Activist and rock star Bob Gelof was awarded an honorary doctorate at Trinity College earlier today.

Dame Helen Mirren has won her first ever Olivier Award.

Dame Helen Mirren and Billie Piper will go head-to-head at this year’s Olivier Awards – while James McAvoy is in the running for Macbeth.

This year’s Tony Awards honoured The Normal Heart for its passionate look at the Aids crisis and War Horse, a play which shows the horror of the battlefield. But the night’s biggest prize went to a musical which mocked both.

Taoiseach Bertie Ahern today paid tribute to Tony Blair as the outgoing British Prime Minister was granted a university chair to mark his role in the North's peace process.