Belinda Carlisle may have cancelled her Cork show on Wednesday due to a throat infection, but there are plenty more opportunities on the way for fans of 20th-century popular music.

The bullet that killed President John F Kennedy in November, 1963 has never stopped travelling. Ever since that fateful day in Dallas there have been dozens of theories about who was responsible for his death.

From film to fashion, books to TV, our writers pick the best cultural highlights of the season.

De Niro plays former hitman Frank “The Irishman” Sheeran with Joe Pesci assuming the role of Russell Bufalin.

The electorate has the chance to break the Republicans’ lock on government in possibly the most consequential midterm elections in US history, writes Elizabeth Drew AHEAD of this week’s US midterm elections, domestic

WHAT are you dressing up as for Halloween? Our extended household is using it as an opportunity for catharsis, a high colonic for the head, for flushing out all the hideousness that’s been flowing in front of our weary eyes so far this year (not that this year is near over, but we’ve had ten months of crap), writes Suzanne Harrington.

WHAT are you dressing up as for Halloween? Our extended household is using it as an opportunity for catharsis, a high colonic for the head, for flushing out all the hideousness that’s been flowing in front of our weary eyes so far this year (not that this year is near over, but we’ve had ten months of crap), writes Suzanne Harrington.

The discovery came after a series of glass-filled pipe bombs targeted Hillary Clinton, former president Barack Obama and other prominent Democrats.

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Some of the world’s biggest names in Hollywood are currently filming on these shores as a wave of movie and TV productions get underway.

“It’s no longer just down with Trump, it’s f**k”.

Des O’Driscoll shares the latest news from the entertainment world.

Irish artists have been nominated in 5 categories at the 2018 Golden Globes.

Jake LaMotta, who died last month at the age of 95, wasn’t the best middleweight boxer of the late 1940s, though he did hold the world title in that division for two years.

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Riley Keough is the daughter of Lisa Marie Presley and granddaughter of Elvis and Priscilla. Now the actress is a celebrity in her own right, says Taffy Brodesser Akner.

Will this year’s Academy Award winners use their moment at the microphone to talk politics? Suzanne Harrington provides some inspiration and takes a look at the best – and worst – protest speeches.

Peter Gowen was born Youghal, Co Cork, and now lives in London. He is currently on tour with Decadent’s production of The Pillowman by Martin McDonagh. Upcoming dates include Everyman Theatre, Cork, 7-11 Nov; as well as Civic Theatre, Tallaght, 21-22 Oct; and Lime Tree, Limerick, Nov 4-5.

Bosnia and Herzegovina: Hundreds of Sarajevo taxi drivers have stuck posters of Robert De Niro on their cabs in tribute to the actor who will open the city’s film festival on Friday with a screening of Taxi Driver.

Artemis Fowl author Eoin Colfer has written a play based on his oldest friend’s diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis, writes Colette Sheridan

Crime — of the fictional variety — seems to be paying off for Ireland’s best-selling children’s author Eoin Colfer, with accumulated profits at his company topping €3m last year.

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.

New operators are being sought for the bar at Shannon Airport named after the inventor of Irish coffee and where US president Barack Obama had his first pint of Guinness.

Robert De Niro is removing Vaxxed, the anti-vaccination documentary from the lineup of his Tribeca Film Festival, after initially defending its inclusion.

Doctor Thorne, from Julian Fellowes, begins on UTV Ireland tomorrow at 9pm, starring Rebecca Front, Tom Hollander, Ian McShane and Stefanie Martini.

To commemorate last night’s Oscars, hotel comparison site trivago.ie compiled a list of 10 hotels featured in recent movies.

Opening in Copenhagen in 1926, The Danish Girl (15A) centres on recently married artists Einar (Eddie Redmayne) and Gerda Wegener (Alicia Vikander). 

The story of Peggy Guggenheim was of a life less ordinary, writes Richard Fitzpatrick

Saoirse Ronan has described her new film, Brooklyn, as “the story of my people”.

An ageing gangster went on trial on charges he was in on the $6m Lufthansa holdup in 1978, a legendary theft dramatised in the hit film Goodfellas.

Justin Kurzel’s version of William Shakespeare’s Macbeth (15A) opens with an extraordinarily vivid battle scene, as loyal Macbeth (Michael Fassbender) goes to war on behalf of King Duncan (David Thewlis).

Crime pays — at least the fictional kind — for Ireland’s best selling children’s author Eoin Colfer, as accumulated profits at his book firm topped €2.6m last year.

Oliver Sacks, the neurologist and author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat, has died aged 82.

Al Pacino discusses his new film with Shilpa Ganatra , and also offers a solution for those who can’t afford the prices for his live appearance in Ireland

Hidden stories, the Lusitania, and alien invasions are all on TV tonight

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Charlie Cox feels the pressure of playing a Catholic superhero in a major new Netflix series, writes Ed Power