How we love our country music, eh!

Irish film 'Small Engine Repair' has collected two top awards at the Nashville Film Festival.

A critically- acclaimed Irish film has scooped two major awards at a major US film festival.

Church bells could be ringing at the predicted success of The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.

A quality cast for a Maeve Binchy story set in the world of reality-type TV, in which an American and an Irish women, facing personal turmoil, swap lifestyles.

A load of ill-judged rubbish this. A naff film that takes itself, with no obvious reason, too seriously.

Arts Minister John O’Donoghue paid a visit today to the star-studded film set of Maeve Binchy’s Tara Road.

Taoiseach Bertie Ahern is to receive an honorary degree from Aberdeen University, it was revealed today.

SET IN a church-run reformatory school in Ireland just before the start of World War II, Song for a Raggy Boy stars Aidan Quinn as William Franklin, the first lay teacher at St Jude’s Reformatory School.

Aidan Quinn is currently picking up good critical reviews for his performance in the generally released Song for a Raggy Boy, about the abuse of young boys in an Irish reform school in the l930s.

Another harrowing tale of abject cruelty to youngsters in a Catholic institution, circa l930s; and a film which won high praise at the Sundance Festival almost a year ago.

The final preparations are underway for the Opening Gala of the Edinburgh International Film Festival.

One of the biggest events in the arts calendar was due to be launched tomorrow as festival fever continued to grip Scotland’s capital city.

The Cork Film Festival will get under way on October 12 with the premiere of the Irish film, Song for a Raggy Boy, based on a true story by Patrick Galvin