Gogglebox stars Dawn and Dale tie the knot after 11 years together

After an overnight stay in hospital forced her to cancel her trip to Northern Ireland earlier this week, it’s been reported that Queen Elizabeth will be cutting back on her workload amid concerns for her health.

One of the this seasons’ most anticpated new films had its Irish preview screening this week with a sea of well known faces in attendance.

Kenneth Branagh’s Belfast screened in D.C. on Monday night, drawing representatives from Ireland, Great Britain and the city itself, but the novelty of the moment was the fact that there was an in-person event at all.

Belfast is not only being backed for success at next year’s Oscars but it’s now being backed to lay down a marker at the SAG (Screen Actors Guild) Awards. The Northern Irish coming-of-age film took home the coveted People's Choice Award at the Toronto International Film Festival in September, and is now 7/4 favourite from 5/2 to win the SAG Award for Best Film Ensemble.

Naman Ramachandran James Bond film “No Time to Die” ruled the U.K. and Ireland box office for the third weekend in succession collecting £8.4 million ($11.5 million), according to numbers from Comscore.Daniel Craig’s swan song now has an impressive total of £68.5 million.

High-profile celebrity sightings have become a very common occurrence around Ireland of late and Sofia Vergara and Joe Manganiello have become the latest Hollywood superstars have touched down on our shores.

Anything for his daughters. On a recent episode of The Tonight Show, Matt Damon, 50, shared a hilarious story about his daughters giving him quite the hair makeover — a red mohawk. It just so happens the actor had a FaceTime with the mayor of Dalkey, Ireland.

Best dad ever! Matt Damon may be rocking his normal hairdo in present day, but as it turns out, he let his kids give him quite the tress transformation during their stay in Ireland over the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Irish musician Sharon Corr has joked she is ‘clueless’ about meeting a new man as the dating world has changed so much in the 23 years since she was last on the market.

Warpaint have announced details of their first UK and European tour in five years.The four-piece are currently working on the follow-up to their 2016 album ‘Heads Up’, while they released the track ‘Lilys’ back in April.Warpaint will return to the UK and Europe in 2022 for a number of tour dates in May and June, kicking off with a run of dates in the UK and Ireland.The band’s tour will visit Bristol, Manchester, Glasgow, Dublin and Bexhill, before the leg concludes in London on May 18, 2022.

Matt Damon became Ireland’s number one celebrity in 2020 after he was trapped here during lockdown.

Kenneth Branagh’s Belfast tells the story of a fictional nine-year-old version of himself during the Troubles in late 1960s Northern Ireland. Today, he told Deadline’s Contenders Film: London event that he had long wanted to write something about the city, but was thinking “perhaps there was a story about my grandparents,” until the pandemic came around.

The pink carpet was rolled out last night for the Irish premiere of Deadly Cuts with the glittering cast in attendance.

Sign up for our daily newsletter to get the day's biggest stories sent direct to your inbox

21st Belfast Film Festival on November 4 at The ICC Belfast in the Waterfront Hall will be introduced by Branagh himself and attended by some of the film’s A-list cast in what will be a glittering homecoming night for the film. And tickets for Belfast will go on sale on Friday October 8 at 10am.

With his popular YouTube channel, several TV gigs and soon-to-be 10 cookbooks to his name, Donal Skehan is one busy man.