CORK Film Festival 2013 mixed old and new in this year’s programme, the first under new director James Mullighan. For fans of the big screen, it was a hectic nine days, and the event brought many surprises and rewards.

The Vice President of the United States, Joe Biden, is to visit Ireland later this year.

With the director Stephen Spielberg ending up in a bidding war with his wife for one of the items at the charity auction, it was no wonder the event raised more than €250,000 towards the building of a hospice in Wicklow — and they are still counting.

Despite a reputation for being an intense and reclusive actor, Daniel Day-Lewis responded unexpectedly when he received a birthday card, Caroline O’Doherty reports

A YOUNG man with a prosthetic leg and a walking cane drinks beer with his girlfriend in a café on the main square.

Animal rights groups plan to picket the circus from which an elephant escaped before going walkabout in a Cork City car park.

Ciarán Hinds, star of film and TV, returns to the Abbey after 20 years, in Juno and the Paycock, says Pádraic Killeen.

SUPERMODEL Linda Evangelista once jokingly said: “We don’t get out of bed for less than for less than $10,000 a day.”

IN An Enemy of the People, a village doctor discovers that the waters of the health spa are contaminated.

THEY may begin with professions of undying devotion and star-studded wedding ceremonies, but celebrity marriages often end in the divorce courts.

Jessica Simpson has pulled out of a tribute to Dolly Parton after Simpson was unhappy with her second attempt to perform Dolly's hit song '9 to 5'.

The opening minutes of Saving Private Ryan have been voted the best movie battle scenes of all time.

Ulster-born Liam Neeson is to join the Mouse Factory - that's the Walt Disney Pictures studio - to play a lion.

The Rev Ian Paisley’s Democratic Unionist Party was today accused seeking to humiliate the IRA with its demand for visible decommissioning of the terror group’s arsenal of weapons.

Shooting on 'Mission: Impossible 3' will be delayed until next year because Tom Cruise has been forced to find a new director.

IRELAND will lose out on the biggest Hollywood film earmarked for the country unless the Government retains lucrative tax breaks for the industry.

Leo mania took off for the second time in three weeks when heartthrob Leonardo DiCaprio jetted into the UK – on the arms of a bevy of air hostesses.

Royle Family star Ricky Tomlinson was set to marry his long-term love today.

Mark Schulman,