‘Jessie has already finished in glory,’ father says as Kerry holds its breath

Irish Academy Award nominees Jessie Buckley, Richard Baneham, John Kelly and Andrew Freedman will all be at Sunday night’s ceremony

March 14th-20th highlights: including Turbulence: The Story of Ryanair, The Other Bennet Sister and the Oscars

Unless Los Angeles slides into the sea, the Hamnet star will become the first Irish winner of the best actress Academy Award

This year’s awards come at a moment of flux and uncertainty for the gilm industry

If Jessie Buckley wins the leading-actress award for Hamnet this weekend, she’ll join an illustrious group of Irish winners

Several other Irish and international artists, including surviving Pogues, will contribute to 20th Century Paddy album

I did what I could to connect the playwright with Ireland, but it was a stretch

Streaming services, digital rentals and catch-up cinema screenings mean you can see all of this year’s key contenders

New film starring Jessie Buckley, a giant riff on Whale’s horror, might send audiences back to 1935 classic

Actor from Killarney makes the comments to Lauren Laverne during an episode of BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs

Felines have been the signal beneficiaries of modern internet culture over the past decade

Irish Oscar-nominee Jessie Buckley says it is a ‘misconception’ that she hates cats

Early Edition with Aideen Finnegan

Let’s hope a re-emergence of the actor’s bold declaration that she doesn’t like cats won’t mean she faces kitty karma on Oscar night

Maggie Gyllenhaal’s sincerely intended but slightly rickety The Bride! just about gets by on suave style and committed performances

Sinners and Michael B Jordan are big winners at the former SAG (Screen Actors Guild) awards; Paul Mescal loses out to Sean Penn for best supporting actor

Kara Owen: The British ambassador to Ireland on her strongest childhood memory, her favourite Irish restaurant, and the actor she would like to play her in a biopic of her life

Linguistic detectives believe Shakespeare would have said ‘divil’ instead of ‘devil’ and would have drunk a cup of ‘tay’

From backless gowns to daring men's wear, here are some of the standout looks from this year’s Bafta red carpet