Moone Boy returned to the town of Boyle in Roscommon yesterday as hometown hero Chris O’Dowd began filming the third series of his sitcom.

Electric Picnic organisers have confirmed the artists to play at two of the most unlikely-looking music stages in Ireland.

THERE’S something in the air in Derry. The great city of St Columcille is the first UK City of Culture, a cultural extravaganza that began in January and will extend all year.

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

Grabbers (15A) sounds like a bad Paddy Irishman joke, but Jon Wright’s offbeat tale of a remote Irish island besieged by alien invaders that can only be repulsed by copious amounts of booze is in fact a nifty variation on the B-movie horror flick.

Behind every great man, there is supposedly a great woman.

THE WORDS “cat” and “cream” immediately spring to mind, when a beaming Michael Fassbender comes loping into the Dorchester Hotel in London this week.

The original members of the cast of 'The Commitments' are to reunite to mark the 20th anniversary of the hit film, it was announced today.

It's a pity local director Ryan's debut movie is such a disappointment - and with a title crying out for adverse comment - because there might have been a better film buried there, somewhere.

An Irish director’s first foray onto the big screen has been awarded at a cult film festival in New York.

Four of Ireland’s renowned playwrights have joined forces with four celebrated actors for the Dublin Theatre Festival, it emerged today.

The docu-drama Agnes - the true story of Agnes Jones from Fahan who trained with Florence Nightingale and transformed the awful Liverpool Workhouse in the 1860s - gets its premiere in Derry's Guildhall on November 3.

A quality cast for a Maeve Binchy story set in the world of reality-type TV, in which an American and an Irish women, facing personal turmoil, swap lifestyles.

Tickets for the Oxegen music festival - headlined by Foo Fighters - have sold out, a record six weeks before the event.

The award-winning The Boys from County Clare, directed by John Irvin, will open the seventh annual CRAIC New York Celtic Film and Music Festival next month (March 2 to 6).

The Frames have been nominated in two categories for the Meteor Ireland Music Awards - Best Irish Album and Best Irish Band.

Good ensemble performances give this one a slight edge, though the promise of it being better is never fulfilled.

Derry actress Bronagh Gallagher is putting her newly-honed horse-riding skills to the test on the set of Ridley Scott’s latest movie Tristan and Isolde.

It has already received a public airing at this summer’s Galway Film Fleadh but brace yourself for the full Irish release of Gerry Ryan and Louis Walsh’s film debut Spin The Bottle.