The second instalment of the 2015 Irish Film and Television Awards is fast approaching, and a list of final nominees including Chris O’Dowd, Deirdre O’Kane and Brendan O’Carroll, has just been announced.

Galway International Arts Festival

Local actor Cathy Belton is proud to be leading the charge at the Galway Arts Festival, writes Padraic Killeen

CATHY Belton is having a ball playing Patricia Hennessy in new TV3 soap Red Rock.

Cathy Belton is currently playing Patricia Hennessy in Red Rock on TV3, and also plays Roy’s mother in Roy, the story of a cartoon boy.

But what’s it all about?

Abbey Theatre, Dublin

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Up to 60 jobs have been created at an Irish animation company after the BBC recommissioned a children’s programme.

A Woman of No Importance is Wilde at his best — and full of resonance for modern audiences, writes Carl Dixon

I believe that anyone who is born by the Atlantic is constantly drawn back there.

Mary (Cathy Belton) has just had her home repossessed. Jobless and desperate, and with child services breathing down her neck, the young-ish New Yorker decides to break in and occupy the fancy Manhattan home of a rich old lady (Ingrid Craigie).

Separating the real person from the image was the focus of Rebecca Daly’s directorialdebut film The Other Side of Sleep, Don O’Mahony reports

A COMPANY that operates an agency representing some of Ireland’s best known film and stage actors, writers and comedians went into the red last year.