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Decades before he became an Oscar winner for his performance in ‘Oppenheimer’, the Irish actor was one of a group of ‘goofy teenagers’ trying to make it as rock stars. Ed Power speaks to friends and peers who knew the star when he was trying to get his band – named Sons of Mr Green Genes – off the ground

Upper Elphin Street, Strokestown, Roscommon and Sligo Town Saturday, 9th March peacefully in the care of all the staff at Sonas Nursing Home, Cloverhill.

Ballyglass, Dysart, Ballinasloe, Roscommon Saturday, 9th March suddenly, but peacefully in the loving care of the staff of St. Joseph's Ward, Portiuncula Hospit...

Totally PLC on Monday said it has won a GBP700,000 contract with the Saolta University Health Care Group. Shares in the Derby, England-based healthcare services provider were down 5.5% to 5.20 pence...

Culture and Arts Minister Catherine Martin also congratulated the cast and crew of Poor Things, co-produced by Dublin-based Element Pictures

Cillian Murphy has won the Oscar for best actor for his performance in Oppenheimer while Emma Stone won best actress for her role in the Irish-produced Poor Things.

It would be absolutely amazing and so cool if he came to the school. That would be a great honour. I think he really deserved the Oscar and we would love for him to have a cup of tea with us

Irish trainers, led by the formidable Willie Mullins, expected to dominate four frantic days of Cheltenham Festival action

Principal Sean Lyons said the boys were giddy with happiness coming through the doors of the school this morning.

There was a whiff of Hollywood glamour in the air on Monday at St. Anthony's, a primary school in the Irish city of Cork that counts Oscar-winner Cillian Murphy as a past pupil."When we woke up this morning there was such a buzz of excitement," Sean Lyons, principal of the all-boys Catholic school, told AFP.  The 47-year-old Murphy was a pupil at St. Anthony's, in the tidy Cork neighbourhood of Ballinlough, between 1982 and 1988.