Frankie Ross is director of operations for next week’s Fastnet Film Festival in Schull, Co Cork.

More than 2,000 people took to the streets of Youghal, Co Cork, last night to pay tribute to the town’s newest and greatest double act since Moby Dick and Ahab.

John Daly looks back at the halcyon days of the Cork Film Festival in the 1950s and ’60s when the Rebel City became a Technicolor wonderland of enchantment and exoticism.

The landmark Kino building in Cork City has roared back to life with a stunning dragon mural.

The new owner of a landmark building in Cork has defended his decision to erase one of the city’s most iconic pieces of street art.

Waterford supporters trawling for the upper hand in next weekend’s All-Ireland hurling semi-final have resorted to very fishy tactics in Youghal with an audacious attack on a replica of Moby Dick.

One of Ireland’s great hotels has issued a public appeal for help to celebrate its 120th anniversary this summer.

Halloween is the ideal time to scare yourself with a good horror movie. Happy to oblige, Declan Burke lists the best horror movies of all time and, for good measure, throws in a list of the five most cursed film sets and five best scary movies for kids.  

MIMICRY, some say, is the greatest form of flattery.

Youghal’s Mary Linehan-Foley could claim a big scalp with a hard campaign on the ground, reports Sean O’Riordan

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We know this much so far about Harper Lee’s new book: Atticus Finch is 72 and suffering from rheumatoid arthritis; Scout is a grown woman who has a suitor most anxious to marry her.

Next week, Harper Lee will break a 55-year silence when she publishes her second ever book. Marjorie Brennan still finds inspiration in ‘To Kill a Mocking Bird’ and Harper Lee herself after all these years

Lying 15km across the bay to the north-east of San Francisco, Berkeley is a popular west coast draw for Irish college students on their J1 trip to the US.

Harper Lee’s publishers have offered readers a glimpse of her new novel as they unveiled the cover for the long-awaited follow-up to the bestselling To Kill A Mockingbird.

GEORGE Best is sitting up in a hotel bed with a gorgeous blonde beside him, when the waiter arrives with a bottle of vintage champagne. The waiter looks at the former soccer star and asks: “George, where did it all go wrong?”

Author Harper Lee has said she is “happy as hell” about the publication of a sequel to her bestseller To Kill A Mockingbird after concerns were raised about the extent of her involvement in the project.

GLOBAL coffee giant, Starbucks, is to open its first Cork City centre store, at no 39 Princes Street, a few doors away from the famed English Market.

Renowned American actress Laura Dern is the latest movie personality to become enraptured by the rugged grandeur of the Dingle Peninsula and the earthy charm of its people.

A trio of top hotels, in Cork City, Killarney, and Kilkenny, is being offered as a rare portfolio sale bundle, for €30m.

Your daily spoiler-free guide to what to look out for on the box.

A new documentary reveals how the only horse capable of beating the legendary Arkle was his stable mate, Flyingbolt but that they only had one little-known explosive race together around their home gallops.

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This week's pick of what's on the box.

The world’s oldest yacht club is venturing into uncharted waters tonight by hosting its first ever cinema screening.

The Gare St Lazare Players have brought their take on Moby Dick to its home town of New Bedford, says Gerry McCarthy

Meryl Streep wanted to capture the "special venom" people have towards Margaret Thatcher.

A NEW literary festival is on the horizon to celebrate an East Cork town’s link with the movie classic Moby Dick.

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Hide and Seek

“HE was an irascible old bugger, but I loved him.”

Jude Law has been named the hottest father in a film.

Jude Law has been named the “hottest film father” – beating competition from George Clooney, Will Smith and even Darth Vader.

I WISH to compliment Dan Buckley for his excellent article on Msgr Hugh O’Flaherty (‘The Vatican’s Elusive Pimpernel,” February 27).

Lauren Bacall has been given an honorary Oscar.

AN UNSUNG Irish war hero credited with saving thousands of lives is to be honoured with an international humanitarian award in his name.

THE thousands of Munster men who died in the first world war are to be honoured at separate events in Cork and Kerry.

TO be grateful for the simple things — that’s the philosophy of acclaimed actor Gabriel Byrne who says he’s trying to be happier in the second half of his life than he was in the first.

The late Hollywood legend Gregory Peck is to be honoured at the Dingle Film Festival in September.

Finally, the horror classic The Omen has just been remade, and you can compare it with the original film, starring Gregory Peck, and its sequels in The Omen Trilogy (Fox, €39.99).

The Omen star Pete Postlethwaite's brother died after drawing three sixes in a card game - while the actor was filming the horror remake.

AN IRISH director has taken his Hollywood remake of horror flick The Omen home after the Catholic Church threw his crew out of Croatia.

Actor Brock Peters, best known for his heartbreaking performance as the black man falsely accused of rape in the American movie To Kill A Mockingbird, has died at his home after battling pancreatic cancer.