AS Joaquin Phoenix rose to the podium to collect his Academy Award for Best Actor, ears were peeled as the actor made his speech about inequality and our disconnect with the natural world.

The Oscars take place on Sunday and it seems like it’s Sam Mendes’ 1917 to lose what is proving to be a surprisingly straight forward best picture race.

Irish stars may not have featured in the awards at London’s BAFTAS.

If online posts are to be believed, I’ve reached the age of ‘invisibility’ to men. I’m not buying it. Not only do I still get catcalled, but I’m confident enough to like it, says Aileen O’Reilly.

That an American study has found straight women prefer dad bods (“an untoned and slightly plump male physique, especially one that is considered attractive”) to six packs and hard shiny abs comes as no great surprise.

Kerry star Jessie Buckley has been named one of Variety magazine’s ‘10 actors to Watch’ for 2019.

At the moment, my life revolves around the new book I’m writing. I have a copy of the editorial schedule taped on the wall in front of my computer — when the next draft is due for submission to the publisher, when the next round of edits will make their way back to me. Back and forth, on repeat for the next seven months.

After originally announcing new record i,i for the end of the month, Bon Iver took the music world by surprise with the digital release of the new album.

From movies to music, fashion to food, our writers pick the cultural highlights of summer.

According to the organisation's website, the parade will be a one-day event and will be followed by a flag raising ceremony.

They might just well be if US Vogue is anything to go by. Rowena Walsh meets the women behind Stripe + Stare.

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It comes as a joy - and even a little bit of a relief - when Pauline McLynn sits down for our interview and orders a proper pot of Irish breakfast tea.

If it’s any consolation to Manchester United supporters these days, the biggest and most gloried franchise in the world’s other leading team sport is in an even greater state of dysfunction.

Thessaly La Force meets Oscar-nominated Viggo Mortensen, the accomplished actor who has made his career by defining himself as everything a movie star isn’t

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) have picked Cork’s Chris Walley in the Bafta Breakthrough Brit awards, marking him out as one of the most promising actors this year.

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“So you’re Brad Pitt? That don’t impress me much” might be the reaction to the actor’s interior pieces for the Pitt-Pollaro range says Rose Martin.

Here are all the latest headlines this lunchtime.

An international campaign is encouraging people to go vegan in January. But is it healthy to cut out all animal-based foods, asks Sharon Ní Chonchúir.  

A portrait of the late John Montague by artist Colin Davidson will be unveiled in UCC today.

It didn’t take the hurlers of Dublin, Tipperary, Clare and Galway long to discover Boston’s list of priorities last Friday when they landed for the Fenway Classic Super 11s.

The Goop Lab, sprung from Gwyneth Paltrow’s website, in California takes interior design to a new level of affluence, writes Carol O’Callaghan.

Cathy Walsh is a choreographer and performer from Cork. She is the movement director for the current run of Dancing at Lughnasa at the Everyman in Cork.

The clean-up operation of Glastonbury Festival 2017 has begun as revellers return home from the five-day extravaganza.

From Glasto to Spain, there are a flock of festivals that could tempt you overseas in the coming months, writes Ed Power

Malick, eccentric and difficult film-maker or brilliant auteur with a profound vision? Discuss.

I can be sociable and outgoing but I require a great deal of time by myself in order to recharge, says Louise O’Neill.

Forbidden love is often ignited under the heat of the cameras, but it rarely lasts the course, writes Ed Power

Ireland’s last matchmaker, Willie Daly, is taking his unique talents to the high seas next week as he attempts to bring love to those taking a lavish Caribbean Cruise.

As the popcorn goes stale on another cinema-going year, film critic Damon Smith looks forward to the action-packed blockbusters, heartbreaking dramas, uproarious comedies and potential Oscar winners that will be lighting up the big screen over the next 12 months

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

An international opera company has one role left to fill in their production of La Boheme at the Helix in Dublin - a dog.