It is by a distance the most frequent face-off of the new millennium, with 26 championship clashes already since Cork partied like it’s 1999. Kieran Shannon has crunched the numbers from all those games, observed the trends — and how both camps might try to buck them this evening.

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Your spoiler free guide to tonight's TV.

The Drop (15A) stars Tom Hardy a Bob Saginowski, a bartender in a rundown oston neighbourhood. 

This week, Benedict Cumberbatch plays Alan Turing in the Oscar-tipped wartime thriller The Imitation Game, a bartender becomes embroiled in a robbery in The Drop and Martin Clunes and Catherine Tate spread the Christmas cheer in Nativity 3: Dude, Where’s My Donkey?!.

Eve Hewson has followed Oscar winners Jennifer Lawrence and Lupita Nyong’o into the exclusive Hollywood club of actors tipped for stardom by the acting bible Variety.

David O Russell’s 'American Hustle' win the top honour – award for outstanding cast at the Screen Actors Guild awards today.

The force of Gravity may be about to exert itself on Hollywood’s awards season when Academy Award nominations are announced today.

Danny & the Deep Blue Sea, Chancery Lane Theatre, Dublin

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Rachel Borrill looks at the thorny issues of forming romantic second-time-round relationships.

Captain Phillips ****

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Robert De Niro will step into a TV project thrown into question by the death of 'Sopranos' star James Gandolfini.

‘Breaking Bad’ and ‘Modern Family’ were the big winners at the 65th annual Primetime Emmy Awards last night.

James Gandolfini and Cory Monteith will be honoured at the Emmy Awards.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus says audiences will “really freak out” over James Gandolfini’s performance in his final film.

I’VE OFTEN been asked what underpins my attraction to Simon Cowell — bad taste in men, a potential styling project, weird Machiavellian fetish.

A MONTH ago today, actor James Gandolfini, best known for his role as Mafia boss, Tony Soprano, was found lying on his hotel bathroom floor, in Italy, by his 13-year-old son, Michael. He had suffered a fatal heart attack, aged 51.

John Travolta won't be "bitter" over life's tragedies.

Alec Baldwin says he would happily ditch his career if he could and has vowed never to return to Twitter.

Actor James Gandolfini has left the bulk of his estimated US $70m (€54m) estate to his 13-year-old son and infant daughter.

Alec Baldwin insists he isn't homophobic.

James Gandolfini's widow paid tribute to her “ honest, kind and loving” husband at his funeral on Thursday.

The creator of The Sopranos has said at James Gandolfini’s funeral that the actor brought the traits of a sad boy, “amazed and confused,” to the role of Tony Soprano.

The funeral of The Sopranos star, James Gandolfini, is due to take place in New York.

James Gandolfini's body has been returned to the US.

John Travolta has promised to care for the family of late actor James Gandolfini.

There was no evidence of substance abuse or foul play, a family friend said today.

James Gandolfini’s portrayal of criminal Tony Soprano in the landmark drama series The Sopranos was just one facet of an actor who created a rich legacy of film and stage work in a life cut short.

The premature death yesterday, at 51, of James Gandolfini, the actor whose Emmy-winning portrayal of a Mafia boss in The Sopranos was a reminder of how magnificent, how very well written that series was.

Actor James Gandolfini died after suffering cardiac arrest, hospital officials in Rome say.

James Gandolfini, the actor famous for his lead role in mob drama The Sopranos, has died in Italy, according to his managers.

James Gandolfini died suddenly in Italy yesterday.

Any film which tantalises audiences with a superlative in the title needs to deliver on the promise.

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GIG WISE: It’s the hottest ticket in town … Dingle town at least, and probably the entire country.

Killing Them Softly ****

Crime does pay and the price tag is your life in 'Killing Them Softly', an artfully composed, slow-burning crime thriller based on the novel 'Cogan’s Trade' by George V Higgins.

Brad Pitt hopes his films will be a legacy for his children to watch when they are older.

Toni Collette has signed up Nicole Holofcener's new comedy.

A Hollywood master and a young pretender go head to head for Cannes’ top prize tomorrow, as films starring Brad Pitt and Robert Pattinson had their premieres this week.

Brad Pitt’s role as a brutal mob enforcer is not just a gangster story but a commentary on modern living, he said today.

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