Jonathan Rhys Meyers has a busy few months coming up. In addition to saying goodbye to his popular Showtime series “The Tudors,” the Irish actor will also premiere his film with John Travolta, “From Paris With Love,” and begin shooting another project with Kevin Bacon in Belfast.

Mariah Carey’s request to have 20 white kittens at a Christmas lights switch-on has been blocked.

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Roisin Murphy returns to the fray on November 13 with the release here of her “Orally Fixated” single, which is currently streaming on her MySpace page.

Enda Walsh is securing his reputation as the most provocative Irish playwright of his generation. In his new play “The New Electric Ballroom”, now playing at St. Ann’s Warehouse in Brooklyn, he has written his best work yet.

Westlife singer Nicky Byrne's dad, Nicky Sr., died suddenly on Tuesday, and Byrne, who was in London at the time, has now flown back to his native Ireland to be with his family.

Who’s the leading contender to win the Academy Award in February for Best Actress? According to the influential Los Angeles Times, it’s none other than Irish actress Saoirse Ronan.

English musical theater actress Elaine Paige says Susan Boyle is just like Evita.

The hunt is now on to locate Stephen Gately's will, which was supposed to be unveiled to his family on Thursday.

Morrissey made a triumphant return to the stage on Tuesday night. The Irish-English singer, who was hospitalized after collapsing onstage with breathing difficulties last weekend, performed at London’s Royal Albert Hall, showing no sign of difficulty in performing.

The Irish twins at the center of the latest season of the “X Factor” British talent show are public enemy number one among some fans of the mega hit TV show.

Bob Geldof's daughter Peaches, 20, says her charity mad father is like an "Irish potato famine miser." Peaches, who was born one day shy of St Patrick's Day in 1989, made the comment after revealing that her millionaire father never paid her pocket money.

Kevin Spacey has been based in London these past few years, at the helm of the storied Old Vic Theatre there, but the Oscar winner certainly has plenty of good things to say about the state of Irish theater and its myriad talents, particularly the likes of Conor McPherson, Enda Walsh, Garry Hynes and Martin McDonagh. (Okay, the latter is British-born, but his shows are Irish through and through).

In “Turning Green,” an American-born teenager growing up in Ireland finds a novel way to finance his return to the freedom of New York -- by selling soft core girlie mags on the black market to the local men queuing up to buy them. The new film stars Academy Award winner Timothy Hutton and Colm Meaney, and features the debut of Irish newcomer Donal Gallery. We talk to the film’s writer and its young breakout star.

Ronan Keating and the rest of the surviving members of Irish boy band Boyzone will bring Stephen Gately’s body home to Ireland, it was confirmed today.

She discusses everything with Pebbles, her rags-to-riches rise, her joy at finally making it on the world stage and how surprised everyone is that she finally made even even though she knew it would happen someday.

There are only two teams left in the New York Senior football County Championship: Down and Cork. Eugene Kyne preview the game and wonders what team will popping the champagne this Sunday in the 125th anniversary year of the GAA in Ireland and the 95th year of football in the Big Apple.

Actress Anna Friel’s nude scene in the West End production of “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” is causing quite a stir.

"Twilight" star Robert Pattinson today revealed that he is a first class amadan. That's Irish for fool! Turns out that Pattinson, currently shooting "Eclipse" in Vancouver, had no idea that the "Twilight" series would be so big. He says he only knew one person who had actually read any of the "Twilight" books and so he thought the films would be "something really small."

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Tony Sutherland senior has denied his son Darren, an Olympic bronze medalist, was depressed in the period before he killed himself in his London flat.

Evanna Lynch and Matthew Lewis, who play Luna Lovegood and Neville Longbottom, respectively, have revealed some details from behind the scenes of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.”

Tony and Linda Sutherland will be guests of Ryan Tubridy on RTE’s The Late Late Show tonight to talk of the recent death of their Olympic bronze medal winning son Darren, who took his own life in

Tragic Irish boxer Darren Sutherland was supposed to see a top psychologist the same day he was found dead in London. The 27-year-old Olympic star had been on the verge of giving up boxing, saying that he felt adrift in the boxing world. His trainer, Brian Lawrence, said that Sutherland had "poured his heart out" just 10 days ago over his fears for his future.

As many as 35,000 brand new homes are lying vacant in Ireland, according to the country’s largest securities firm, Davy. That figure is up from 20,000 just 18 months ago.

Michael Jackson’s older brother Jermaine made a pit stop in Dublin on Friday en route from Vienna to appear on the “Late Late Show,” where he revealed to host Ryan Tubridy that Ireland was Michael’s “getaway” place to escape from all the madness in his ultimately tragic life.

Tributes have been paid to Darren Sutherland, the Irish Olympic medal-winning boxer who was found dead at his apartment in London yesterday.

Guy Ritchie has revealed that his favorite music tops anything his ex-wife Madonna sings. The British director plays guitar in an Irish ceili group at the pub he bought with the pop superstar last year, The Punch Bowl.

Colin Farrell lost his temper with photographers on the red carpet for the premiere of his latest movie at the Toronto Film Festival. The Irish actor became enraged when the press repeatedly shouted for his sister to move so that they could get a clear shot of the star.

Video / Kate storms out of GQ Awards / Click here Seems like Irish wit is too much for the English rose Kate Moss. The supermodel stormed out - although some say she sloshed out - of the glitzy

Irish actor Jonathan Rhys Meyers, who plays the lusty King Henry VIII in “The Tudors,” insists that having sex with about 20 people is “not so much.”

Irish director Neil Jordan says he's not surprised that Colin Farrell and new lady love Alicja Bachleda-Curus are ready to welcome a new baby into their

Father Tim: This is how great Irish jokes, as well as great children, are born. Roman Catholic couples should pray together before they have sex, says a new book published by a prominent Church group. It invites those setting out on married life to recite the specially-composed "Prayer Before Making Love."

Louth native Evanna Lynch, who plays Luna Lovegood in the “Harry Potter” series, has been nominated for her first ever award. Lynch has been nominated for Best Supporting Actress for “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” at Spike TV’s SCREAM Awards.

London Rose Charmaine Kenny was crowned Rose of Tralee at the Dome in Tralee on Wednesday night.

Celtic bowed out of the UEFA Champions League after a shocking dive from Eduardo helped Arsenal on their way to a 3-1 second leg win at the Emirates Stadium. The Gunners moved into the group stages 5-1 on aggregate.

IrishCentral has learned that Sen. Edward Kennedy has received the Last Rites from the Catholic Church as he continues to battle a deadly brain cancer.

Rackett includes amongst its members a world expert on Milton and a scholar of renaissance polyphony, but most famously its songs are composed by Pulitzer prize-winning Irish poet, Paul Muldoon.

Marc-Antoine Fortune helped himself to a double as Celtic beat St Johnstone 5-2 in the opening home game of the league campaign. Shaun Maloney also struck twice while Scott McDonald netted Celtic's fifth of the afternoon.

American cycling champion Lance Armstrong is signing off for the year in Ireland. Armstrong - who is racing in the three-day Tour of Ireland - has decided to make the Irish race his last official race for the year.

No, the double Olympic Gold medalist from Jamaica who broke the 100m and 200m records this week does not trace his great-grandfather to Ballyvorney in County Cork, but the man who helped guide his career is agent Ricky Simms, who hails from County Donegal.

Featuring 21 Irish playwrights, 12 venues and 375 artists over five weeks from September 1 to October 4, the second New York Irish Theatre Festival has doubled in size since its inaugural year in 2008.

Celtic’s hopes of reaching the group stages of the UEFA Champions League suffered a huge blow after two freak goals gave Arsenal a 2-0 win in the first leg of the play-off.

An Irish Facebook user has fallen victim to an international scam whereby fraudsters hijack a user's account and pretend to be the user. The scammers hack into the user's Facebook account and then message all the friends saying they've been mugged in

A crazed fan “freaked out” Irish actor Colin Farrell on the set of his new film, “London Boulevard,” causing him to scream “like someone had shot him.”

U2 broke another record on Friday night when they played in front of 88,000 people at Wembey stadium, breaking the record attendance at the venue, previously held by U.S. rockers The Foo Fighters, by 5,000.

Irish actor Colin Farrell - currently filming "London Boulevard" with Anna Friel - is the top choice for fantasy father in Ireland. A whopping 23 percent of Irish women said they would like hard-partying Farrell to be the father of their child.

The 1970 Irish film “Ryan’s Daughter” was carpeted by critics and bombed at the box office but it put Dingle in County Kerry on the map. Now, English actress Sarah Miles - who played Rosy Ryan in the movie - is penning a sequel and Dingle locals are wondering what's next!

Uma Thurman has for the first time spoken publicly about mourning the loss of her friend, Irish actor Liam Neeson’s late wife Natasha Richardson.

Glasgow Celtic’s reward for their amazing comeback win over Dinamo Moscow is a fourth round Champions League qualifying draw with Arsenal.