Glen Hansard and Actress Victoria Smurfit join line-up for Late Late Show

Hollywood A-listers and stars of the small screen have joined forces to call for a yes vote on the May 25 Eighth Amendment referendum as part of a video campaign launched last night.

The Irish Film and Drama awards celebrated its 15th year last night and boy, did it pull out all the stops.

Victoria Smurfit returned to Ireland from LA to take a starring role in twisty thriller about to be screened at the Cork Film Festival, writes Esther McCarthy

She has already become a star in the US playing Cruella De Vil. Now Victoria Smurfit has lined up her next major movie role.

Room, Sing Street, and My Name is Emily look set to be the big winners at the Irish Film and Television Awards (Iftas) as they have bagged eight nominations apiece.

THE director of Cork’s Underground Film Festival, Darren O’Mahony, says that while film-makers are delighted that there are three film festivals in Cork — not including the French Film Festival and the Fastnet Short Film Festival in Schull — it’s a lot of competition for limited funding sources.

The IFTA Awards 2015 is all change - including splitting the event in twain to honour Film & Drama in May and TV in October - and there's more change on the way in the form of new presenter Caroline Morahan!

Rachel Pilkington makes plea to Irish Government.

Over 271 of the biggest names in Irish film, television and music have called on Agriculture Minister Simon Coveney to ban fur farming in Ireland.

The Irish Film and Television Awards (IFTAs) are almost upon us, and this year sees a stellar line-up gracing the red carpet.

WITH sales increasing after a slump of a few years, luxurious handbags are back as a key fashion accessory, as evidenced at the recent Paris Fashion Week.

Actress Victoria Smurfit has recalled how she came within inches of death when a gunman opened fire on a taxi she was travelling in while holidaying in South Africa.

While international film stars will be thin on the ground at tonight’s Irish Film and Television Awards in Dublin’s Convention Centre, a huge turnout of Irish stars and celebrities is expected at what is regarded by some as Ireland’s answer to the Oscars.

THE shortlist for the fourth annual Irish Council for Civil Liberties Human Rights Film Awards has been announced in Dublin by a celebrity jury that includes Oscar winner Brenda Fricker, Oscar nominated director Kirsten Sheridan and Senator David Norris.

A SPANISH film exposing the plight of the victims of sex trafficking took grand prize at last night’s prestigious Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) Human Rights Film Awards.

A COMPANY that operates an agency representing some of Ireland’s best known film and stage actors, writers and comedians went into the red last year.

The host of this year's IFTA awards has been announced.

IF, as George Bernard Shaw put, youth is wasted on the young, the pity of it is that it takes so long to find that out.

WHEN one of our most famous sportsmen married actress and author Amy Huberman it was never going to be a quiet registry office wedding, but until the day itself the couple remained secretive about the details of the much-anticipated nuptials, until now.

More than 30,000 revellers will descend on Co Laois today for the Electric Picnic music festival.

Irish beauty Victoria Smurfit is to star in a major small-screen drama series about horse racing, to be shot in Ireland.

A NEW breast cancer drug shown to cut the risk of the disease returning by almost a third is available in Ireland, it was learned yesterday.

Some of Ireland’s top music stars turned out in style tonight to pay homage to veteran DJ Larry Gogan at the IRMA honour’s show.

IT'S a long way from Ballykissangel to Tanzania, but that's where actress Victoria Smurfit will be spending the start of the new year.

IT was a case of “lights, cameras, political action” as many of the country’s best-known film stars turned out yesterday to lend support to the campaign to retain tax incentives for the Irish film industry.

This story, such as it is, comes from a comic-strip but has not been given sufficient work to enlist our full attention. It is a truly dreadful film, full of awful moments and some pretty forgettable acting.

Irish beauty Victoria Smurfit adores being a baddie in her new film, Bulletproof Monk; she plays Nina, the determined and dangerous granddaughter of the evil former Nazi, Struker.