Last weekend saw Dublin Comic-Con welcome comic and geek culture enthusiasts from all over Ireland to the Dublin Convention Centre - including some of the country’s top cosplayers.

Michael Rooker, who plays Yondu in Guardians of the Galaxy, told the Irish Examiner that the film’s script is indeed finished and filming will begin very soon just outside of Atlanta.

AA Roadwatch has warned people to drive carefully this bank holiday weekend, which is traditionally one of the busiest of the year on Ireland's roads.

CROWDED HOUSE sang about it and yesterday the country was subjected to it - the vagaries of the Irish climate and four seasons in one day.

If ever any of this largely unknown cast makes it big in the movies, lay your bets now that they will feel only abject embarrassment at having made this stinker.