Jonathon Redmond News Today

Despite increasing backlash and decreasing viewership, the Academy Awards remains the premier ceremony for films vying to have their name next to cinema’s greatest.

Labour City Councillor Niall Mc Nelis has extended congratulations to the cast and crew of The Banshees of Inisherin, An Cailin Ciuin and An Irish Goodbye for their Oscar nominations announced this week and said that the honours illustrate the need for the maintenance of funding in the sector.

IT’S true that, at Arsenal, when it rains it pours. Despite being reduced to 10-men for the third time in five matches, the Gunners clung on to draw 1-1 with high-flying Southampton and provide some much-needed respite for manager Mikel Arteta. “At the end, if you lose a game again it would’ve been really difficult to take,” said the Spaniard on the unthinkable prospect of falling to a fifth consecutive home defeat that would have spelt the club’s worst sequence in history.  But pros...