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The Sky Road TV & Film Festival has announced details of its inaugural programme, which includes an exciting selection of Irish television and filmmaking talent across features, shorts, documentaries, and new media in English and Irish languages.

RUN & JUMP and Coming Home were the main winners at the Galway Film Fleadh Awards 2013 which took place in the Town Hall Theatre on Sunday.

Two separate reviews of the legislation incentivising investment in film and TV production in Ireland are to take place, that is according to Galway West TD Seán Kyne who was informed of the decision in reply to a parliamentary question.

Commitments by the Minister for Arts Jimmy Deenihan, that he has no plans to abolish the Irish Film Board, have been welcomed by a local councillor.

A hard-hitting documentary from north Mayo has beaten off strong competition to take the overall major prize at Circom, the network of regional European broadcasters.

WHAT HAPPENS when society suddenly collapses and neighbour turns against neighbour during a desperate fight for survival?

In the largest campaign of its kind, the National Campaign for the Arts was marked in Kilkenny along with several other locations around the country last Friday.

Today Friday September 17, is National Day of Action for Arts and Culture and arts organisations in Kilkenny city and county will be taking part in a bid to highlight the importance of the arts to the local economy.

Filmed, a new initiative of Roscommon Arts Centre, presents an eclectic mix of films selected specifically for secondary school students (senior cycle and transition year). In conjunction with the Irish Film Institute, the Arts Centre is offering this exciting and educational six-week film programme throughout November and December. Introducing Irish-made films, foreign language films, historical documentaries, and a presentation by the award-winning Irish animation studio Cartoon Saloon, many of the selected films are accompanied by study guides.

US presidential election victor Barack Obama is the ‘real deal’, according to Green Minister Eamon Ryan, who visited Kilkenny this week.