PLAYING a robot is no mean feat.

BOY ERASED (15, 110 mins) Drama/Romance.

CINEMAS have sat empty for much of 2020 and who knows whether that can change in 2021, but there's certainly a slew of blockbusters waiting in the wings as soon as we can return to multiplexes.

TRIBALISM is a word that has become commonplace in 2020.

Send us a video of your choir and we'll share the best ones.

We've been sent this video of the Letterkenny Christmas Carol Trail which took place virtually this year.

Salwan Cartwright-Shamoon from Belfast has sent us a video of the song Christmas Love being performed. Salwan is completing a masters in vocal performance at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire and du...

Majestica A Christmas Carol WHAT do you get if you cross Iron Maiden, Danny Elfman and Charles Dickens? The most absurdly original album of 2020, namely Majestica's A Christmas Carol.

IAN Hislop, editor of satirical magazine Private Eye and team captain on political panel show Have I Got News For You, has every reason to be thoroughly pessimistic.

IN HIS youth, retired GP and author Owen Gallagher made three declarations to himself: he would never live in his native Glenavy; he would never become a doctor and he would never marry a Glenavy woman.

FICTION Ready Player Two by Ernest Cline is published in hardback by Century, priced £20 (ebook £9.

CHRISTMAS is a time of excess, and it's nice to be a bit naughty once a year.

Peter Liversidge at The MAC IT'S very impressive that The MAC has commissioned edgy English artist Peter Liversidge, whose CV includes work at Tate Modern, to produce a comment on our times.

A VISIT to the pantomime is as much a part of Christmas as decorating the tree and giving presents but sadly as the theatre doors remain closed this festive season due to Covid-19 restrictions, the sounds of children's laughter at the on-stage pantomime antics won't be heard this year.

IF relationships are like conversations, the centre stage marriage of Cheryl and Michael in Gary Mitchell's new audio play, Burnt Out, is a slanging match.

How do you unwind at the weekend? Working in the arts, you tend to work seven days a week.

DINNSEANCHAS Draperstown – Baile na Croise – townland of the cross Draperstown originally referred to the town of Moneymore, a village founded by the Drapers’ Company of London in ...

DURING Seachtain na Gaeilge 2021 le Energia, Fermanagh and Omagh District Council intends celebrating the Irish Language through local communities and taking a broader approach to the language to incl...

HOWDY to all you take-away fans and home cookers, pull up a chair to the Bluffer’s Guide to Irish. The Bluffer is starving. Tá ocras an domhain air - he is very hungry but have you notic...

In How the Irish Shaped Britain, a “provocative” new radio series, Irish journalist Fergal Keane explores the profound influence the Irish have had on its neighbouring island over many centuries. According to the makers of the three-part series starting at 8pm on Monday evening, “the Irish have deep roots in what is “British.” Robert McMillen listened to the first programme ...