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Here’s your weekly entertainment guide and news round-up with Des O’Driscoll.

Des O’Driscoll with the latest entertainment news and events

Diverse and exciting writing talent has been shortlisted across 14 categories for the Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards.

The organisers of the Oscars have invited a record number of new people to vote for next year’s Academy Awards following the row over a lack of diversity.

Eimear O’Herlihy is from Cork city and she is festival manager with West Cork Literary Festival, a week-long programme of readings, workshops and family events that will take place in Bantry, July 17 -23.

A new feminist rating system for movies aims to draw attention to the prominence of women on both sides of the camera, writes Caroline Delaney

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.

For the latest big release in an incredible year for Irish cinema, Rachel Griffiths plays a grieving mother embroiled in an unlikely love affair, writes Helen Barlow

Movie adaptations of famous books have long been big business in the film industry. 

Room, Sing Street, and My Name is Emily look set to be the big winners at the Irish Film and Television Awards (Iftas) as they have bagged eight nominations apiece.

Michael and Danny Healy-Rae’s resounding electoral success (30,000-plus votes) proves that all politics is local and dismissing them is to denigrate the people of Kerry, despite that county’s great diversity, writes Clodagh Finn

Some of the biggest names in Irish movies, theatre, and entertainment were feted in LA last night ahead of Sunday’s Oscars.

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

The best of what’s hitting Irish cinemas this week.

THAT our enthusiasm for basking in the reflected glory of a neighbour’s child’s achievements is as much part of the Irish character as the part of us that happily shares, in hushed tones of course, the grimmest details of that neighbour’s child’s day in court for some college rag-day excess, just points to the complexity driving the Irish imagination.

A young mother and her son live in their own tiny world.

Irish director Lenny Abrahamson has been earning rave reviews for his latest movie Room, based on the book by author Emma Donoghue.

With awards season looming, actors, actresses, and directors all across tinsel town are busy buying ball gowns, dry-cleaning tuxedos, and practising the humblest of acceptance speeches. The hotly anticipated Golden Globes take place tomorrow, while Oscar nominations will be announced on Thursday. As two of the highest accolades associated with the movie industry, any film that makes the shortlist for either should be at the top of your must-watch list. To help you along, Kelly O’Brien compiled our Magnificent Seven — a selection of films tipped for Golden Globes and Oscars glory

Irish director Lenny Abrahamson's latest film Room has been earning incredible reviews, enthusiastic audience reactions and awards glory over the last few months, and he's finally bringing the film home.

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

From movies to music, food to fashion, our critics reveal their picks for the year ahead.

Holly Ryan is from Waterford and is playing Belle in the Cork Opera House panto, Beauty and the Beast. She is 18 and living in Cork (and away from home) for the first time to work on the production.

Lenny Abrahamson's Room continues to pick up great notices on its US release and has now notched up an impressive three Golden Globe nominations for the awards in 2016.

Irish writer Emma Donoghue tells Helen Barlow how her hit film about incarceration was more inspired by her own experiences of motherhood than the Fritzl case

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

Fresh from amazing reviews out of the festival, Lenny Abrahamson's Room has scored a major award at TIFF 2015.

We bring you a round up of all the latest news and reviews from the world of entertainment. 

What Richard Did and Frank director Lenny Abrahamson is back with a new movie called Room. It's based on a book by Irish author Emma Donoghue and tells the story of a mother and son living in a tiny home in mysterious circumstances.

Good morning. Here’s everything you need to know before you start your day.

Room, from the book by Irish author Emma Donoghue, is a unique story told from the perspective of a young boy called Jack who lives alone in the universe save for his mother.

Four top Irish films will be at the BFI London Film Festival which runs from the 7th to the 18th of October 2015.