Forget Shakespeare and “all the world’s a stage”. In Schull, the whole town is a flickering cinema screen.

I love working with metal, such as copper which has been used to create homeware for more than 10,000 years...My aim is to bring together centuries of décor trends and create pieces that people will love and that will not go out of style - Siobhán Sacker, metalsmith and founder of Gilded Hound

ONE of comedy trio Foil, Arms and Hog’s weekly YouTube sketches features a Skype job interview gone wrong, writes Ellie O’Byrne. 

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The Big Short (15A) opens in 2005, when number-cruncher extraordinaire Dr Michael Burry (Christian Bale) discovers the vast hole at the heart of the American economy. 

Room, from Irish director Lenny Abrahamson, already looks like one of the best films of 2016, writes Helen Barlow

SALMAN Rushdie’s tenth novel opens in Arab Spain in 1195, when disgraced court physician and philosopher Ibn Rushd takes in the mysterious 16-year-old orphan Dunia.

Garda Joseph Glackin counted himself lucky to be alive as he sat among guests yesterday at Templemore College watching 97 gardaí march past at their graduation.

Rita de Brun thinks there’s little noble in growing old naturally. What does it matter if Renee Zellwegger decided to radically change the way she looks?

Half Moon Theatre, Cork

There has been no shortage of sympathy for Limerick hurling in this column.

JUST days into the new political year, Phil Hogan is back in the public spotlight once again. The environment minister might be scratching his head wondering “here’s another nice mess you’ve gotten me into”. But there’s no Stan Laurel for this Oliver Hardy of Irish politics to turn to and blame.

QUOTE of the week has to go to economist John Fitzgerald who admitted when launching the new ESRI report that: “The one thing that is sure about this latest forecast is that it is wrong.”

The Lone Ranger (12A) opens in San Francisco in 1933, with an aged Native American warrior, Tonto (Johnny Depp), telling a young boy about how the legend of the West’s masked lawman began.

At 88, the iconic theatre’s barmaid tells Margaret Carragher about the many stars she met, and how she bizarrely hid eight kids from the boss

Take a bow UCI, to quote Laurel and Hardy: Here’s another fine mess you’ve gotten us into.

DISABLED people are valued and respected by the Taoiseach and his Health Minister — but only as long as they are in London winning medals at the Paralympics, and not making a nuisance of themselves at home by demanding basic levels of dignity.

’That’s another fine mess you have you’ve got us into’ was a famous quote from the Laurel and Hardy days.

Belfast-born Frank Carson died yesterday after a long battle with cancer.

In Eugene Ionesco’s classic play, Rhinoceros, the hero must resist succumbing to the law of the jungle, says Colette Sheridan

BERTIE AHERN’s head finally hangs in the Dáil — but, typically, not in shame.

Labour Party leader, Eamon Gilmore, has accused the Taoiseach Brian Cowen of a cynical attempt to cling on to power through a major Cabinet reshuffle and appointment of new ministers.

EVER dreamt of living in Marble Halls? A lot of hard work, and the right motivation, might turn this unlikely looking option into a bit of a dream in its own right.

LIKE the old ladies cackling as they did their knitting at the foot of the guillotine in revolutionary France, Mary Coughlan cut an unrepentant figure as she sliced the life out of parliamentary democracy.

CLAIMS that the world’s most famous stone harbours all kinds of nasty diseases are nothing short of Blarney.

THERE they came, lolloping down the steps of the Dáil, Taoiseach and Tánaiste – all they needed was a couple of bowler hats and a slapstick routine involving a ladder and a bucket of water to confirm them as the Laurel and Hardy of Irish politics.

The extinction of playwright and columnist Hugh Leonard’s dazzling energy has left Ireland a poorer place, his funeral heard today.

Thousands of pensioners are expected to take to the streets of Dublin today to protest over new Budget reforms to means test the over-70s for a medical card.

IRISH eyes were smiling at Wimbledon on Saturday night as our grip on the Blue Square English Derby got even stronger.

LAUREL WALK is the D4 of Bandon — or its Sunday’s Well, if a local comparison is more appropriate.

A WAR of words erupted last night over claims that millions of people have been kissing the wrong Blarney Stone.

A collection of 18 personal letters sent by comedy legend Stan Laurel to a Scottish housewife who became his pen pal sold for £2,900 (€4,300) at auction today.

WE in abumedia are researching a documentary on Laurel and Hardy’s Irish tours in 1952-’53.

A MOTION to censure the Government over “its many failures” descended into a rowdy slagging match in the Dáil last night, with both the Government and Opposition launching searing attacks on each other.

Government and opposition TDs tonight traded insults across a stormy Dáil chamber as they debated a motion calling for an early General Election.

With the draw for the European Championship qualifiers and a match with Sweden looming, Steve Staunton will have to learn fast, writes Liam Mackey.

A FEW days ago, a play opened in Dublin based on hapless Hollywood comedy duo Laurel and Hardy.

THE Oscars brought back an old memory last night. A liner set out for New York bound for France, calling to Cobh en route (No, not that liner!).

Piers Robertson

PAISLEY and McGuinness, Bush and Bin Laden, Hitler and Stalin, Laurel and Hardy.

Millions of pounds were poured down the drain by a computerised payroll system for the Northern Ireland Civil service which never produced a single payslip, an official report said today.

THE elegant John Steed from the television series The Avengers would have felt at home on the manicured lawns of the Royal Dublin Society yesterday.