Keelin Shanley, Marian Finucane, Jack Charlton: Remembering those we lost in 2020

We imagine that when you’re on live radio and something funny happens, it can be very difficult to try and control your laughter.

Despite the closure of physical stores through lockdown and delays to the manufacturing process because of the COVID-19 pandemic, albums consumption increased overall in Ireland in 2020, with Dermot Kennedy claiming the biggest album of the year.

Bruce Springsteen claims Ireland’s best-selling new vinyl release of the year with Letter To You.

Despite the unprecedented challenges of 2020, overall consumption of recorded music in Ireland rose year-on-year, the Irish Recorded Music Association (IRMA) can confirm today.

Dermot Kennedy’s Giants was the biggest song released in 2020 by a homegrown artist.

Singing sisters the Nolans are from an Irish family of eight children, however it recently emerged that they have a long-lost half-sister who Linda and Maureen appealed to find on Ray D’Arcy’s radio show recently.Their father had an affair, and the woman welcomed a bay girl who was believed to have been born around 1952 and would therefore be the same age as Denise, who’s 68.Their mission to find their sister was explored on their TV show At Home with the Nolans, and Maureen put her DNA into a

EXCLUSIVE:  IFC Films has picked up the U.S. and Canada rights to Paolo Pilladi’s comedy Last Call, which the filmmaker directed, produced and co-wrote. IFC is eyeing a theatrical release this year.

It seems time flies when you’re in love, or so it seems for Irish actor Allen Leech and his wife Jessica Blair Herman.

The box office for the U.K. and Ireland —somewhat unsurprisingly —slumped by a record margin in 2020, down 76 percent from 2019.

Naman Ramachandran The early 2020 box office success of Sam Mendes’ “1917” was one of the few bright sparks in a U.K. and Ireland box office shattered by the impact of coronavirus, according to Comscore’s annual report.The report notes that after five consecutive years when the cinema box office for the territory exceeded £1.3 billion ($1.76 billion), widespread lockdowns in 2020 resulted in a 76% drop in revenues.

John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentSavaged by COVID-19, global box office plunged between 57% and 76% in major markets outside the U.S., with the U.K. and Ireland leading the rout, crashing 76% against 2019, according to a Comscore study, published Wednesday.Also hit hard were China (-70%), South Korea (-71%), and Italy and Spain (both down 72%).

Marian Keyes has a major reason to celebrate today as she marks her silver wedding anniversary.

Charlie Haughey’s wife, Maureen, declined an invitation to attend an awards ceremony at which her husband and his mistress, Terry Keane, would be star guest, newly released State papers show.

Even though it was routed by Clemson in its last game, Notre Dame’s Fighting Irish will be in the College Football Playoffs for the national title.

LeaseCar.uk, which compiled the list, said: “The English language never fails to amaze us, and neither does the imagination and creativity that must have gone into naming these iconic places around Great Britain and Ireland.   “We’re not sure how residents of Nasty and Crapstone convince people they're nice places to live with names like that – Bunny in Nottinghamshire sounds much better!” Besses o'th 'Barn, Bury How the Bury town got its unusual name remains a bit of a mystery.