Two of Ireland’s best-known actors, Michael Fassbender and Cillian Murphy, have been invited to join the prestigious list of entertainers who have an Oscars vote each year.

Michael Fassbender has told how his infamous training regime to turn into a muscle-bound Spartan for the film 300 used to make him feel physically ill.

Josef and Adele Fassbender may have raised a highly successful son, but they failed in one respect: they couldn’t dissuade him from becoming an actor.