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- Four of Ireland's most renowned playwrights join with four celebrated actors in a series of 90-second dramas to mark the 50th Anniversary of the first Dublin Theatre Festival. Niall Toibin returns in his acclaimed portrayal of Brendan Behan, imagined by Patrick McCabe as living into old age.
- In 1987 Dublin was the focus of the world music scene. U2 were huge. Music scouts flocked to Ireland in their quest to find the next big thing. They didn't bargain on finding Aidan Walsh - comedian, entrepreneur and self-proclaimed master of the universe! Aidan Walsh first came to the nation's attention when he signed the quickest record deal in pop music history. All it took was a three-minute rendition of the Hokey Cokey. His rise as Ireland's unlikeliest pop star coupled with his painful search for family is a unique and bizarre story. From his troubled childhood in a Cork orphanage to his rise as Ireland's most eccentric underground character.
- Four of Ireland's most renowned playwrights join with four celebrated actors in a series of 90-second dramas to mark the 50th Anniversary of the first Dublin Theatre Festival. Hugh Leonard evokes the last moments in the theatre of an ageing playwright.
- Four of Ireland's most renowned playwrights join with four celebrated actors in a series of 90-second dramas to mark the 50th Anniversary of the first Dublin Theatre Festival. As Frank McGuinness's theatre cleaner, Bronagh Gallagher takes a jaundiced view of theatre as seen the morning after a performance, in the cool light of day.
- Four of Ireland's most renowned playwrights join with four celebrated actors in a series of 90-second dramas to mark the 50th Anniversary of the first Dublin Theatre Festival. Writer Tom Murphy plays on the thin line between the serious and the farcical, as Eileen Walsh's young actor performs in comedy while she rehearses for tragedy.
- As teenagers, Dublin band LIR dreamed of conquering the music world, only to see their hopes and dreams thwarted by a multitude of disasters and tragedies. Once feted by the music industry as 'the next U2', their downfall is only matched in grandeur by the scale of their ambition. Unlike the thousands of 'success stories' told in music documentaries, this is the other side of the coin, the story that will inevitably befall most bands.
- '7th Heaven' is a quirky little tale that tells the sad yet comic story of Patrick Devit who returns home to watch the National Lottery Draw. He has the first five numbers drawn out when fate intervenes and the electricity in his flat cuts out. We follow him on his madcap adventure to see if he has won or not.