Your home viewing entertainment wrap for the week ahead, with Des O’Driscoll.

The first of the six episodes series debuted on RTÉ One last night at 9.30pm.

As two of Albert Square’s finest move to this country for a new series, Ed Power hears why they hope to make amends for the disastrous visit in the 1990s.

Michael Gambon who connected with young and not so young Harry Potter fans worldwide as their beloved Albus Dumbledore is to receive a lifetime achievement award from the Irish Film and Television Academy.

Fáilte Ireland is to spend €500,000 over the next four weeks on an advertising campaign designed to attract British tourists to the stretch of the Wild Atlantic Way from Galway to Donegal.

Limerick City and County Council has said it gave €1,100 to the Richard Harris International Film Festival and not €200 as claimed by the organisers.

The promoters of a film festival which celebrates Richard Harris in his native Limerick, has accused the city’s cultural establishment of snubbing the event after the city council gave it just €200.

Kat and Alfie Moon have turned up in Ireland in the first official snap of the Eastenders’ spinoff Redwater.

Even bigger crowds are expected to attend this year’s Skibbereen Arts Festival as it grows in popularity with its impressive line-up of musicians, actors and artists from home and abroad.

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). 

66 year old writer and director Jim Sheridan is one of the titan of Irish filmmaking, with a hand in productions like My Left Foot (nominated for two Oscars), In the Name of the Father, The Field and In America.

What should you watch tonight? These things.

Irish animated film Song of the Sea will compete against some of the biggest players in the movie business after being nominated for an Oscar.

Song of the Sea from Kilkenny's Cartoon Saloon has been nominated for Best Animated Feature Film at this year’s Academy awards.

The Irish Film and Television Awards (IFTAs) are almost upon us, and this year sees a stellar line-up gracing the red carpet.

This year’s Irish Film and Television Academy awards promise to be the most exciting yet, with superstars Colin Farrell and Michael Fassbender being tipped for a gong.

Life’s A Breeze (12A) might have Pat Shortt on its poster but Lance Daly’s (Kisses, The Halo Effect) film centres on Fionnula Flanagan’s grouchy pensioner and debutant Kelly Thornton’s sullen teenager, using the Tipperary comedian for occasional comic effect.

WHITE Rabbit, Red Rabbit is not your ordinary theatre production.

With the Section 481 production tax relief extended until 2020, the Irish film industry breathed a sigh of relief after some pre-budget suggestions that the scheme might have been axed.

It was set in a spectacular €380m location and involved a 450-strong army of behind-the-camera personnel.

TV series 'Love/Hate' and films 'The Guard' and 'Albert Nobbs' were the big winners at last night's Irish Film and Television Academy (IFTA) awards in Dublin.

Actress Fionnula Flanagan is to be given the Lifetime Achievement Award at this year's IFTAs.

RTE's hit drama 'Love/Hate' looks set to clean up at the 2012 IFTAs this year, with ten nominations announced today.

I was a fairly outgoing child, I suppose, but a career in comedy was never really on the cards.

John Michael McDonagh's comedy-thriller 'The Guard' is set to open the Los Angeles Irish Film Festival tomorrow night.

IT’S TOO soon to rush to declare Terence Malick’s The Tree of Life (12A) a masterpiece, but it is safe to say that there won’t be a more ambitious and thought-provoking film released this year.

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The talented Gervais, who also wrote this clever comedy, tries his hand at directing and makes an excellent behind-the-cameras debut.

An Irish language film has been submitted for an Oscar for the first time ever, it emerged today.

It was a wild night indeed for Van Morrison in LA last night when he was presented with an award for his contribution to film by Al Pacino.

The competition was red-hot at this year’s Irish Film and Television Awards as stars of the stage and screen strutted their finery on the carpet.

Two award winning actors are taking time out from filming in Dublin to present accolades at this year’s Irish Film and Television Awards.

A host of star names line up for Friday’s IFTA Film and Television Awards at the RDS in Dublin.

Top awards at this year's seventh annual Magners Irish Film Festival in Boston will go to Fionnula Flanagan - the Excellence Award - star of such films as Waking Ned Devine, Some Mother's Son and Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood.

She may have survived the sinking of the Titanic, but veteran Irish actress Fionnula Flanagan admits to be terrified during the making of The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood ... because of the accent she had to use.