Sinéad O’Connor waxwork pulled from Dublin museum after backlash
Irish singer’s brother speaks of shock at ‘hideous’ figure which ‘looked nothing like her’ Dublin’s wax museum is withdrawing a figure of Sinéad O’Connor amid...
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Thousands of Albanians honour author Ismail Kadare in Tirana
PM pays tribute to country’s best-known novelist as coffin is covered in national flag and flowers Thousands of Albanians have gathered in Tirana to pay...
African and Asian artists condemn ‘humiliating’ UK and EU visa refusals
‘Unfair’ rejection rates of up to 70% harm cultural diversity and create a ‘global apartheid’, say promoters and musicians Musicians, authors, producers and festival managers...
‘War how it truly is’: Ukrainian director turns accidental footage into a film
Oleh Sentsov’s film Real is 90 minutes of frontline action captured when he didn’t realise his camera was on In the new film by the...
‘I miss my solitude’: Booker winner Paul Lynch says he is a ‘social introvert’
Author of novel Prophet Song about an imagined fascist Ireland tells Hay audience he is not a political writer “I miss my solitude,” last year’s...
Thank you for the music: ABBA members get Swedish knighthoods
Agnetha, Benny, Björn and Anni-Frid become first Swedes to be knighted by their monarch for almost 50 years Abba have received one of the most...
Nicki Minaj says sorry to fans as Manchester gig cancelled after arrest
US rapper detained in Amsterdam on suspicion of ‘possessing soft drugs’ before being fined by Dutch police Nicki Minaj has offered her “deepest and most...
Portal installations linking Dublin to New York City reopen after shutdown
Two installations host a 24/7 live stream in both cities, but a small number of visitors initially abused the opportunity The live video portal linking...
Donald Trump biopic The Apprentice depicts him as a rapist
Ali Abbasi’s film, starring Sebastian Stan, presents a fictionalised account of an incident recorded in Ivana Trump’s 1990 divorce deposition, and since retracted Donald Trump...
