Not content with decimating the White House in his 1996 sci-fi blockbuster ‘Independence Day’, director Roland Emmerich reduces the Washington landmark to rubble again in this preposterous, high-octane action thriller.

EVER since Bono slipped on his trademark wrap-around sunglasses for The Fly in 1992, it’s become impossible to imagine the superstar without them.

The Stone Roses, Blur, Pulp – everyone’s reuniting these days. Now it looks like Led Zeppelin could be coming back.

Gay Byrne begins a new series of The Meaning Of Life on Tuesday at 10.15pm on RTÉ One with an interview with Mary McAleese.

MUSIC NEWS: Ireland is to lose another record shop with the closure on Sunday of Dolphin Discs on Talbot Street in Dublin.

The new-look Liss Ard Festival was launched yesterday outside Skibbereen in West Cork.

Comedian Frankie Boyle will have shows in Cork and Dublin next December.

Manic Street Preachers found collaborating with ex Guns N' Roses star Duff McKagan "awe-inspiring".

CHART stars The Darkness landed a pair of prizes at a TV music awards show last night.

Chart stars The Darkness landed a pair of prizes at a TV music award show tonight.