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Kilkenny’s animation studio, The Cartoon Saloon, has been nominated for an Oscar and an Annie this year for its animation movie The Secret of Kells .

Yes, we’re back. A couple of people thought the Kilkenny Advertiser had gone to the great newspaper graveyard in the sky when there was no edition last week, but no, just like most of the rest of the country it was just a little break for the Christmas holiday.

After a hugely successful run last year, Roscommon Drama Festival once again presents a packed nine night programme of theatre from Friday March 6 to Saturday March 14. Opening night welcomes back last year’s winners Cornmill Theatre Company to the stage with Kevin’s Bed by Bernard Farrell. Both funny and bittersweet, this play plays out the events surrounding a 50th wedding anniversary – all is laid bare and truths are told, for better or worse.

The national premiere of The Secret of Kells was more important than the Oscars to Irish actor Brendan Gleeson who attended the film premiere in Dublin on Oscar night.

THE WEST of Ireland is about to become a busy place for filmmaking over the coming months so now is a good time to enrol in a Galway Film Centre course.

Galway boys aged from nine to 11 are being sought for a role in the upcoming film version of Ken Bruen’s novel The Guards and auditions take place this weekend.

SLIGO’S BLUE Raincoat Theatre Company come to the Town Hall from February 4 to 6 with A new staging of Flann O’Brien’s ebullient comic classic, At Swim Two Birds.