The thousands of extras who auditioned this week for the next season of the hit TV series, Vikings, underlined further the vibrancy of the Irish film and television production as the industry forges ahead into one of its busiest summers.

A proposal has been submitted to turn the former Irish Glass Bottle site in Ringsend into a brand new Hollywood-style film studio.

The computer games market in Ireland was worth €248m last year according to research by Jamie McCormick, an industry specialist who complied the figures in a report, The Games Industry in Ireland 2012.

DISAPPOINTED by the failure of three promising screenplays to make it to the big screen, writer-director Terry McMahon did two things: First, he had the words “the art is in the completion. Begin,” tattooed onto his body.