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Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, and Sharon Horgan board respective Oscar-qualified Irish short films |
| 12 Dec 2024 | Three of Ireland’s leading talents have been revealed as executive producers for Oscar-qualified short films Room Taken, The Boat, and Calf. |
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Brendan Gleeson's Farewell to Hughes’s to debut on TG4 & TG4.ie at 8:30pm on December 29th |
| 12 Dec 2024 | TG4 has confirmed the broadcast of Brendan Gleeson’s Farewell to Hughes’s, a poignant documentary exploring the legacy of Hughes’s, an unassuming Dublin pub that left an indelible mark on traditional Irish music. |
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Éanna Hardwicke and Eddie Marsan to star in new Irish thriller No Ordinary Heist |
| 10 Dec 2024 | Actors Eddie Marsan (Back To Black, Happy Go Lucky) and Éanna Hardwicke (Lakelands, The Sixth Commandment) are set to lead the cast of No Ordinary Heist, a gripping new Irish thriller inspired by the largest cash heist in UK and Irish history. |
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Over 1.6 million people watched The Late Late Toy Show 2024 across the weekend |
| 10 Dec 2024 | RTÉ’s Home Alone themed Late Late Toy Show broadcast to homes across Ireland and the wider world with average TV viewing for Friday night’s show now at over 1.6 million, including catch-up viewing on Saturday and Sunday and the repeat broadcast. |
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Four short animated films funded and selected for Ireland’s pavilion in Expo 2025 Osaka |
| 10 Dec 2024 | Screen Ireland, in partnership with Animation Ireland and the National Talent Academy for Animation, has announced the four successful recipients of the Osaka Expo 2025 Short Film Fund. |
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Golden Globes 2025: Andrew Scott and Colin Farrell nominated |
| 09 Dec 2024 | Irish actors Andrew Scott and Colin Farrell have both been nominated for the 82nd edition of the Golden Globes. |
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Irish documentary So This Is Christmas to make TV debut on RTE One this season |
| 09 Dec 2024 | Ken Wardrop’s heartfelt documentary So This Is Christmas will make its national TV debut this Christmas with the film set to broadcast on RTÉ One next Wednesday, December 18th at 9:35pm. |
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Paul Mescal takes the spotlight hosting Saturday Night Live for first time |
| 09 Dec 2024 | Paul Mescal was the latest Irish talent to appear as host of NBC's Saturday Night Live, hosting for the first time this weekend and following in the footsteps of previous Irish hosts including Colin Farrell, Saoirse Ronan and Pierce Brosnan. |
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DIFF 2025: Events with Pulitzer winner Justin Chang and Fiona Shaw among first highlights announced |
| 09 Dec 2024 | The first highlights have been revealed for this year’s Dublin International Film Festival (DIFF), which returns from February 20th to March 2nd, 2025. |
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Kneecap dominates 2024 BIFA Awards with seven wins including Best British Independent Film |
| 09 Dec 2024 | Irish language box office hit Kneecap has emerged as the big winner of this year’s British Independent Film Awards (BIFA), with the film earning seven awards including Best British Independent Film. |
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Tourism Ireland opens applications for 2025 International Programming Ireland Fund |
| 09 Dec 2024 | Tourism Ireland has announce that applications are open for its 2025 International Programming Ireland Fund. |
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Wednesday Season 2 wraps production in Ireland |
| 05 Dec 2024 | Netflix has confirmed that production has wrapped in Ireland on the highly anticipated second season of Wednesday, the largest international production to have ever taken place in the country. |
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TG4 reveals line-up of award-winning Irish-produced films airing this Christmas. |
| 05 Dec 2024 | Leading the list of home-grown productions scheduled to be broadcast on TG4 this Christmas is the Oscar-nominated film An Cailín Ciúin, which will make its TV premiere on Christmas day at 8pm on TG4. |
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Metropolitan and Cuba Pictures adapts Marian Keyes’ best-selling Walsh family novels for six-part RTÉ drama series |
| 04 Dec 2024 | RTÉ has confirmed the production of The Walsh Sisters, a new six-part drama series inspired by five of the novels from celebrated Irish author Marian Keyes. |
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Actor Éanna Hardwicke on his role in A Ghost Story for Christmas: Woman of Stone |
| 04 Dec 2024 | IFTA winning and BAFTA nominated actor Éanna Hardwicke will star in Mark Gatiss’ adaption of E. Nesbit’s chilling short story Man-Size in Marble for his seventh Ghost Story for Christmas for the BBC – debuting on Christmas Eve. |
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Griffith College and Film Ireland to host Screen Sessions: Looking Forward With Creativity |
| 04 Dec 2024 | Griffith College and Film Ireland have partnered with Screen Ireland to take a look at ‘who are the artists and decision makers behind the scenes’ with Screen Sessions: Looking Forward With Creativity. |
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ITV releases trailer for new drama Playing Nice starring Niamh Algar and James Norton |
| 04 Dec 2024 | The official trailer has been released for gripping new ITV psychological thriller, Playing Nice starring BAFTA nominated Irish actor Niamh Algar (Mary and George, The Virtues) alongside BAFTA nominee James Norton (Happy Valley), Olivier nominated James McArdle (The Mare of Easttown), and BIFA nominated Jessica Brown Findlay (Downton Abbey). |
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Pierce Brosnan, Helen Mirren, and Tom Hardy to lead new Guy Richie series for Paramount+, written by Ronan Bennett |
| 03 Dec 2024 | Pierce Brosnan has been cast in a leading role for Guy Richie’s upcoming crime series written by Northern Irish screenwriter and Top Boy creator, Ronan Bennett. |
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Four Mothers acquired by Break Out Pictures, BFI Distribution for April 2025 release |
| 03 Dec 2024 | Darren Thornton's Four Mothers has been acquired for distribution by Break Out Pictures in Ireland and BFI Distribution in the UK, following its win at London Film Festival. It will be released theatrically on 4th April 2025. |
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Siobhán Cullen cast in new BBC drama Babies alongside Paapa Essiedu, Jack Bannon, and Charlotte Riley |
| 03 Dec 2024 | Irish actress and IFTA Rising Star Siobhán Cullen has been announced to star in new drama Babies, written and directed by the award-winning Stefan Golaszewski (Mum, Marriage) for BBC iPlayer and BBC One. |
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