dufty had been left distraught after claiming that her pride and joy back garden was trampled over by contractors for Midlothian Council during roofing work being carried out next door.

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89 tributes, death and funeral notices from across Merseyside

Loved ones have paid tribute to those who have passed away in recent weeks

Liverpool Echo

The Scottish glass memorial dedicated to a young woman with a tragic history

The Wigtown Martyrs Monument in Stirling is one of the most unique and striking memorials in the country, dedicated to a young woman called Margaret Wilson who was sentenced to death.

Daily Record

Pacific Islands fear brain drain from Australia job scheme

While work schemes offer Pacific Islanders economic opportunities, critics say they exacerbate labour shortages at home.

Al Jazeera

Mrs Brown's Boys angers fans amid claims festive special ‘ruins Christmas again’

Dublin matriarch Agnes Brown returned once again, played by Brendan O’Carroll, but some tuning in claimed the episode was ‘unwatchable’.

Daily Record

Mrs Brown’s Boys Christmas special review: I tried to like it but it’s still worse than cranberry sauce and Whamageddon

The hackneyed sitcom tropes and weak lines just don’t work, even with a strong dose of Christmas cheer taken

The Independent UK

Mrs Brown's Boys Christmas and New Year specials: Everything you need to know

Fans favourites will be returning alongside O'Carroll, including Jennifer Gibney, Fiona Gibney, Danny O'Carroll and others.

Daily Record

Mrs Brown's Boys Christmas Special 2022 spoiler amid huge demand for live audience tickets

Brendan O'Carroll admitted it was a 'buzz' to think the show has become a Christmas telly staple.

Irish Mirror

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Brendan O'Carroll shares delight as 'over 35,000 requests made for tickets' ahead of Mrs Brown's Boys Christmas special

The Dublin star is also happy that the hit comedy show is returning with a full studio audience for the first time since before the Covid pandemic

Daily Record

Gatehouse's Doreen Storey takes a trip down memory lane in Galloway People

Her story takes her from the home of culture to the trial of her life

The Independent UK

We’ve never needed working-class stories like Shuggie Bain more

Douglas Stuart is adapting his Booker Prize-winning novel, set in a Glasgow scarred by Thatcherism, for the BBC. Thank heavens for that – the diet of wealth-obssessed TV like ‘The White Lotus’ and ‘The Crown’ is out of step with life in our cash-squeezed age, writes Jessie Thompson

Glasgow Live

BBC announces Shuggie Bain series as Glasgow best selling book to hit TV screens

The Douglas Stuart novel tells the heartbreaking tale of a mother-son relationship in working-class Glasgow back in the 1980s, the the youngster struggling to make it in a tough world.

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Daily Record

BBC announces Shuggie Bain TV series with screenplay by Douglas Stuart

Douglas Stuart, author of the 2020 Booker Prize-winning novel, is adapting his smash-hit novel set in Glasgow for BBC One and iPlayer.

The National (Scotland)

'When I feel lost I come back home': Douglas Stuart on Scots, class and Shuggie Bain

"ONE of the things I was pretty adamant about is not lessening the Scots or the Glaswegian dialect in the literature,” bestselling Scottish…

Evening Standard

Mary at Hampstead Theatre review: Rona Munro’s queen’s tale utterly fails to spark

This play about Mary Stuart draws juicy contemporary parallels but this talky and monotonous production is less than the sum of its parts

The Guardian - UK

Jennifer Lawrence’s best performances – ranked!

As talk of another Oscar grows for her performance in this year’s Causeway, we rate the versatile actor’s finest work

Daily Record

Tam Cowan: Bond baddie will be BBC boss who threatens series of Mrs Brown's Boys

"I was cheering all the way for my Radio Scotland colleague Kaye Adams on Strictly and was totally gutted when she was the first person voted off. "

Liverpool Echo

Mum-of-12 fears she'll never be able to afford to take kids on holiday abroad

Zoe Sullivan and her family need to move to a five-bedroom home but can't save any money to do so

Zenger

No Break For Mom Of 12 Because Of Increasing Costs And Higher Bills

The family had hoped to be able to take the kids on vacation, but savings are now being spent on groceries and bills.

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