Two award winning actors are taking time out from filming in Dublin to present accolades at this year’s Irish Film and Television Awards.

Michael Gambon and Stephen Rea will be joined by Colin Firth, Jim Broadbent, Penelope Wilton, Sophie Okonedo and James Bolam in a special film of Harold Pinter's play Celebration for Brit TV channel, More4. The production airs in December.

Stars of Ken Loach’s new film The Wind That Shakes The Barley attended its UK premiere in London tonight.

Director Ken Loach bit back at English critics who have attacked The Wind that Shakes the Barley for being anti-British at the film's gala premiere at the Cork Omniplex last night.

IT may not have been as sunny as Cannes, but everyone was beaming at the Irish premiere of Ken Loach’s award-winning The Wind That Shakes The Barley last night in Cork, not least its homegrown star, actor Cillian Murphy.

IRELAND’S burgeoning film industry will be making its mark at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, with some of the country’s finest stars taking to the red carpet.

Ireland’s blooming film industry will be making its mark at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, with some of the country’s finest stars taking to the red carpet.

Ken Loach-directed Irish Civil War story The Wind that Shakes the Barley leads a strong showing of Irish films at this year's Cannes Film Festival, which runs from May 17 - 28.