Oscar-winning director Michael Cimino, whose film The Deer Hunter became one of the great triumphs of Hollywood’s 1970s heyday and whose disastrous Heaven’s Gate helped bring that era to a close, has died.

In a year that has taken David Bowie, Prince, Merle Haggard, Guy Clarke, Alan Rickman, Caroline Aherne, and Michael Herr, author of Dispatches, one of the great anti-war books, it might be a tad difficult to get the deserved recognition for film-maker Michael Cimino, who died in Los Angeles aged 77, on Saturday. 

MUSIC NEWS: Hozier is in Mitchelstown this weekend, and has also released a video of a duet with Karen Cowley on his single ‘In A Week’ that was recorded at Kilkenny Castle.

Alternatives to the traditional model are explored in new show, says Tina Darb O’Sullivan

Heaven’s Gate disaster inspired Brian Duggan’s work at Carlow’s VISUAL Centre, Tina O’Sullivan reports