The councillor who tabled a motion in the chamber of Athlone Town Council requesting the removal of a piece of artwork from a gallery in the town has said that the piece is "offensive to those who served in the Defence Forces".

Turner Prize-winning artist Steve McQueen recreates the hunger strikes of the early ‘80s in the Maze Prison just outside of Belfast in this harrowing narrative feature film debut.

NEXT Saturday, almost a decade since the lifting of Section 31 which banned Sinn Féin deputies from the airwaves, the proceedings of the party's Árd Fheis will be carried live on national television.