The countdown to Christmas is on, as both Dublin and Cork prepare to turn on their lights this evening.

It’s official — King Nidge is dead, but fans may yet be treated to a sixth season of Love/Hate.

Would you?

As crime boss Nidge in Love/Hate, Tom Vaughan Lawlor hasn’t flinched from dispatching his enemies, and soon he’ll be playing another character who knows where the bodies are buried.

THOUGH it’s four years since world boxing champion Bernard Dunne retired, his fighting spirit is as strong as ever.

Love/Hate star Laurence Kinlan has revealed that every actor on the hit show will be rifling through scripts for the eagerly-anticipated fifth series, to check if they are getting killed off.

The life of Charles Haughey, the politician so many people love to hate, is to be dramatised starring actors from the country’s latest hit crime drama.

How we love our country music, eh!

BRENDAN Gleeson headed a star line-up at last night’s world premiere of Studs, the Paul Mercier feelgood action comedy.

A feast of more than 100 films kicks off today at the fourth Dublin International Film Festival.

The all-star Belfast-made, Mark Hammond-directed thriller Johnny Was has wrapped its Ulster shoot.

You can't get moving these days in Belfast what with a galaxy of stars out on the streets making movies.

YOU know him as Navan Man or the Drunken Politician, and he already has a great career in television and radio behind him. So next stop, the stage.

SET in colonial Australia, Ned Kelly is the story of a young man determined to fight and drink his way into manhood.