MUSIC NEWS: You’ll be hearing a lot of Jamie xx in the coming weeks, with his appearance at Forbidden Fruit tomorrow coming just a day after the release of his much anticipated album, In Colour. 

Frank and Patrick’s Day have topped the list for film nominations with nine, while both Love/Hate and Vikings have the highest number of nominations for a television programme with seven.

The IFTA's are back for 2015, rumours of their demise have been greatly exaggerated, and the list of nominees has been revealed.

Dan Le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip

New album and gigs lined up in Glastonbury, Dublin and Mitchelstown-

Indiependence Music & Arts Festival has today announced a second batch of acts to play this year's event.

It’s not happening until August but already early- bird tickets are selling faster than ever for an outdoor music festival estimated to bring in €2m to a North Cork town.

NEIL YOUNG CORK:

Glenn Patterson

Bobby Gillespie of Primal Scream tells Ed Power about drugs, Kate Moss and his band’s storming return with a superb new album

Oscar-winning film director Steven Soderbergh will begin shooting a new film starring top Hollywood stars on the streets of Dublin within weeks, it was confirmed today.

Guinness today announced the line-up of artists for Dublin’s Arthur’s Day 250th anniversary celebrations on September 24.

THEY bared all for art but were fully clothed yesterday as they collected souvenir copies of the photographs taken by world-renowned American artist Spencer Tunick in Cork last year.

THEY bared all for art but were fully clothed yesterday as they collected souvenir copies of the photographs taken by world-renowned American artist Spencer Tunick in Cork last year.

Hip hop favourites Black Eyed Peas and rockers Kasabian are among music stars lining up for a clutch of global concerts to toast 250 years of Guinness this autumn, it was revealed today.

AN award-winning film by acclaimed Dublin playwright Conor McPherson will be among a raft of Irish productions showcased at the Cannes Film Festival this week.

An award-winning film by acclaimed Dublin playwright Conor McPherson will be among a raft of Irish productions showcased at the Cannes Film Festival this week.

Work has resumed on the latest Harry Potter movie a week after Daniel Radcliffe's's stunt double was seriously injured in an onset accident.

DUBLIN band The Script have been hotly tipped to scoop this year’s acclaimed Choice Music Prize.

Dublin band The Script have been hotly tipped to scoop this year’s acclaimed Choice Music Prize.

One of Ireland’s foremost big-screen art houses has announced a programme of great events to mark its 40th anniversary on October 3-9.

FOOTBALL players from Havana to the West Bank will kit out on Irish soil today, as they give racism the red card.

It was a wild night indeed for Van Morrison in LA last night when he was presented with an award for his contribution to film by Al Pacino.

Van Morrison is to be honoured for his musical contribution to film at a star-studded bash ahead of next year’s Oscars ceremony in Los Angeles, it was revealed today.

Fun Lovin' Criminals are among the headliners at this year's 2006 Budweiser Global Beats Festival to be held over the May Bank Holiday Week in Limerick.

… goes to Neil Jordan, with Jodie Foster to present it.

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.

Coldplay are already desperate to release another album - just months after their hugely successful record X&Y hit shelves.

THE general consensus among Leaving Certificate students at Scoil Árd Rís in Limerick city was that yesterday’s higher-level maths Paper II was much harder than the first paper.

U2 today led the way in the nominations for one of the Irish record industry’s top awards.