Nicola Coughlan

Paul Mescal and Nicola Coughlan hit the after party as Irish stars celebrate the Baftas

If there’s one thing Irish people have perfected, it’s the after party. Fittingly, the parties after the Baftas on Sunday night were attended by some of Ireland’s brightest stars.

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How Nicola Coughlan made red-carpet dressing exciting again

It is easy to pinpoint the moment when Nicola Coughlan first appeared on the style set’s radar.

Richard Quinn on designing Derry Girls star Nicola Coughlan’s Met Gala showstopper: ‘We wanted to give her some drama on the stairs’

Designer Richard Quinn deserves a holiday after a string of back-to-back career highlights, and the 32-year-old cannot wait to spend it in Ireland. “I’m going to Donegal for a week. My parents have a house in Rathmullan, so it’s literally up in the hills of Donegal,” says Quinn.

New York Met Gala 2022: Nicola Coughlan, Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley among Irish stars on red carpet

Oscar-nominated Jessie Buckley, Bridgerton and Derry Girls star Nicola Coughlan and actor and style icon Paul Mescal were among the Irish who graced New York’s Met Gala with their presence last night.

Bridgerton star Nicola Coughlan misses premiere after being 'struck down with Miss Rona'

Irish actress Nicola Coughlan was forced to miss the Bridgerton premiere after testing positive for Covid-19.

'I'm like an elderly aunt who is just happy to be invited' – Bridgerton and Derry Girls' Nicola Coughlan on her incredible rise to fame

When the first series of Bridgerton launched on Christmas Day 2020, Nicola Coughlan was at home with her family in Galway. She hadn’t seen her fellow cast members since the previous February, and was vaguely nervous about whether Netflix’s mega-budget, Shonda Rhimes-produced period drama would even find an audience. “I was like, ‘I don’t know if anyone’s gonna watch it’, because you get the fear; you just don’t know,” she recalls. “And then, on Stephen’s Day, people start messaging you and you’re like, ‘OK…’ And then it was number one in Turkey, number one in Colombia, number one in Brazil. It just doesn’t feel real, because it all happened in lockdown and everything was happening behind a screen.”

Why Nicola Coughlan believes ‘being famous is like being a dog on the Tube’

Bridgerton star Nicola Coughlan has described the intensity of fame as akin to “being a dog on the Tube”.

From Gaga in Gucci to Ruth Negga in vintage, here are 21 looks that defined 2021

The past 12 months have been a rollercoaster for fashion, as stars sought to amplify their at-home looks for virtual red carpets, then brought out the big guns when in-person events finally returned.

Kim Kardashian ‘freaking out’ that Irish actress Nicola Coughlan has invited her to a Bridgerton fitting

Kim Kardashian said she is “freaking out” that Irish actress Nicola Coughlan has invited her to a Bridgerton fitting.

Nicola Coughlan hits back at podcast host for calling her the ‘fat girl in Bridgerton’

A podcast host said she won’t apologise for calling Nicola Coughlan “fat” after the Derry Girls star hit back at the host for referring to her as the “fat girl in Bridgerton”.

'I ended up fast-forwarding through them' - Irish actress Nicola Coughlan on watching Bridgerton sex scenes with her mother

Bridgerton star Nicola Coughlan has revealed she skipped through the raunchy drama’s sex scenes while watching with her mother.

'They want to reduce women to 'Oh you look like this in a dress'' - Derry Girls' Nicola Coughlan on BAFTA dress criticism

Derry Girls star Nicola Coughlan put the controversy around a British tabloid criticising her dress well and truly to bed as she said: "They want to reduce women" to what they wear.

Epic return: 1.8 million tune in to 'Derry Girls'

Smash-hit comedy 'Derry Girls' made a triumphant return to TV screens on Tuesday night, with a massive 1.8 million people on average tuning into Channel 4 for the second-season opener.

Derry Girls returns on a high, with hope, hilarity, and some lovely wee Protestant boys

After a poignant finale that had fans reaching for the Kleenex and a comforting cream horn, Lisa McGee’s (Raw, London Irish) Derry Girls returned to our screens tonight.

Nineties nostalgia to that Derry dialect - 9 reasons why Derry Girls is a bona fide hit

Last year, on Thursday, January 4, Channel 4 launched what would become one of their most popular comedies to date. All anyone could talk about was Derry Girls... ‘Are you watching Derry Girls?’ ‘You must watch Derry Girls!’ ‘It’s got Tommy Tiernan as the dad! Tommy Tiernan!’

'What date of birth did I say?' - Derry Girls' Nicola re-enacts Nadine Coyle's famous Popstars passport gaffe she used to get her audition

Derry Girls' star Nicola Coughlan recounted how a now-famous clip of Nadine Coyle helped her to be cast in the Channel 4 series.