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Gail Bell

Reporter · GB

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  1. Article · Sep 11, 2026 · By Gail Bell

    ‘The scale and standard of TradFest just keeps getting better and better’: Joanie Madden (opens the original)

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    A STREET is named after her in the Bronx, New York – Joanie Madden and Cherish the Ladies St, no less – and she has been listed in Irish America Magazine’s ‘top 100 Irish Americans’, but none of that matters when your next big gig is the Irish driving test. Back in her ‘second home’ in Miltown Malbay in Co Clare, the irrepressible leader of one of the most successful Irish trad bands in history was determined to finally get her Irish driving licence ahead of the Grammy-nominated gr

  2. Article · Sep 2, 2026 · By Gail Bell

    Guildford Four: Paddy Armstrong’s incredible story returns to Belfast stage (opens the original)

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    THE horrific ordeal of Paddy Armstrong – one of the wrongly convicted Guildford Four – is still a cautionary tale for our times, says the actor soon to bring his story back into focus on the Belfast stage. Dublin-based Don Wycherley, who has been wowing audiences across Ireland and England with one-man show, The Life and Times of Paddy Armstrong, believes such shocking miscarriages of justice could still happen today. “This was 1974, a time when the Irish were scared to be Irish and afraid

  3. Article · Aug 26, 2026 · By Gail Bell

    Belfast theatre star Lucia McLaughlin makes West End history as Les Misérables’ first Irish Cosette (opens the original)

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    AS Belfast rising theatre star, Lucia McLaughlin, looked out at the audience sitting rapt in their seats at London’s Sondheim theatre, she took a deep breath and let herself be swept up in the moment. Somewhere, among the hundreds of faces all looking in her direction, was her mother and father - “and about 30” relatives and friends who had booked tickets to share this moment with her: her West End debut as Cosette – believed to be the show’s first Irish Cosette - in Cameron Mackintosh

  4. Article · Aug 24, 2026 · By Gail Bell

    Anna-Jane Casey on becoming Judy Garland: ‘This isn’t pretty Judy – it’s the woman behind the legend’ (opens the original)

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    WITH a surname like ‘Casey’, musical theatre star Anna-Jane Casey feels it’s about time she had an Irish premiere and now with Judy – End of the Rainbow, the dreams that she dared to dream - to borrow a line from the Wizard of Oz’s star’s famous tune - really are coming true. The Lancashire actor and musical theatre veteran was recently in Dublin for a promotional photo shoot, emerging from her makeover as a glammed up ‘Judy’ for the show being resurrected by Irish theatre produc

  5. Article · Aug 19, 2026 · By Gail Bell

    NI Opera’s Carmen star Noah Stewart on violence, racism and his extraordinary journey to the stage (opens the original)

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    WHEN Carmen – another ‘first’ for NI Opera’s annual showcase – opens in September, New York operatic star, Noah Stewart, will be more aware than ever of the importance of his performance. For this brand-new staging – viewed through a ‘contemporary lens’ - he must carefully portray the violent unravelling of Don Jose: a role he has played more than any other in his stellar career to date, while being acutely aware of the growing outcry over violence against women. With this in min

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