The new Dáil, however it is composed, will have only a short window of time to engage with critically important climate change issues, says Cara Augustenborg

With the Hunger Games destroyed forever in Mockingjay: Part 1, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay: Part 2 (12A) opens with Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) plotting the final downfall of the evil President Snow (Donald Sutherland) as the rebellion against the repressive government in the Capitol achieves an irresistible momentum. 

Hunger Games director Francis Lawrence has defended the inclusion of violent scenes in the final film, despite its 12A certificate.

Born from the books by Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games has become a movie phenomenon since it first arrived in 2012. But all sagas must come to an end, and Mockingjay Part 2 will see this last chapter to its breathtaking end.

The Hunger Games are almost at an end. All that's left is for Katniss to take on the Capitol, and the leering spectre of President Snow.

Lots of excellent telly on the box tonight, from talented folks to aquatic fantasy.

Enda Kenny’s decision to cut USC has been seen as a bid to reclaim votes, a hero garda is being celebrated after risking his life to save three children, Paul O’Connell plans to see out his IRFU contract and David Beckham hits 40. These are some of the latest and most read news stories on irishexaminer.com this morning.

Gardaí are hunting for a man wanted in the UK in connection with rape, theft, and assault allegations; Usain Bolt is set to conquer the screens with a road to Rio film; a Russian supply spacecraft spins out of control and Brendan O'Connor’s Saturday Night Show is under fire over comments made about US President Barack Obama. These are some of the latest and most read news on irishexaminer.com this evening.

The iconic horror film starring Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie is set to be remade for modern audiences because... we don't know

Rita de Brún is impressed by the four star Fitzpatrick Castle Hotel, which has been lovingly refurbished recently.

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Selena Gomez struggled to hold back tears as she picked up the Ultimate Choice Award at last night's Teen Choice Awards.

Donald Sutherland hopes 'Hunger Games: Catching Fire' will inspire a revolution in America.

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The opening scenes of Tony Palmer’s documentary, Bird on a Wire, about Leonard Cohen’s five-week European tour in 1972 — which began in Dublin — show security manhandling concertgoers in Tel Aviv. Cohen coos softly, in his Quebecker drawl, into a microphone: “I know you’re trying to do your job, but you don’t have to do it with your fists.”

Bullets bounced off Ned Kelly “like hail” as the Australian outlaw made his last stand, according to an eyewitness account that has surfaced more than 130 years after his capture.

THAT over-used cliché — ‘sex sells’ — looks to have passed its sell-by date, at least as far as the movies are concerned.

Anne Doyle, 61, is thriving on all fronts since she retired as news reader from RTÉ at the end of 2011. Between volunteering as an ambassador for her native county, Wexford, writing short stories and travelling — last stop Jamaica — life has been “surprisingly easy”. She had a flu six months ago. “It was very sapping, and when I recovered I found I was a bit aimless and felt I had to get some structure on my day. But it must have been the flu, because it passed,” says Anne, whose long-term partner is former restaurant owner, Dan McGrattan.

Kiefer Sutherland has been named Harvard University's Hasty Pudding Man of the Year.

Adapted from the musical of the same name (which was itself adapted from Victor Hugo’s novel) and set in 19th century France, Les Miserables (12A) follows the fortunes of former convict Jean Valjean (Hugh Jackman) as he struggles to fulfil his destiny, despite being foiled by fate at every turn.

Series five of Mad Men, the series set in the world of New York advertising in the 1960s, begins on RTÉ Two on Friday.

Philip Seymour Hoffman has signed up to appear in 'The Hunger Games: Catching Fire'.

Donald Sutherland saw "the white light" when he died for a "few seconds" while filming 'Kelly's Heroes'.

Death is a lottery – literally – in Gary Ross’s nail-biting survival thriller based on the first chapter of Suzanne Collins’s post-apocalyptic trilogy.

A DUBLIN actress is about to take her first steps in the shadow of screen and stage legends such as Richard Harris and Donald Sutherland.

This fairly low-budget actioner takes as its basis the popular novel 'The Eagle of the Ninth' by Rosemary Sutcliff, a story set in Roman Britain which has become obscured by myth.

Another mindless Statham trip into the territory he has made his own: bereft of anything other than relentless and depressing violence conducted by characters with nothing that enlists warmth from the audience.

Charlize Theron – who has been single since splitting from long-term love Stuart Townsend in January – has reportedly started dating model-and-actor Eric Thal who owns a farm in New York.

TV and pop impresario Simon Fuller is to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Oprah Winfrey, Penelope Cruz, will.i.am and The Muppets are among the latest celebrities to be immortalised with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

FAMOUS for little and infamous for less, Orangeville, Dufferin County, Ontario, may finally have its day in the sun thanks to a man who clearly still hasn’t found what he’s looking for.

The popular Japanese TV character comes to the big screen with a sterling cast and excellent animation.

Kiefer Sutherland is to be honoured with the 2,377th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Tuesday.

A rom-com that isn't romantic or funny comes with a built-in handicap.

Kiefer Sutherland has discovered he has a long-lost half-brother thanks to an obituary in a Canadian newspaper.

Sienna Miller’s sex scene with Hayden Christensen in her new movie is so steamy it has prompted speculation it might be more than acting.

Nic Roeg’s Don’t Look Now: Special Edition (Optimum, €24.99) is not an easy film to watch, but then horror films never are.

Actor Donald Sutherland has revealed his Emmy award-winning son, Kiefer, couldn’t even get cast as the son of his real-life dad when he auditioned for his first movie.

Donald Sutherland owes his big ears for his movie break because he's convinced he would have missed out on a speaking part in The Dirty Dozen if he hadn't stood out from the crowd of extras.