Hollywood star Saoirse Ronan arrives in West Cork tomorrow as an estimated 7,000 film buffs are expected to flood into the scenic harbour town of Schull for the Fastnet Film Festival.

Hollywood star Saoirse Ronan is West Cork-bound in a few weeks’ time for one of the country’s most unique film festivals.

Hollywood's Saoirse Ronan is West Cork-bound in a few weeks' time for one of the country's most unique film festivals.

Balbriggan is suffering from a serious seagull problem but residents are fighting back, writes Michael Clifford.

So that’s Monday nearly wrapped up. Here are some of the stories we published on irishexaminer.com today which we hope will help you make sense of it all this evening.

"I was up at twenty past five with Andrew watching the announcement"

The box office success of Element Pictures for the multi-award winning Room resulted in a bumper year for the company last year.

Many a famous face could be spotted shivering their way down the red carpet at this year’s Irish Film and Television Awards, rainclouds and Arctic chills becoming very unwanted guests indeed.

The good news for Lenny Abrahamson's latest film Room keeps rolling in, with positive notice at the box office and awards lists worldwide.

Room, from Irish director Lenny Abrahamson, already looks like one of the best films of 2016, writes Helen Barlow

Irish director Lenny Abrahamson is set to follow up Room with a film about Emile Griffith, a boxer with an interesting life story

Irish movie Room is beginning to generate some Oscar buzz after scooping a major award at the Toronto Film Festival.

From the director of Frank comes an astonishing adaptation of the book by Emma Donoghue about a life lived in a Room

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.

A REPORT has identified the film sector as a key area of growth and employment in the Irish economy over the next five years.

COMEDIAN Pat Shortt, who elevated the jumbo breakfast roll to the dizzying heights of a number one single last year, was yesterday the toast of Cannes Film Festival.

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

Comedian Pat Shortt is settling into small town life in the Midlands where he is halfway through shooting award-winning director Lenny Abrahamson’s latest film Garage.

TEEN idol Samantha Mumba’s pursuit of movie stardom has run into trouble over a controversial teen ‘suicide’ scene in her latest movie, the romantic zombie comedy, Boy Eats Girl.

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.

The drama documentary Omagh, the story of the 1998 Omagh Bombing, directed by Peter Travis has just been nominated for a prestigious BAFTA award.

Gerard McSorley, who played the role of Michael Gallagher in Omagh, won the award for best actor at the Irish Film and Television Awards in Dublin last night.

Omagh, the award-winning film about the bombing of the Northern Ireland city, has picked up major distribution deals which will provide releases in Italy, the Benelux, France, Canada and Argentina.

A harrowing film dealing with the 1998 Omagh bomb has secured distribution deals in a number of countries after picking up several awards, it emerged today.

Feature film Omagh, based on the single worst atrocity of the North's Troubles, has been selected for official competition at the prestigious San Sebastian Film Festival, it emerged tonight.

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