Waterford IT and Dundalk IT (DKIT) will contest this afternoon’s Trench Cup decider after both teams enjoyed extremely comfortable semi-final wins.

It’s hard to believe it but today marks the 20th anniversary of the first episode of the greatest Irish sitcom ever — the inimitable Fr Ted.

A judge has ordered the arrest of screen actor Gerard McSorley after he failed to turn up to court today to face a breach of the peace charge.

At home his kids called him head-the-ball, their fondness for Seamus Heaney the father more than a match for their awe of him as artist.

McDermottroe has adapted his own stage play for the screen, with mixed results but with an ultimate plus sign to hang against it, thanks largely to the fine acting of the cast in all the roles.

This is a buddy comedy that fails to be funny or even worth watching.

A powerful thriller, written by Fox for Cantwell’s feature debut, that has been two years in the making, that manages to cover that much-tramped territory of the turmoil of the recent civil unrest in the North.

The Omagh bombing was the greatest single atrocity in the North.

The low-budget indie 'Anton' has wrapped production after shooting in Cavan, Dublin and Paris.

Fire and brimstone aplenty as out-of-touch but morally strict priest (macfayden) returns to his Irish home town to find the citizens have fallen badly from grace, what with the drinking and the getting-with-child.

An interesting Irish film that tries, at least, to be different as it examines the problems of a newly-arrived refugee from Africa.

The most successful Irish-made feature film in years - Omagh - just keeps on picking up top awards around the world.

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.

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.

Here is the full list of winners from the second annual Irish Film and Television Awards, which were held in the Burlington Hotel in Dublin.

Graphic film drama Omagh and sentimental comedy Inside I’m Dancing top a bill of international cinema successes aiming for glory at Ireland’s premier awards show next weekend.

Coleraine-born actor James Nesbitt will present the Irish Film and Television Awards for the second year running, it was revealed today.

Inside I’m Dancing is an interesting tale of searching for something more, from Irish director, Damien O’Donnell.

Irish director Damien O’Donnell has high hopes that, Inside I’m Dancing, will score with cinema-lovers on its release later this week.

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.

A movie about the Omagh bomb was one of two Irish films to scoop a top prize at a major Canadian film festival.

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.

YOU know him as Navan Man or the Drunken Politician, and he already has a great career in television and radio behind him. So next stop, the stage.

Taoiseach Bertie Ahern has agreed to a meeting with the father of a boy killed in the Omagh bombing after months of pressure, it was confirmed tonight.

Made for the change in his pocket - well, actually, under €1m - this is a home-made triumph for first-time director Quinn.