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Derry Girls scoops three BAFTA nominations

Hit Channel 4 show, Derry Girls, has been nominated for numerous accolades at the upcoming BAFTA Awards. After a year full of multiple nominations and wins, including at the National Comedy Awards and the Broadcast Awards, the show is up for three ...

23 Mar 2023 at 15:57

Derry News

Derry's Lisa McGee wins Best Writer at BAFTAs

BAFTA last night announced the winners of the BAFTA Television Craft Awards 2023 at a ceremony in London, celebrating the very best behind-the-scenes television talent of 2022. Derry Girls’ creator and Derry native, Lisa McGee, scooped the award ...

24 Apr 2023 at 16:54

National News

All Quiet On The Western Front pulls ahead with six wins at Baftas

All Quiet On The Western Front has claimed its sixth award of the night at the Baftas, pulling ahead of The Banshees Of Inisherin which has four. The Netflix anti-war epic, directed by German filmmaker Edward Berger and based on the 1929 novel ...

19 Feb 2023 at 21:24

Arts & Entertainment

Barry Keoghan hopes Bafta success for Irish talent will encourage rising artists

Barry Keoghan has said the Bafta award success for Irish talent will encourage artists in the country to “send the scripts in and go for what they want to do”. The Irish actor, 30, picked up the best supporting actor prize for his role in The ...

19 Feb 2023 at 22:14

Northern Ireland

Daryl McCormack hails ‘Irish Baftas’ as he walks red carpet ahead of ceremony

Best actor nominee Daryl McCormack joked he was attending the “Irish Baftas” as he walked the red carpet at the annual event. Irish talent is particularly well-represented at this year’s ceremony with a quarter of all 24 acting nominations ...

19 Feb 2023 at 17:18

Arts & Entertainment

Irish film becomes early frontrunner at Bafta awards with 14 nominations

The Banshees Of Inisherin, the black comedy-drama written and directed by Oscar-winner Martin McDonagh and starring Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson, has become an early frontrunner at this year's Baftas after being longlisted in 14 ...

06 Jan 2023 at 15:46

Local News

BBC One's Repair Shop searches for fixes in Derry

BBC One’s primetime and BAFTA-winning show, The Repair Shop, is casting for a new series and is looking for contributors in Northern Ireland. Jay Blades and the team of experts are back and on the lookout for local people who have ...

20 May 2023 at 10:03

Local News

Derry Girls Lisa McGee joins university leadership programme

The author of Derry Girls, the head of the Northern Ireland Civil Service, a rugby star and a top business executive are set to inspire the next generation of leaders as part of a university project. Lisa McGee, Jayne Brady, ...

31 May 2023 at 10:23

Northern Ireland

Kneecap make light of ‘handy’ acting business after film earns six Bafta nods

Irish language rap trio Kneecap took a typically forthright swipe at the British establishment after a film about the Belfast band secured six Bafta nominations. Writer-director Rich Peppiatt’s film about the hip hop group ...

15 Jan 2025 at 14:32

Northern Ireland

Oscar-winning actor James Martin ‘cried his eyes out’ at MBE honour

Belfast Oscar-winning actor James Martin has told how he “cried his eyes out” after learning he was to be made an MBE in the New Year Honours List. Martin, who has Down’s syndrome, said he hoped the honour would inspire ...

29 Dec 2023 at 22:52

Northern Ireland

Kneecap director picks up Bafta for outstanding debut

Kneecap director and co-writer Rich Peppiatt has won outstanding debut by a British writer, director or producer at the Bafta film awards. The Irish-language film depicts the rise of the Belfast rap trio and has been ...

16 Feb 2025 at 21:39

Local News

Kneecap make light of ‘handy’ acting business after film earns six Bafta nods

15 Jan 2025 at 21:30

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