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IRISH ACTRESS FIONA Shaw took home a TV Bafta last night for her role in Killing Eve, the BBC show that also proved to be the big winner during yesterday’s awards show.
Shaw won the award after being named as best supporting actress for her role in the spy thriller series.
Accepting the award, Shaw said the role was “probably the greatest pleasure of my life”.
The show took home two other awards, best actress for Jodie Comer and best drama series, after it had garnered the most nominations with 14.
Killing Eve’s inclusion was only allowed after Bafta bent the rules slightly, allowing the show to participate despite being broadcast first on BBC America.
While Shaw represented some Irish success at the awards, there was disappointment for Derry Girls which lost out to Sky Atlantic show Sally4Ever in the best scripted comedy category.
Derry Girls losing out on the award was questioned by some critics but actress Nicola Coughlan joked that the cast were not too disappointed.
Elsewhere in the awards, Benedict Cumberbatch won best actor for his role in drama Patrick Melrose, which was also named best mini-series.
I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here and Britain’s Got Talent both won in entertainment categories and Ben Whishaw won the best supporting actor award for his role in A Very English Scandal.
Another notable win was in the factual series category, where Louis Theroux’s Altered States provided the documentary-maker with his first Bafta in 18 years.
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No mention of our 3rd world broadband infrastructure.
Was thinking the same thing myself. I live in Denmark and was amazed at the prices and standard of broadband back home. Pay €20 a month here for 20mb unlimited at home and €17 for 3g with 15gb cap on my ipad. Why is it so expensive in Ireland?
Why is everything so expensive here?nUPC offer the only real broadband here and their speeds are never as advertised, but still far better than the rest.
Any chance for a few Bob for my mens centre? We deal with men with all sort of mental issues and social problems. We’ve had lots of our finding cut. But alas up pops Enda the other day opening one in the west saying its a problem that needs dressing. Then why cut our funding?
Yea yea so which Barber do you go to…..
Amazing isn’t? Like peas in a pod.
No where where they offer short back and sides! It’s kinda uncanny….
Where is he going to “put the road down to Wexford”? Obviously it has to be put down so that the end is in Wexford but where will he put the start? Surely it depends from where one is travelling?
More haphazard planning from this government!
He means a section of the N11 that has stalled because of difficulty securing PPP funding
Eh, thanks Dave!
We need a good Wexford builder with time on his hands. Let me think…..
What about the cork to limerick road
No extra votes for FFg/Labour on that road, sorry.
Is there no end to the amount of spin out of Noonan. Doesn’t he grasp that like the boy who cried wolf, the public don’t believe him anymore.
Ironically your analogy implies that the deal will come in the end, just like the wolf.
Go Mikey Noonan. ;)
Sort out the traffic in Galway, a tram system for the city along with cork and an underground for congested Dublin
I’d like to teach the world to sing …………….
Jesus truly wept.
Ah…thats nice of him!
Shiny heads with shiny ideas , I feelnall loved up.
Noonan said that the money would be used to:
” Separate the traffic at Newland’s Cross, to put the road down to Wexford, and the other one is Gort up to Tuam, and then there are bundles of schools, and then there are community health centres, we have a list”. That’s right Michael, build more roads and leave the children’s education till later. At least if you build the roads now there’s more chance you’ll be voted in at the next election as opposed to considering the future generation’s welfare!
Burp….oh excuse me
Sounds positive
He’s getting more funding for rendition ( read emigration) flights outta Ireland to reduce the dole queues
It is amazing that Ireland isn’t learning anything.
You know what the real problem is? the €400 bn Bank Debt that was ignored by Noonan and Fine Gael.
It is aggravating to watch. Over and over. DUMB.
More funding? A poison chalice more like!
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