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Irish reels to film reels: Michael Flatley’s side-step into cinema

The Irish dance legend has decided to try his hand at making, and starring in, a feature-length spy thriller. And the carefully choreographed build-up ahead of its release demonstrates that he hasn’t forgotten how to put on a good show

The Profile: How Brian Cody has remained top dog among the Cats

Can Kilkenny’s stern, stoic and intensely private godfather of hurling bring the Liam MacCarthy Cup home for the first time since 2015?

Meet Ray Dalio, the corporate contrarian who’s ‘shorting Europe’

The founder of Bridgewater is the archetypal hedge fund creator: white, well-educated and idiosyncratic. Right now, the firm is shorting on some of Europe’s biggest companies, among them Adidas and Siemens, Bayer, BNP Paribas and Sanofi. But why?

The spirited billionaire: Bill Goldring’s Sazerac and its latest Irish whiskey play

The owner of US drinks giant Sazerac, which owns a portfolio of brands from Southern Comfort to Paddy, has just bought the Lough Gill Distillery in Sligo for a reported $70 million

Why America’s gun lobby leader Wayne LaPierre is under fire

The vice-president of the National Rifle Association is fighting to keep his job with a long-simmering controversy over the running of the organisation exacerbated by public anger over the latest school massacre in Texas

How ‘impostor syndrome’ led to billionaire Mike Cannon-Brookes becoming an accidental activist

The tech billionaire called Elon Musk out on his promise to solve Australia’s energy crisis via an industrial-scale battery facility. Since then he has doubled down, and become an environmental activist like no other

The last real movie star: How Tom Cruise has endured despite gaffe-prone lapses

The Hollywood legend, who turns 60 next month, has come blasting back with a sequel to the 1986 blockbuster Top Gun – but remains an enigma even after four decades in the business

Anthony Albanese drew on his blue-collar roots to become Australia’s PM, but now comes the hard part

Albanese, the leader of the Labor Party, won over voters by appealing to those who wanted incremental changes to address climate change

The Profile: Can Piers Morgan become the Talk of the town once again?

The tabloid veteran and television presenter is back in favour with media mogul Rupert Murdoch, who has just hired him to front the new British channel TalkTV

Not so happy pear: The foodie twins caused a social media storm last week, but the health of their business empire is a more pressing concern

Dave and Steve Flynn, founders of the Happy Pear food and cookbook company, have faced a backlash after incorrectly claiming in a social media post that eating mushrooms reduces breast cancer risk

The Profile: How Imran Khan got bowled out of office

The former cricketing legend was ousted as Pakistan’s prime minister earlier this month by a vote of no confidence, amid allegations of a US-assisted conspiracy – but he has vowed to fight ‘till the last ball’

Profile: Tiger Woods returns to familiar turf as a changed man

After years of injuries and accidents, and fighting his own personal demons, the superstar golfer is back at the US Masters in Augusta, the site of his greatest triumphs, looking once more for redemption

Volodymyr Zelenskyy: How a sitcom star became a unifying leader

The former actor won a surprising landslide presidential victory in 2019 and has been catapulted onto the world stage as he leads Ukraine through a full-scale invasion by Russian forces

Feeling the blues: Can Dessie Farrell lift Dublin out of its slump?

It’s a strange kind of crisis that puts pressure on a manager for failing to win a football All-Ireland, but the collapse in Dublin’s form has been abrupt and shocking, and as a consequence the pressure is building on Dessie Farrell and his team.

Playing a Blinder: How the role of a Birmingham gangster gained Cillian Murphy international acclaim

The Cork-born actor has found huge international success on both screen and stage. Now he’s back for the final series of the epic TV drama that first made his name

Profile: Why tech billionaire Peter Thiel is so determined to gain control of the political sphere

The Silicon Valley mogul is stepping down from the board of Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta to focus on his political interests

Profile: From Downton to The Gilded Age, Julian Fellowes’ own background has allowed him to expertly detail the lives of the upper classes

The Oscar-winning screenwriter has consistently drawn on his own aristocratic upbringing for huge hits, but his latest outing has received a cooler reception

Gary Neville profile: How the former right-back has moved to the left wing

The former Manchester United defender is weighing up a move away from the comfort of the Sky Sports studio to the rough and tumble of British politics

Jeremy Irons profile: How the English actor is hoping to alter the narrative on ‘the man who was fooled by Hitler’

Over his long career, Irons has been lauded for tackling a wide variety of roles. Now, he’s playing Neville Chamberlain, the British prime minister, in Munich - The Edge of War

Liz Truss profile: Can a not ‘very diplomatic’ prime ministerial hopeful get Brexit done?

Boris Johnson’s Brexit minister is increasingly being touted as the prime contender to succeed him at 10 Downing Street