Gareth Hanrahan is garnering quite a reputation as a fantasy author. He tells Ed Power how some of his novels’ settings are inspired by old Cork.

[quote]"We choose a charity partner every year and we try to focus on those charities working with children or the vulnerable."[/quote]

Legendary 1980s band, Madness, have given the thumbs up to a new music video which uses one of their biggest hits to showcase an inspiring Down Syndrome project in Ireland.

Two of the joys of golf are its longevity and its reach. Anyone can play the game and at just about any age. There are no barriers and with little need for physical prowess, it is attractive to all sections of society.

Whatever IT is, he’s got it. With his slicked back hair and smart evening jacket, he may be a bit Don Draper of Mad Men from the waist up, but he’s still all denim ‘n’ Elvis from the belt buckle down.

Energetic, joyful and powerful singers, check out the Live At The Marquee audience in the selfie vid Bryan Adams said he'd be uploading to his Instagram page after the show.

Kind-hearted electricians have wired a pioneering farm project for adults with Down Syndrome for the future.

Thinking of the cinema this week. Declan Burke reviews  Fences, Hidden Figures and The Great Wall.

The groundbreaking Diarmuid Gavin-backed Field of Dreams project for young adults with Down Syndrome is poised to become a reality.

Celebrity garden designer Diarmuid Gavin has agreed to work his magic on a farm project for adults with Down Syndrome which has just secured planning.

There are impressive casts galore in this week's releases, which are sure to entertain. Most intriguing is the latest imagining of the classic tale of The Jungle Book ahead Andy Serkis' take on it in 2018.

KEVIN Costner is having trouble hearing. “I play a lot of rock and roll. You’ll have to speak up,” explains the California native in what can only be described as a cowboy twang.

Rarely have I heard a film title as bad as Robin Hood: Origins but that's certainly not going to stop it being made.

Field of Dreams was on TV last week. Too difficult to believe, too impossible to love, it had us thinking not about Páirc Uí Chaoimh, Casement Park or a new Leinster venue close to the M50 – “build it and they will come” – but just how precious hurling is to a lot of us as baseball is to people here in America.

Boyhood, Michael Keaton and Julianne Moore were among the top winners at the 20th annual Critics’ Choice Movie Awards, winning best picture and director, actor and actress.

Kevin Costner received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Critics' Choice Movie Awards last night.

Your spoiler-free guide to tonight's television.

Netflix have finally let us know when the Breaking Bad spin-off Better Call Saul will be hitting our screens - and it's due in February next year.

Your spoiler free guide to tonight's telly.

A husband is suspected of foul play after his wife disappears in Gone Girl; Harry Connick Jr and Morgan Freeman star in the family-friendly sequel Dolphin Tale 2; a legendary vampire rises from the grave in the blood-sucking fantasy Dracula Untold, and Kevin Costner stars in American football yarn Draft Day.

I welcome the appointment of former President Mary Robinson as the UN special envoy for climate change.

There is a scene towards the end of Oliver Stone’s movie JFK where Kevin Costner, playing the role of District Attorney Jim Garrison, walks, defeated, out of the courthouse, telling his son that he will have to wait at least 30 years before finding out if his theory about the pPresident’s assassination was correct.

This week, a terminally ill teenager (Shailene Woodley) experiences the pangs of love for the first time in The Fault In Our Stars, Clint Eastwood directs the film version of the hit stage musical Jersey Boys and Kevin Costner slays to survive in the action thriller 3 Days to Kill.

They pride themselves up north in getting straight to the point and saying what they think, so let’s not beat about the bush — Jerome Garces got it right.

Johnny Depp showed off a diamond engagement ring that he called a “chick’s ring” — indirectly confirming rumours of his engagement to actress Amber Heard.

Hollywood stars have paid tribute to Oscar-winning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman, who was found dead in his apartment with what officials said was a needle in his arm.

Keira Knightley has said working with Kenneth Branagh on ‘Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit’ felt very “schizophrenic” as he flitted between Russian villain and polite British director.

Keira Knightley has said she signed up to new thriller 'Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit' because she was tired of playing the tragic heroine.

Actors who want to work on sophisticated projects are finding them in television and not film, says Billy Bob Thornton.

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s a messiah.

In the 35 years since Christopher Reeve took flight as Superman, the iconic hero has been laid to rest in a best-selling DC Comics storyline, endured teen angst in the long-running TV series ‘Smallville’, and stumbled in the 2006 blockbuster ‘Superman Returns’.

A 'Man of Steel' sequel is already in the works.

As Eugene McGee wiped away a tear after Saturday’s black card vote, it all became clear: labour of love, as it was for him, it still had taken its toll on the Football Review Committee (FRC) chairman.

ANYONE who has ever known anyone with an Irish wolfhound declares an Irish connection for St Patrick’s Day.

Author Nicholas Sparks is the king of slushy modern romance, tugging heartstrings with his emotionally wrought tales of love lost and found.

Pneumonia stricken Jennifer Lawrence picked up the Best Actress in a Motion Picture gong at the Screen Actors Guild Awards in Los Angeles on Sunday.

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From the second of the Hunger Games’ movies to a new Die Hard instalment, 2013 promises much in top films, writes John Daly

Christopher Nolan has revealed making a Superman movie is harder than bringing Batman to life on the big screen.

Homeland, which puts the battle against terrorism on American soil, was honoured as best drama series at the Emmys and earned trophies for stars Claire Danes and Damian Lewis.

Kevin Costner has landed a part in new movie 'Jack Ryan'.

Kevin Costner has been approached to star in two new movies.

The Bourne Trilogy has topped a poll of film fans to find the best conspiracy theory movies.

A US jury has rejected claims that Kevin Costner and his business partner duped fellow actor Stephen Baldwin and a friend out of millions of dollars from a BP contract for using oil clean-up devices in the aftermath of the 2010 Gulf of Mexico spill.

A lawyer for Kevin Costner told a court his fame was the only reason fellow Hollywood actor Stephen Baldwin and another person were suing him over their investments in an oil clean-up device tried out after BP’s spill in the Gulf of Mexico.