Waking The Feminists were honoured for a brave and creative campaign to effect positive change in regard to representation of women in Irish theatre.

West Cork has been named as Ireland’s premier “foodie” destination for 2017.

 

Kathy Scott is a founder of arts production organisation, The Trailblazery. She is also the curator of the Wonderlust stage at the Body&Soul festival, taking place at Ballinlough Castle, Co Westmeath, June 17-19. This year’s Wonderlust lineup includes a public conversation with drum and bass pioneer Goldie.

A D-Day veteran living in Ireland is to be bestowed with France’s highest honour on his 100th birthday.

The founder of a Jack the Ripper Museum has revealed he has received death threats from anti-gentrification protesters — but insisted he won’t give in to their “bullying” tactics.

Tom Hardy puts in a double powerhouse performance as both Ronnie and Reggie Kray, in

From Lock, Stock to his current offering, The Man From U.N.C.L.E, Guy Ritchie has

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Barbara Scully was 10 when her mother dragged her to Jesus Christ Superstar. It was a show that started a hilarious musical journey for the duo. Forty years later, they returned with Barbara’s teenage daughters

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Lindsay Lohan blames her Oprah show for forcing her out of the United States.

Lindsay Lohan has made an unlikely pal in 'The Only Way is Essex' hunk Dan Osborne.

Paul Merton holidayed in Ireland as a child. He visits again this week to perform his improv show at Vicar Street, says Richard Fitzpatrick.

The family of a “gifted and talented” student who disappeared during a college trip to London was given false hope about him being alive when mistakenly told he had boarded a plane home to Ireland.

A man shot dead inside a nightclub in London’s West End on St Stephen's Day has been named by police as Hassan Isman Omer.

The owner of a West End theatre where a ceiling collapsed on to the audience, claimed last year that the venue had “suffered years of benign neglect”.

Teeming with common lodging houses, and home to a criminal underworld of murderers, pornographers and child gangs, TV show Ripper Street is back tonight for a second series.

Cilla Black breaks all the rules. Aged 70, she shouldn’t be pouring us glasses of champagne at 11.30am, after a night out on the town.

Simon Cowell hasn't ruled out getting married to Lauren Silverman.

Musical director Cian McCarthy is bringing Book of Mormon to West End, says Roz Crowley

London is still on a post-Olympics high, and no district of the city is more fashionable than the former stomping ground of gangsters the Krays, writes Dave Kenny

Only a week into his new role as a Performance Consultant with Celtic FC, Jim McGuinness has already seen similarities with his job as Donegal football manager.

Preparations are under way to welcome back an Irish Paralympic team that raised the bar of expectation here and across the sporting world.

When Bethany Firth touched the wall after one minute and 8.93 seconds of the 100m backstroke S14 final shortly before 8pm last night she thought she had done enough to win a bronze.

Skibbereen festival examines the relationship between mental illness and creativity, says Richard Fitzpatrick

Early Aintree casualty Junior could bid for swift compensation in the Coral Scottish Grand National at Ayr on Saturday.

A YOUNG boy, his face pressed firm against the plate glass, points in the direction of a towering, twisting hulk of clay-red metal in the middle distance asks “Is that a roller coaster, daddy?” His father, reading off an inscription on a nearby viewing panel replies: “No son, it says here it’s a piece of art.”

Kanye West has upset Britain's royal family.

His work is unlikely to feature on any Olympics tourist guide to London, yet Australian-born artist Steve Wheen offers an eccentric alternative to the usual city sites, turning every pothole he encounters into a miniature oasis.

JOURNEY’S End towers above its setting in more ways than one — the extra-sized family home on a large plot is on the very uppermost site in Towering Heights, Tower village close to Blarney.

THE stars of the final Harry Potter film joined JK Rowling on a stage in Trafalgar Square for a final tearful farewell to their fans.

NOLAN and Barton.

Detectives were today investigating claims that Everton midfielder Marouane Fellaini assaulted a young model at a nightclub.

Kim Cattrall doesn’t think she’s “posh” because she comes from Liverpool.

Andrew Lloyd Webber and stars of 'Love Never Dies' received a standing ovation at the world premiere of the stage musical.

Jude Law and Rachel Weisz have been named the Best Actor and Actress in a Play.

British fashion designer Alexander McQueen has been found dead after apparently committing suicide at his London home, sources said today.

IT WAS as if some angelic Pearly Kings hovered above London’s East End and then descended on Upton Park.

Keira Knightley has posed nude for a portrait.

Anna Friel has been spotted locking lips with a co-star.