This best of this week’s new films in Irish cinemas.

Good afternoon. Here’s everything you need to know from around the world this lunchtime.

The Monty Python crew will be back in cinemas in October for a special screening of the Holy Grail, with singing!

He has appeared alongside The Simpsons and Monty Python and now Professor Stephen Hawking is to play Glastonbury.

GREECE: A Greek court has convicted a dead man of stealing electricity from a power company, giving him a six-month suspended jail sentence. 

Health Minister Leo Varadkar says a second Fine Gael term in government would allow for a wide-ranging recovery including pay increases in the private and public sectors.

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ONLY after reading this collection of memoirs, reviews and prose by the poet Wendy Cope (b. 1945), did I realise that she has become a ‘national treasure’ in the UK.

Comedian Jack Whitehall has been crowned “king of comedy” for the third year running at the British Comedy Awards.

A live report in which Sky News journalist Colin Brazier was seen picking through the belongings of victims of the MH17 air disaster in Ukraine amounted to a “significant lapse of judgment”, according to Ofcom.

John Cleese is to return to the stage following this summer’s Monty Python reunion – with a one-man show based around his forthcoming memoir.

The remaining members of Monty Python will reunite on stage tonight for the last of their farewell shows which will be screened in cinemas around the world.

It might have been the comedy favourite of another generation but the Monty Python crew have still got it, according to some reviews of the first of a 10-night run at the O2 in London.

Bacon and egg and …

The remaining members of Monty Python are to reunite on stage tonight for the first time in decades.

Scientist Stephen Hawking is teaming up with Monty Python for their reunion shows.

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Comedy star and former Q actor John Cleese has criticised the later James Bond movies for their over-long action sequences and for sacrificing their British flavour to secure "big money" from Asia.

Rik Mayall wasn’t the only comedian to die too soon. Here are 10 more with some of their best gags, writes Dave Kenny.

Monty Python stars have recorded their own unofficial World Cup anthem for England’s campaign – with a new version of Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life.

Monty Python decided to reunite following a £800,000 legal bill.

Comic Billy Connolly has told how he hopes to raise a laugh from beyond the grave — with an interactive burial plot.

Comic Billy Connolly has told how he hopes to raise a laugh from beyond the grave – with an interactive burial plot.

Monty Python fans will be left disappointed after the comics said their UK reunion concerts will not lead to a wider world tour.

Graham Norton, the return of Sherlock and the Ronan O'Gara documentary feature among the highlights.

The remaining members of Monty Python have confirmed they will perform together at London’s O2 Arena more than 30 years after their last performance on stage.

Monty Python's Terry Jones hopes their reunion will pay off his mortgage.

IT’S the end of another long day on set and Jon Hamm sounds a little croaky. But while the hours might be proving arduous for the actor, his schedule’s nothing compared to that of his co-star Daniel Radcliffe.

A film producer won a British High Court fight today over royalties from Monty Python stage-show Spamalot.

Yes. Jonathan Miller muses on life at the Everyman in Cork, says Alan O’Riordan

Jack Dee is back on the road.

Jonathan deBurca Butler explores whether an Irish saint and Nostradamus really did predict the current pope

Series three of Love/Hate begins on RTÉ One tomorrow: left to right, Peter Coonan, Robbie Sheehan, Tom Vaughan Lawlor and Killian Scott.

SPIKE MILLIGAN, who died ten years ago today, is best remembered for his work as the main writer of the hit radio comedy series, The Goon Show, for his quick wit, and for his appearance at the 1994 British Comedy Awards, where he infamously called Prince Charles “the little grovelling bastard” during his acceptance of a Lifetime Achievement Award.

Terry Jones is aiming to reunite the surviving Monty Python team for his latest movie.

The film Unlawful Killing on the death of Diana and Dodi Al Fayed, won’t be shown in Britain because it is too libellous. Caroline Delaney dissects the controversy.

MONTY PYTHON’S Flying Circus, the group responsible for the launching the Ministry of Silly Walks and the Parrot Sketch, was yesterday celebrating 40 years since the comedy sketch show was first broadcast.

Four members of the ‘Monty Python’ comedy team will reunite this year for a one-off show.

The Monty Python team is re-uniting in a documentary to mark the 40th anniversary of the first broadcast of the show.

The famous Monty Python comedy 'The Life of Brian' is to be screened for the first time in an English holiday resort after a council ban was declared void, it was announced today.

BERTIE AHERN is to earn in excess of €60,000 a speech on the international lecture circuit, it emerged last night.

WHAT sort of choice is it that does not allow for an alternative view, in this case rejection of Lisbon?

BERTIE AHERN is finished.

FOLLOWING HSE plans to withdraw all cancer services north of Galway Bay, to close almost every A&E in the north-east, to decimate pharmacy services, to deny life-changing surgery to a crippled child in Co Cork and to lay off dozens of nurses from Tullamore hospital, I see Prof Brendan Drumm has had another brainwave: hospital patients should have their blood tests performed in their local post offices.