Our team of hurling pundits sift though the contenders in search of winners

The Chicks — they dropped the “Dixie” last month — are back with an album after 14 years, the band at peace with an industry that’s never made nice

The Oscar-winning writer and Hollywood actor tried to drink away the pain. Now he’s trying honesty

Malachy Clerkin gives his verdicts on all the weekend hurling and football action

This ‘film’ doesn’t even have the good grace to be a bad movie. It’s far worse than that

Love Island host is one of the country’s most successful broadcasters operating overseas

Dwayne Johnson, Robert Downey Jr, Bradley Cooper make Forbes list

Main focus is self-protection: It enables a weaker individual overcome a larger assailant

Rebels go on to All-Ireland series despite five-point defeat in Ennis, Clare are out

The Irish Times what-to-see guide to the movies now in cinemas across Ireland

Avengers: Endgame opens on April 25th. It will be the highest grossing film of the year

Cork manager believes next year’s league will facilitate preparation for championship

Clare will have big ambitions this year while Wexford could spring a surprise

The fourth film of the series will be released in April 2019

In a typically frank interview, Kathleen Turner has said she would ‘shoot herself’ if she were like [unnamed very rich actress]

Review: It’s not a good film, but it is clogged with star actors and good jokes

Avengers: Infinity War directors have made sure the new film’s story remains a secret. But if they did tell you, would it really spoil the experience?

Paul Thomas Anderson on directing Daniel Day-Lewis in his final film, Phantom Thread

A week after their Under-17 All-Ireland win, Rebels inflict another defeat on Dublin

Two goals from Evan Sheehan in four minutes set Cork on their way

Acting powerhouses Catherine Frot and Catherine Deneuve are wasted in Martin Provost’s fitful drama

Both sides must do it again on Saturday after extra-time in minor hurling semi-final

Actor says he will voice Facebook chief’s robot assistant if money goes to charity

Money raised funds breakthrough in identifying a key gene linked to motor neurone disease

From scientific inventions to high-level hiring and more than a brush with Hollywood, these women are making business work for them

Donald Clarke previews Sunday night’s award ceremony in Los Angeles

BID property forum aims to deliver a fresh shopping experience in the town centre

Actor pens essay on sexism in the film industry and says she’s tired of being ‘adorable’

Downey (50) earns estimated $80m between June 2014 and June 2015, says magazine

After the bombast of ‘Age of Ultron’, this lo-fi Marvel release is as enjoyably laid-back as its amiable star, Paul Rudd, though the pleasures are decidedly small of scale

Still formidable after all these years, Sigourney takes the parts that interest her, be they big or small. Next up: a possible return to her most famous role in a rebooted ‘Alien’ series

Noted gloom merchant David Fincher has adapted the popcorn-ready bestseller ‘Gone Girl’. The grim result? ‘A very realistic view of marriage’

Noted gloom merchant David Fincher has adapted the popcorn-ready bestseller ‘Gone Girl’. The grim result? ‘A very realistic view of marriage’

The truly rich are so removed from ordinary people’s lives that we never see what they have

Kindly-old-uncle façade hid inner steel and prodigious gift for the macabre

Keating’s Aussie musical among the movies steamrolled by the Brendan O’Carroll juggernaut

A charming cottage in Manor Kilbride, an end-of-terrace in Bray and a seven-bed in Laragh for €1.5m

This year’s South By Southwest film festival features winning movies in ‘Chef’, with Jon Favreau, Dustin Hoffman and Robert Downey jnr, ‘Frank’, with Maggie Gyllenhaal, Michael Fassbender and Domhnall Gleeson; Mike Myers’s ‘Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon’; and ‘The Legend of Shorty’, about the cartel boss Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman

We’ve got the brains, you’ve got the looks - let’s make lots of money

With few heavy-hitters due out next year, it looks like the movie industry is saving it all up for 2015, writes Tara Brady