A new musical tells the true story of the infamous kidnapper Sir Henry, writes Colette Sheridan.

Patrick Bergin plays the part of Jim Tierney on TV3’s Red Rock.

After being to Hollywood and back, Patrick Bergin is happy to be playing a detective in his hometown for the current series of Red Rock, writes Esther McCarthy.

Cillian Murphy may be in the midst of the busiest period of his career, but he was still willing to approach one of his favourite directors to ask for a part in Free Fire, writes Esther McCarthy.

Des O’Driscoll looks at five events going on around the country this week. 

Are you a budding garden designer or fancy a €5,000 facelift for your garden? Super Garden on RTÉ One is gearing up for a ninth series and looking for you to take part. 

Finbar Furey is 70! We feel old.

Singer Shane MacGowan was joined by family, friends and former neighbours as he said goodbye to his mother Therese at her funeral Mass yesterday. Mourners heard she passed on her own musical talent to her son.

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Here are some of the events going on around the country

Good afternoon. Here’s all the news you need to know this lunchtime.

A real-life tale of sexual betrayal and murder in Cork proved irresistible fare for Patrick Bergin to tread the boards once more, writes Ellie O’Byrne

An Irish film based on a story by a West Cork-born writer about young male suicide in modern Ireland, is broadcast on RTÉ tonight.

The stars were out in force last night for this year’s Irish Film and Television Awards.

JUNE RODGERS celebrates 25 years in the entertainment industry this year with her nationwide tour, ‘In the Merry Month of June’.

Your guide on what to look out for on the box this evening.

John B Keane’s pub in Listowel remains the haunt of poets, storytellers and musicians, writes Dónal Hickey

THE spirit of John B Keane will be celebrated in Listowel tonight with the screening of his novel Durango as part of the Kerry Film Festival.

HOLLYWOOD great Maureen O’Hara has spoken of her dream of finding and developing young Irish stars of the screen at a new drama centre which is to be built in her honour in her adopted west Cork home village.

ALMOST all her contemporaries from Hollywood’s Golden Era have passed away.

TWO of Ireland’s leading pop and folk music stars who lost their lives last year have been honoured by their peers at the annual Irish Meteor awards gala.

A CARE home for troubled children recommended for closure five years ago continues to operate despite being branded “totally unsuitable” and despite an instruction to the HSE to rehouse the youngsters immediately.

The extinction of playwright and columnist Hugh Leonard’s dazzling energy has left Ireland a poorer place, his funeral heard today.

Niall Corcoran, Simon Lambert and Justin Burke will all make their championship debuts for Dublin in Sunday's Leinster SHC quarter-final clash with Westmeath (Portlaoise, throw-in 3.50pm).

A FIRST-TIME Irish director fulfilled his own promise to put his home town on the Hollywood map by holding the star-studded world premiere of his first movie in Cork last night.

AN Irish movie is being tipped for Oscar nominations after sweeping the board at a prestigious American film festival.

A FILM shot entirely in Cork, featuring Hollywood stars Richard Chamberlain and Patrick Bergin, is to get its US premiere on September 19.

Cork moviemaker Mark Mahon’s 'Strength and Honour' will be screened at the Rome Film Festival.

Hollywood actor Patrick Bergin joined in the trade union May Day celebrations and praised a character he’s about to play on screen, Irish union firebrand Jim Larkin.

The Rev Ian Paisley has not approved any movie which is being planned about his life, he insisted today.

A Hollywood actor is to pay tribute to one of Ireland’s trade union legends at a rally in Belfast this weekend because of a personal family connection.

Ireland’s largest trade union is to help fund a film about one of the rebels executed following the uprising against British rule in 1916, it announced today.

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.

Samantha Mumba revealed today her latest movie role as a drug addict in thriller Johnny Was brought a real challenge for her.

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.

Director Sean Walsh and star Stephen Rea will be at the Queen's Film Theatre in Belfast on June 15.

Irish actor Patrick Bergin will begin shooting the Arthur S. Maxwell children's story Secret of the Cave on Achill Island at the end of the month

Andrea Corr, lead singer in The Corrs, has won the Best Actress Award at the Colorado Film Festival for her role in The Boys from County Clare.

Think Cinderella and you have the core of this entertaining film; think, too, The Princess Diaries. For this also stars the excellent Hathaway.