Des O’Driscoll shares the latest news from the entertainment world.

Cork film-maker Pat Collins’ tale of one of Ireland’s greatest sean-nós singers is on the longlist for the foreign-language Oscar, writes Esther McCarthy

Paddy Glackin tells Nicki ffrench Davis about his participation in John Cage’s musical take on Joyce’s Finnegans Wake

A Special Branch detective told the Special Criminal Court in Dublin today that he believed that Des Long, the vice president of Republican Sinn Fein, was carrying out an anti surveillance measure in driving a circuitous route through Limerick.