The shortlist for the 40 categories in the Irish Film and Television Academy Awards has been revealed this morning.

It was set in a spectacular €380m location and involved a 450-strong army of behind-the-camera personnel.

RTE's hit drama 'Love/Hate' looks set to clean up at the 2012 IFTAs this year, with ten nominations announced today.

SENATORS and TDs will get a chance to see Brendan Gleeson’s Golden Globe-nominated performance for themselves after being given free copies of The Guard for Christmas.

The Audiovisual Federation today welcomed the Budget’s continued funding for the Irish Film Board and that no change was made to the film taxation incentive Section 481.

Ireland’s film and television industry is still boosting the economy despite the recession, a business group said today.

Irish film 'Garage' has been selected for the prestigious Directors' Fortnight at the 60th Cannes Film Festival.

THE long standing vacuum at the head of the Irish Film Board was finally resolved last week with the announcement that Englishman Simon Perry will take over as CEO on January 9, 2006, a position vacant since Mark Woods’ departure last April.

The second homes market is set to grow in the UK in the next decade as people snap up extra properties in Britain rather than abroad, a new report predicted today.

Ken Loach’s Irish Civil War drama has been awarded essential funds for its Co Cork shoot under a new scheme to aid films made in Ireland, it was confirmed today.

The Irish Film Board (IFB) has said films co-financed by the board in the first three months of 2005 have been snapped up for overseas distribution.

A major new initiative was launched today to encourage international production companies to shoot films in Ireland.

Work has started around Dublin on director Stephen Bradley's comedy horror, Boy Eats Girl, about a teenage date with disastrous consequences.

Screen Producers Ireland (SPI) have said that it is a tremendous achievement for Ireland that the film In America, produced and directed by Jim Sheridan, has received three Oscar nominations.

Screen Producers Ireland (SPI) has welcomed Charlie McCreevy’s decision to retain Section 481 until the end of 2008.

Screen Producers Ireland (SPI) has welcomed the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance assertion that its final report will recommend retention of the Section 481 tax incentive for the film industry until the end of 2007.

THE bulk of the 4,300 people working in the independent television and film sector face unemployment or emigration when Finance Minister Charlie McCreevy axes a special tax incentive, it was claimed yesterday.

Nearly 80% of film production work in Ireland will cease if the Government removes the Section 481 tax incentive by the end of 2004.

Belfast Harlequins added the All Ireland league division 2 final to their successful season at Lansdowne Road today.