Oscar-winning director, Martin McDonagh, is set to make a return to the big screen with a new film about a friendship gone sour in Ireland.

Belinda Carlisle may have cancelled her Cork show on Wednesday due to a throat infection, but there are plenty more opportunities on the way for fans of 20th-century popular music.

From parallel universes to prison cells- here's some of what you can expect from Netflix this July:

The Cannes Film Festival (May 14 to 25) unveiled its roster earlier in the week

Sometimes musical worlds collide, writes Ellie O’Byrne

Looking for a holiday with a difference? Award-winning travel writer Isabel Conway rounds up the hottest travel trends and destinations for the year ahead.

England’s King George III went mad in 1776, and nearly 220 years had to pass, and cinema had to be invented, before his ordeal, and his son’s impatient ambitions, inspired Alan Bennett to write his wonderful 1994 film script about the Regency Crisis.

Our regular contributors select their highlights of the year.

Right, here we go. Time to give the checklist a final once-over.

Des O’Driscoll shares the latest news from the world of entertainment.

Pop on the kettle, here are this morning's headlines. 

Brendan Gleeson tells Esther McCarthy about the fun he had working on ‘Paddington 2’, and his mixed feelings about Cork GAA.

People all across the country were sipping on coffee this morning in aid of Ireland's Biggest Coffee Morning for Hospice Together with Bewley's.

As the film IT scares a whole new generation, Ed Power looks at why Stephen King’s stories are as popular as ever

Octagon Films, the Wicklow-based production company behind dramas like Love/Hate and The Borgias, has repaid all of the start-up money advanced to it by a German investor 15 years ago.

A legendary warrior, also one of Celtic mythology’s greatest romantic figures, is buried near the graves of IRA fighters in a little-known cemetery in West Cork, a book to be published this month reveals.

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Des O’Driscoll shares his top top entertainment news

Diane Keaton stars alongside Brendan Gleeson in her new film, and she tells Esther McCarthy that other Irish people in her life have included her beloved grandmother, Grammie Hall

Stephen Graham’s character continues to search for evidence in real-life murder drama Little Boy Blue at 9pm on ITV on Monday.

After making impressive videos for the likes of the Chemical Brothers, Adam Smith has united Michael Fassbender and Brendan Gleeson in his feature debut on Irish Travellers, writes Ed Power

Find out what this week’s must-see movie titles are. Here are he top three films you don’t want to miss this week, writes Declan Burke.

Theresa Lowe will be re-reacting the famous Irish quiz show, Where in the World.

Rory’s parents made sure that he became a reader.

Vanessa Redgrave, Nathalie Baye, Kerry Fox, Ross Noble, Anna Friel, and Ben Wheatley are among the stars joining Irish talents Jack Reynor, Moe Dunford, Cillian Murphy, John Butler, and Aiden Gillen on the red carpet.

The winner of a record-breaking seven awards at the Golden Globe Awards, La La Land (PG) stars Emma Stone as Mia, an aspiring actress and playwright who is working as a barista on a film studio lot when she meets Sebastian (Ryan Gosling), a jazz pianist hoping for a big break.

Don’t worry folks, Brendan Gleeson saves the day as he plays the character of Thomas Coughlin.

Assassin's Creed starring Michael Fassbender is in Irish cinemas on the 1st of January 2017. It's an epic story of a man who dives into the world of his ancestor in the 15th century to learn the secrets of the Creed.

Imagine a fishing trawler with nets bigger than Croke Park. Imagine that it can catch more in a day than many Irish trawlers can net in a month. Imagine the devastation that such a capacity may have, not alone for fish stocks, but for coastal communities and their livelihoods.

Right now the second largest super trawler in the world is fishing off the Irish coast. It drags a net bigger than a football field and can process over 250 tonnes of fish a day.

The zombie film credited with turning Cillian Murphy into a Hollywood star has been named the greatest horror movie of the 21st century.

Here’s a briefing on some of the stories and issues highlighted on irishexaminer.com today

Ben Affleck is a busy fellow. Not only is he popping up as Batman in all of DCs movies this year, he's also hard at working on a solo Bat movie due out in 2018.

AT THE western fringes of Co Galway at the hamlet of Claddaghduff an old road leads down to a beach. 

Liam Neeson has become the highest-grossing Irish actor of all time raking in almost $3bn (€2.69bn) in ticket sales at the US box office.

Michael Fassbender is the lead in the first ever Assassin's Creed film and this new behind the scenes video explains a little of what's going on in the time travelling sci-fi blockbuster.

We don’t own our natural resources under Article 10 of the Constitution. It needs to be repealed, but is there anyone with the bottle to take it on, asks Eddie Hobbs

Euronext is making a bid to develop a dairy market but Ireland could have leading role in exchange modelled on CME.

Ireland is ideally placed to develop Europe’s first dairy sector futures and options index, creating a model for EU-wide adoption, agri-food industry leaders have claimed.

After impressing with The Pipe, Risteard Ó Domhnaill’s new film focuses on the fishing industry, writes Ellie O’Byrne

The director of The Atlantic, a new Brendan Gleeson-narrated documentary about the struggle for resources in three Atlantic communities, has been launched with screenings on piers in Irish fishing villages.

Love/Hate actor John Connors features in I Am Traveller on RTÉ2 on Thursday.