Actor and director Adrian Dunbar showcased an additional talent whilst on the Late Late Show last night- singing.

This week's Late Late Show is choc-full of entertainment.

GIG WISE: Some extra tickets went on sale this morning for the Spice Girls at Croke Park in May.

Line of Duty has been the best cop show of recent years, and fans are eagerly anticipating the return of AC-12 on Sunday, writes Georgia Humphreys

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RTÉ have announced their new season will feature brand new drama and comedy as well as the return of some old favourites.

Some of the world’s biggest names in Hollywood are currently filming on these shores as a wave of movie and TV productions get underway.

Dunsland House’s 50 acres can be bought in four lots, including 14 with main house, says Tommy Barker.

Denise McCormack, Aidan O’Mahony and Aoibhín Garrihy have made it through to the final of Dancing With The Stars. Tune into RTÉ One at 6.30pm on Sunday to find out who wins the trophy.

THE wait is almost over for fans of Line Of Duty — and series four is set to be the best yet, promises actress Vicky McClure.

The Guards is a new series on RTÉ Two looking at life behind the scenes for gardaí in Dublin. It airs at 9.55pm on Tuesday night.

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I’m pretty chilled out. The thing about being an actor is, at the end of the day, it’s just a job.

A new TV documentary on Brendan Behan attempts to separate the man from the myth, writes Richard Fitzpatrick

Fresh from enjoying an acclaimed run off-Broadway, Janet Behan’s play Brendan at the Chelsea makes its Dublin debut at Project Arts Centre next week. Produced by Belfast’s Lyric Theatre, the play stars Adrian Dunbar as writer Brendan Behan.

Nobel poet laureate Seamus Heaney has been remembered as one of Ireland’s finest literary minds following his death after a short illness.

President Michael D Higgins has paid tribute to Seamus Heaney on the news of his death saying the poet's contribution “to the republics of letters, conscience, and humanity was immense”.

THE second Happy Days International Beckett Festival, devoted to Irish literary giant, Samuel Beckett, is on this week in Enniskillen. Beckett lived in the Fermanagh town during his teenage years, when he was a boarding student at Portora Royal School.

As he readies a tour of Brian Friel’s classic play, Adrian Dunbar is adamant it doesn’t need any heavy-handed directorial interventions, writes Pádraic Killeen.

Britain's Queen Elizabeth II will shake hands with Sinn Féin’s Martin McGuinness today in a gesture that will herald a major milestone in Anglo-Irish relations.

Mayor of London Boris Johnson insists he has no regrets over “offensive” comments he made in relation to a St Patrick’s Day event.

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THE streets of Dublin rang out last night to demands that the Israeli ambassador be expelled and trade sanctions be imposed against the mideast state as about 2,000 people marched through the capital to protest against yesterday’s aid flotilla attack.

Filming has started in Belfast of 'Mo', a political drama based on the life of Mo Mowlam, the former Northern Ireland Secretary of State and her time in the North.

It may prove to be a good time to be in opposition given the economic uncertainty, broken general election promises on the part of the Government, a growing anger over political mismanagement and a sense that three terms in office has made Fianna Fáil insufferably arrogant.

Hollywood actor Patrick Bergin joined in the trade union May Day celebrations and praised a character he’s about to play on screen, Irish union firebrand Jim Larkin.

The Rev Ian Paisley has not approved any movie which is being planned about his life, he insisted today.

A Hollywood actor is to pay tribute to one of Ireland’s trade union legends at a rally in Belfast this weekend because of a personal family connection.

Ireland’s largest trade union is to help fund a film about one of the rebels executed following the uprising against British rule in 1916, it announced today.

Acclaimed director Neil Jordan, Jim Sheridan and Belfast music producer David Holmes are to be presented with honorary awards at a event celebrating Irish film-writing in Los Angeles next month.

Church bells could be ringing at the predicted success of The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.

Singer Brian Kennedy will perform Ireland’s entry for the 2006 Eurovision Song Contest, it was confirmed today.

Set in Belfast during the troubled l970s, Loane's debut feature tells the story of two little lads whose adventures lead them into dark and dangerous waters.

Wild About Harry, featuring Brendan Gleeson, Amanda Donohoe, Adrian Dunbar and James Nesbitt, has been picked up by top Hollywood studio Paramount for a major re-make.

A statue to honour world-renowned Irish tenor Josef Locke is being planned for his native Derry.

Eniskillen-born actor Adrian Dunbar is lined up with Gerard Butler, Ioan Gruffudd, Matthew Rhys and Jason Hughes in The Drop, to be directed by Colin Teague next year.

Irish beauty Victoria Smurfit adores being a baddie in her new film, Bulletproof Monk; she plays Nina, the determined and dangerous granddaughter of the evil former Nazi, Struker.

London Mayor Ken Livingstone was today signing a friendship agreement with the Lord Mayor of Dublin aimed at promoting culture, tourism and business in both cities.

Several leading Northern-born actors, poets and writers have given their support to a boycott of a Belfast awards ceremony later today in protest at cutbacks in the city's arts budget.

Enrique Iglesias is to perform at the Meteor Ireland Music Awards.