The world’s largest indoor theme park is set to open in Dubai this month to lure back some of the tourists and residents who often flee abroad during the scorching desert summer.

RTÉ has appointed Dee Forbes as successor to outgoing director-general Noel Curran.

Christine Cavanaugh, a prolific voice actress who brought to life characters including Babe the pig, has died aged 51.

A Kilkenny animator has realised a lifelong ambition by joining the writing staff of hit US comedy South Park.

Netflix is to air original television programming from Dreamworks Animation in a deal described as a major coup for both companies.

A year after his cartoons hit the web, Jason Sullivan has big career plans, he tells Carl Dixon.

Have you noticed the level of vitriol aimed at various Irish people who sit in the pigeon holes marked “property developers” and “bankers” recently?

The dream sequence currently being enjoyed by Irish animation looks set to continue after two Dublin cartoon companies brought home gongs from the Children’s Bafta awards in London.

From Oscar nods to BAFTA nominations, Irish animation is going through a golden age.

Presenter Richard Hammond has been nominated for a Bafta for his Blast Lab children’s TV show.

The Taoiseach Brian Cowen has said that bemoaning the economic slowdown in Ireland will turn it into a "self-fulfilling prophecy".

'Star Wars' creator George Lucas has thrilled fans by announcing his upcoming spin-off TV series 'Clone Wars' will be preceded by a feature-length pilot movie to be released in cinemas.

Several illuminated electronic devices planted at bridges and other spots scared Boston, and briefly disrupted the traffic and subway service, in what turned out to be a US publicity campaign for a late-night cable television cartoon.

CHILDHOOD is being stunted by parents who push their children too hard to excel at school and other prestige activities, according to a new report.

Heavy rockers Metallica will appear in an episode of the hit US TV show The Simpsons in September.

Britney Spears didn’t release an album of new material this year, but the new mum is still Number 1 on Yahoo’s annual list of the most-searched for terms on the internet.

A saucy chocolate ad which was banned from children’s TV has fallen foul of regulators – after a bungle meant it was screened on kids’ channels.