Winners of this year’s IMRO Radio Awards revealed

the music industry celebrated over 1,000 venues, festivals and theatres being awarded Cultural Recovery Funding to survive until April and weather the storm of closures and complications brought on by the coronavirus pandemic – before a second round of funding was announced on Saturday, rescuing another wave of arts spaces and organisations.With the results of the CRF funding for Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland to be revealed across the coming weeks, the Music Venue Trust have welcomed the

A post shared by Paul Mescal (@paul.mescal) on Oct 19, 2020 at 5:49am PDTSpeaking to GQ magazine, the Normal People star spoke about his ‘wonderfully normal’ childhood, where he grew up with his mother, who was a Garda, and his father who was a school teacher.

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.

For those looking to refresh their home it seems there’s a very nifty way to do so, courtesy of IKEA.The store has a new Buy Back initiative happening, which means UK and Ireland stores will buy back unwanted and old IKEA furniture for customers.The furniture bought back will then be resoled in stores as second hand items.The Buy Back plan is part of IKEA’s desire to become a climate-positive business by 2030, and the popular furniture chain already has a standalone second-hand store in Sweden.

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..

Hollywood director Martin Scorsese will lead a star-studded Irish Film and Television Awards ceremony (Iftas) on Sunday evening.

Rosie Carney has recorded her own take on Radiohead‘s ‘The Bends’, which is set to arrive later this year.

The list also shines a light of Dublin rockers U2 who have added an extra €8million in the kitty making them Ireland’s richest entertainers.Between them, Bono, Adam, Larry and The Edge share a fortune of €670million.Michael Flatley takes the third spot on the top ten list of Ireland’s top entertainers and sports people, with €234million (up €2million).

Sending lots of positive thoughts to Irish singer Sinead O’Connor!

Good Housekeeping, the interiors and property expert shared how often she believes bed sheets should be washed - and not everyone agrees. Related: Mary Berry receives amazing honour from the Queen! "Once I was on a chat show with Graham Norton.

Jordan Moreau Tom Parker, a singer for for the British-Irish boy band The Wanted, has revealed he’s been diagnosed with a terminal brain tumor.In an Instagram post on Monday morning, Parker announced the news to his followers, saying he’s currently receiving treatment for a grade four glioblastoma tumor.“Hey guys, you know that we’ve both been quiet on social media for a few weeks and it’s time to tell you why.

Bono and friends are top of the pops.

EVOKE as she launched Ireland’s newest online baby, nursery and toy website, Kaliedy, she shared the interesting origins of Aidan Powers friendship with Tom Hanks.Explaining the background to the story, Anna said, ‘Aidan Power is absolutely fanatical about typewriters! So he and Tom Hanks collect typewriters.’‘Tom Hanks is a massive collector of typewriters right, and so is Aidan Power.’‘So Aidan sent Tom Hanks a letter from his typewriter, a pure nerdy one explaining the model of the typewriter

The house was in fact previously owned by a Florence Balcombe who was a much-loved Irish socialite at the turn of the 20th century.Though she came from meagre means, she dated Oscar Wilde for two years at the age of 17, then married Bram Stoker and after his death, managed to successfully sue the makers of iconic black and white film, Nosferatu.Following that she was able to sue the Hollywood company who bought the rights to that movie too as this was an unauthorised film adaptation of her

But don’t think for one second it was an easy feat or luck of the Irish, though he certainly made it look that way! The 29-year-old spent the two weeks’ notice he had honing his skills, with his boyfriend of two years, Josh Harrison, on tasting duty.