One of the stars of Cork Opera House’s Christmas panto is hitting the gym to prepare for what will be its longest ever run.

From a small secondary school with just 68 students and four staff members, Christ King Girls’ Secondary School is now the largest girls’ school in Munster — and celebrates 50 years in education this year.

From the toe-tapping tunes in Peter Pan to Boyzone’s Keith Duffy as the Baddie in in Jack and the Beanstalk, we pick the best of the festive fun with Colette Sheridan

Vincent Cassel in La Haine, the film that made his name and which is as provocative today as it was in 1995.

THE 24th Cork French Film Festival begins on Sunday (Mar 3).

AIRPORT police had to control an angry crowd of disappointed holiday-makers when their Ryanair flight from Cork to Alicante in Spain was grounded without warning last evening because of the French air traffic controllers’ strike.