From food to fashion, movies to music, our critics reveal their Hot 100 choices for the year ahead.

Irish actress and producer Roma Downey has described as “utter nonsense” chatter sweeping the internet claiming the satan character in her mini-series, The Bible, bears a remarkable resemblance to US President Barack Obama.

THERE’S something in the air in Derry. The great city of St Columcille is the first UK City of Culture, a cultural extravaganza that began in January and will extend all year.

IRELAND should discuss rejoining the Commonwealth, Gay Mitchell has said.

YOU can have a quiet year in Cork, mull over plans for a hotel you’ve bought in Dublin or just potter around the garden in Donegal — and still end up earning millions of euro.

Derry-born beauty Roma Downey, famous for the popular and long-running TV drama Touched by an Angel, in which she played an angel doing good works around America, is keeping her fingers crossed that her feature film career takes off with the release of Funky Monkey.

ACTOR Dustin Hoffman has become the latest US star to voice his opposition to war with Iraq.

Small screen news for fans of the long-running Touched by an Angel ... it's being pulled.

Ireland is the home of four out of six CFT Excellence Award nominees up for best television acting in the 2001 television season.