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

MATTHEW OSBORN grew up in the well-heeled surroundings of Sussex on the southeast coast of England, where lie the bones of 500,000-year-old hominids and Hastings. Not much going on in those parts, he says, with the exception of bubbling bourgeoisie tension.

Adam Hills, the host of ‘The Last Leg’, returns to Ireland this week (Friday, Sept 27) for a gig at Vicar St. The 43-year-old Australian comic lived in Dublin for three years at the turn of the millennium. It was formative.

TIME to get the green face paint ready. St Patrick’s Day is less than a month away and revellers were yesterday promised a feast of events to mark the event.

Dublin's Laughter Lounge is re-opening tonight after a three-year closure for reconstruction.