Davy Fitzgerald’s Mahoney family crowned Ireland’s Fittest Family

Was it important to shoot the series on location?It makes a big difference to me. I left Northern Ireland in 1985 to go to drama school but it’s still very much home.

Niall Doherty Fontaines D.C. frontman Grian Chatten thinks that everything, good and bad, that has happened to his band over the past few years can be traced back to a piece of advice he once received from a friend.

Naman Ramachandran New York-based The Writers Lab has launched The Writers Lab U.K. and Ireland, with a script development program for women over 40.

Veteran TV and radio broadcaster Mark Cagney has revealed he suffered two strokes at the start of the year.

coronavirus crisis, including a €25 million expansion of its popular Live Performance Support Scheme (LPSS).Government minister Catherine Martin unveiled the new measures yesterday (March 9), which also includes €14m for a new programme called the Music Entertainment Business Assistance Scheme (MEBAS), that will contribute to the overheads of music businesses affected by the coronavirus crisis.The LPSS was first launched last November as a €5 million and saw “exceptional demand.” Initial

Mubi, the arthouse streaming platform, and theatrical distributor has signed a deal for Céline Sciamma's Petite Maman, picking up all rights in the U.K., Ireland and Turkey for the new French-language drama from the director of Portrait of a Lady on Fire. Petite Maman premiered in competition at the 2021 Berlin International Film Festival last week.

Naman Ramachandran Theatrical distributor and global curated film streaming service MUBI has picked up well-regarded Berlinale title, French auteur Céline Sciamma’s “Petite Maman.”MUBI has acquired all rights for the U.K., Ireland and Turkey, for the film that was in competition at the Berlinale. MK2 Films is handling international sales.“Petite Maman” follows eight-year-old Nelly who has just lost her beloved grandmother and is helping her parents clean out her mother’s childhood home.

Arthouse streamer and distributor Mubi has acquired all rights for Céline Sciamma’s well-received Berlin Film Festival title Petite Maman for the UK, Ireland and Turkey.

The Killers have once again rescheduled their UK stadium tour dates, pushing the huge shows back to summer 2022.The band had initially been set out to hit the road in support of ‘Imploding The Mirage‘ in summer 2020, before those dates were delayed to this year and set to kick off in May 2021.

Ghetts has today (March 8) shared details of a UK and Ireland tour for November.The rapper, who released his third album ‘Conflict Of Interest‘ last month, will kick things off at Dublin’s Academy on November 13 before wrapping the tour with a homecoming show at London’s Roundhouse on November 20.Tickets go on sale this Friday, March 12.Ghetts UK and Ireland tour 2021:NOVEMBERSaturday 13 – Academy, Dublin Sunday 14 – Albert Hall, Manchester Wednesday 17 – O2 Institute, Birmingham Thursday 18 –

Former Miss Universe Ireland Fionnghuala O’Reilly is the epitome of brains and beauty. The pageant queen is not only an accomplished model, she’s also an engineer, a proud NASA datanaut and most recently a correspondent on CBS’s Emmy nominated Mission Unstoppable, a show that celebrates female STEM superstars in leading fields.

Covid test kits due to a Border Force mix up.The 36 Ryanair passengers arriving from Dublin last Friday, February 26 argued they were not required to buy the home-testing kits because they had been in Ireland for more than 10 daysThe UK Government's Border Force has apologised for its mistake which caused "general panic."The airport blamed inaccurate guidance from the Scottish Government for the confusion and accused it of a 'lack of engagement', saying 'passengers were paying the price'.Full

Dennis Harvey Film CriticThough there have been occasions to wish he didn’t write so much of it, nobody writes dialogue quite like Quentin Tarantino. We know that because so very, very many have tried, fueling a whole subgenre of blatant “Reservoir Dogs” and “Pulp Fiction” imitations that mercifully began subsiding around the turn of the millennium, but still pop up at least a couple times per year.

Nomadland is going to be released straight to Disney+ in UK and Ireland, it has been confirmed.The Golden Globe-winner (Best Motion Picture – Drama) will be made available on the Star strand of the streaming platform, which launched last month to host adult-focused productions.Disney said the film will be made available to cinemas when they re-open but that is not expected to be before May 17.Based on the non-fiction book Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century by Jessica

Cynthia Littleton Business EditorCathleen Young didn’t know anything about accounting, fundraising, human resources or running a nonprofit organization when she joined the Humanitas Prize as executive director in 2007.