Why Irish woman Maura Dore took on Channel 4’s latest reality show The Bridge

The Vamps claim the highest new entry on this week’s Official Irish Albums Chart as their fifth album Cherry Blossom scores a Top 10 debut at Number 9.

So much for a romantic getaway!

Tom Grater International Film ReporterThe winners of the 2020 Irish Film & Television Academy Awards were announced last night, with Lesley Manville and Liam Neeson pic Ordinary Love winning Best Film, presented by Martin Scoresese. Tom Vaughan-Lawlor won Best Actor in Film for Rialto, which also scooped the Scriptwriter prize for Mark O’Halloran.

Films such as Ordinary Love, Black '47 and Rosie, and actors Andrew Scott and Jessie Buckley have won big at the Irish Film & Television Academy (IFTA) awards last night..

not his wife, we had a little snoop at his family-owned castle right here in Ireland.It turns out you can rent out the rather grand West household in Limerick for a whooping €7,000 a night.If you’ve ever wondered what it looks like behind closed doors in chez Dominic and Catherine, well you need wonder no more.Glin Castle actually belonged to the family of Dominic’s wife Catherine FitzGerald; the castle has been the ancestral home of the FitzGerald family, the Knights of Glin, for over 700 years

Headie One claims the highest new entry on this week’s Official Irish Albums Chart, while Fleetwood Mac’s latest retrospective reaches a new peak.

After splitting up in March this year, exes Maura Higgins and Curtis Pritchard nearly risked bumping into each other as they attended the same event on Thursday night. Maura, 29, and Curtis, 24, both attended Thorpe Park's Fright Nights but thankfully there wasn't any frights, as they didn't end up coming face to face.The Irish lass wore a black puffer jacket, some flared ripped jeans and trainers, while wearing her hair in a messy high bun.

Maura Higgins has revealed she’s finally ready to move on from Curtis Pritchard after being celibate since splitting from her Love Island boyfriend in March.While it’s thought Curtis has moved on with fellow dancer Amber Pierson, the Irish ring girl turned reality star admitted that her love life has been a bit dry during lockdown (join the club, hun).But although she’s been out of the dating game for a while, Maura’s keen to find a new man and settle down after taking some time to focus on

The Bridge.The Channel 4 reality series is a new offering from the station which sees 12 contestants work together to build a bridge (we could’ve guessed from the name) for a chance to win £100,000.A hefty sum we could all do with a slice of after the turmoil of 2020!Along with 11 other contestants, Irish woman Maura Dore will be trying her luck at building the bridge out to an island in the British countryside.The series will be narrated by His Dark Materials star James McAvoy and will take

The Irish television production sector will receive a €3 million boost with a fund to increase production and provide new jobs.

Mariah Carey opened up about dating Derek Jeter in the late 1990s as her marriage to Tommy Mottola came to an end.“He was a catalyst that helped me get out of that relationship because I believed that there was somebody else [out there for me],” the five-time Grammy winner, 50, told Oprah Winfrey on Apple TV+’s The Oprah Conversation on Thursday, September 24.“It was the racial situation — you know, his mom is Irish, his dad is Black — but he was also very ambiguous looking to me,” she recalled.

Dr Anthony Fauci, director of the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, will be among the guests on this Friday's Late Late Show.