He played a (peaky) blinder. Soon to feature in a cinema near you in the Ron Howard blockbuster In the Heart of the Sea, a film that will round off what’s been a great 2015 for Cillian Murphy. On the small screen, he played the lead role in Peaky Blinders, a magnificent BBC production (also […]

11 years ago

Can’t really argue with this one. If there’s ever been a better year for Irish actors in recent memory then we can’t recall it. Domhnall Gleeson is currently wowing Star Wars fans around the world with his performance in The Force Awakens. Jack Reynor is making waves at home and abroad with bigger things to […]

11 years ago

That new belt of his is pretty stylish too. Conor McGregor had such a memorable 2015 that he was nominated in three separate Men of the Year categories. Having been narrowly been pipped by Hozier to the main award and by the Irish Special Olympics Team to the Sports Star award, he was bound to […]

11 years ago

It was tight. Very tight. It was hard to narrow down our list of nominees for Funnyman of the Year to just five… and then subsequently four after The Rubberbandits were removed at their own request for their own reasons. In the end, less than 30 votes of a total of over 7,600 separated our […]

11 years ago

How very appropriate at this time of year. Most of the categories in the JOE Men of the Year awards were designed to recognise men that we all know and admire for their exploits in the worlds of sport, music, entertainment and other areas in Irish life. So much of our content on JOE, however, […]

11 years ago

It’s hard to argue with 86 medals. That’s the haul that the Irish Special Olympics team brought home from this year’s World Games in Los Angeles, a truly remarkable performance from everyone involved. That medal haul included 26 gold medals, 29 silver medals and 31 bronze medals, with 16 of those medals collected on the […]

11 years ago