Little Mix claim third Number 1 on the Official Irish Albums Chart with Confetti

It's not often that an act can have two Number 1 albums in the same calendar year, but for a lucky dozen, that possibility has been a reality. Of the 12 artists and groups who have achieved this rare feat since modern chart records began in 1997, the latest occurring this past week.

It looks like Dermot Kennedy could replace himself at Number 1 on this week's Official Irish Singles Chart following his appearance on RTÉ One's The Late Late Toy Show.

Catholics.Call It Out vowed to take its complaint to the Scottish Government if East Dunbartonshire Council refuses to remove “Taig” from the names in Kirkintilloch, near Glasgow.The Oxford Dictionary lists the word as a “derogatory term for a Catholic or Irish nationalist”.But officials say Taig Road in Waterside was named after Councillor Nathaniel Taig in 1946 and is not an insult.

Congratulations to BTS who claim their second Number 1 on the Official Irish Albums Chart with BE.

Dermot Kennedy is officially the first Irish act to land a Number 1 on the Official Irish Singles Chart in over five years.

Presenter Vogue Williams has a gorgeous and newly decorated £900,000 home in her native Ireland, but she is yet to set foot inside. Owing to the coronavirus pandemic, the sale of the stunning new abode was completed in March but the star has not been able to visit the mansion, which is located in the Howth.

Andrea Corr has dropped a new festive EP, including a cover of Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas. 

Chart battles don't get any closer than the one that is currently unfolding on the Official Irish Singles Chart between Ariana Grande and Dermot Kennedy.

coronavirus restrictions are slightly relaxed.

AC/DC have stormed to Number 1 on the Official Irish Albums Chart with their new album Power Up.

Billie Eilish’s new single Therefore I Am has gone straight in at Number 1 on the Official Irish Singles Chart.

Veteran Irish actor Colm Meaney, star of Star Trek, Con Air and, more recently, crime-caper Pixie and the Sky/AMC series Gangs of London, has joined True Blood's Stephen Moyer in upcoming thriller Confession. Announced by Signature Entertainment and Picture Perfect and from writer/director David Beton (The Hatton Garden Job, Tower Block), the film follows a wounded, bloodied man (Moyer) who takes a priest (Meaney) hostage, hell-bent on confessing a vengeful truth before it’s too late.

Ariana Grande rules the roost on this week’s Official Irish Singles Chart, holding at Number 1 and claiming the highest new entry to boot.

Kylie Minogue and Little Mix are battling for chart supremacy on both sides of the Irish Sea, with a different act leading the race for Number 1 in Ireland currently than in the UK.

Deadline reports that Olivia is to lead the cast in the film that is scheduled to start shooting in the new year.Colman will play a woman called Joy who is a little bit of an ‘odd-ball’ and decides to go on the run with her newborn baby and a street urchin.No other casting announcements have been confirmed as of yet but the production team features some of Ireland’s best.Ailbhe Keoghan pens the script which has been developed by Screen Ireland, with Aoife O’Sullivan and Tristan Orpen Lynch of

Oscar-winner Olivia Colman is set to play the lead role in Irish feel-good film Joyride, marking the first dramatic feature from Emmy winner Emer Reynolds (The Farthest, Shameless) and heading to the American Film Market. The film follows train-wreck Joy (Colman) on an adventure, but ready to give away her newborn baby to her best friend.