Ireland’s Dominique McElligott has followed up House of Cards with a starring role alongside Kelsey Grammer, writes Esther McCarthy.

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Eoghan O’Sullivan has all your entertainment news for the week right here.

This week Michael Moynihan tackles the controversial issue of gender equality in sport.

Given the noses in the southwest which were put out of joint last Friday by Conor McCarthy’s piece in these pages, should we start with off-field competition?

Nominated for an Oscar earlier this year, Song of the Sea (PG) is a stunning animation from the people who brought us The Book of Kells (2009). 

Fringe gets the high fashion treatment, writes Annmarie O’Connor.

Rita de Brun was a widow before 40, so she is sceptical of research that says we are happiest at any particular time. It’s different for everyone. Some people thrive later, into their 60s and 70s. We asked three celebrities in their prime if they were less or more content now.

Costa del Ireland. We usually have a country full of rain, cloud and lack of-to-no sun. Nowadays, that’s a whole new concept as locals right across Ireland have spotted this yellow thing in the sky called the sun.

Breaking Bad, Gatsby and Game of Thrones have all inspired baby names in the UK this year, while the desire not to be seen as a “Kate copycat” had led to a decline in the popularity of royal names, according to website BabyCentre.

I love to travel and discovered many years ago that each journey I took was a story in itself.

I wasn’t a sporty kid.

At every great party, there is that inescapable moment when the music stops, the lights go up and all of the imperfections, which have been concealed so deliciously under a cloak of darkness, are suddenly thrown into sharp relief.

Faced with the challenge of filming a literary classic, a director can opt for a slavish devotion to the original text or to adapt the source material for a different kind of storytelling.

MOST mornings, I would have preferred to stay in bed than go to school: my shrunken uniform jumper, the politics of school corridors, monotone teachers, popularity contests (which I never won) and soggy sandwiches never appealed.

ZELDA Scott Fitzgerald was the ultimate pin-up for the American Dream of the 1920s — the original ‘wild child’ was an eccentric and over-indulged ‘It girl’.

BRACE YOURSELF: the old, tired argument about books being better than their movie adaptations is about to get a real shot in the arm with the release of Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby.

FASHION is fascinated with the past.

From the second of the Hunger Games’ movies to a new Die Hard instalment, 2013 promises much in top films, writes John Daly

Late last night in Miami, the old F Scott Fitzgerald adage about no second acts gracing American lives was given a run for its money by an inconsequential game between the New York Mets and the Miami Marlins.

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Lionel Asbo:The State of England

Sigourney Weaver changed her name from Susan because she was "too tall" for the moniker.

The Most Beautiful Walk in the World

With only weeks to go before her wedding, Poppy Wyatt loses her priceless engagement ring and her mobile phone at a hen weekend brunch.

Meryl Streep picked up the third Oscar of her career today on a night when Hollywood made a big noise about a silent film.

Angelina Jolie has presented the award for adapted screenplay to the George Clooney film, 'The Descendants'.

Following his European jaunts around England and Spain, writer-director Woody Allen says bonjour to Paris for his new romantic comedy, his 41st movie.

MIDNIGHT in Paris (15A) stars Owen Wilson as struggling writer Gil, who travels to Paris in search of inspiration with his fiancée Inez (Rachel McAdams).

FOR some of us, the fun just goes on. First, the Queen. Second, Obama.

STARGAZERS already were catching sight of some of Hollywood’s biggest stars at the Cannes Film Festival well before Midnight in Paris, the Woody Allen romance that opened the glamorous event last night.

There was no referee to call a halt so it was left to a game of ball to close the widening chasm and offer momentary respite.

PLEASE mind your toes, reader; there’s quite a big name about to be dropped in a second or two.

Keira Knightley and Matt Damon look set to star in a movie version of F Scott Fitzgerald’s 'Tender Is The Night'.

Artist Stella Vine today unveiled a series of paintings based on supermodel Kate Moss and her fall from grace.

DID you ever hear anyone say: “Great night last night. Fourteen pints and I was locked out of my head?”

Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett are said to be in negotiations to star in an adaptation of the F Scott Fitzgerald story The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button.

Actress Patsy Kensit was making her West End debut tonight alongside Ardal O'Hanlon at the premiere of a comedy in which she plays a mistress.