Irish film 'Sacred Deer' is big hit in Cannes

Revenge movie The Killing of a Sacred Deer has been a big hit with the critics at this year's Cannes Film Festival, and the Irish production from Element Pictures has already been tipped as a Palme d’Or contender.

Graphic novel 'Savage Town' set in Limerick

Previously unseen page from SAVAGE TOWN, out September 6th. An Irish crime graphic novel written by myself, drawn by @philip_barrett pic.twitter.com/ahyAskBdck

— Declan Shalvey (@declanshalvey) May 9, 2017

Savage Town is a forthcoming graphic novel set in Limerick at the turn of the millennium, and revolves around a gangland criminal called Jimmy "Hardy" Savage.

Crime times at Belfast Book Festival

There are numerous crime fiction related events at the Crescent Arts Centre in this year's Belfast Book Festival.

John Connolly on his latest Charlie Parker

Bestselling author John Connolly drops by Easons HQ to chat to Dave O'Callaghan about his fifteenth Charlie Parker crime novel, A Game of Ghosts.

'Cardboard Gangsters' trailer

Cardboard Gangsters, Mark O'Connor's gritty new Dublin drama starring and co-written with John Connors, is out in Irish cinemas on 16 June. It follows a group of wannabe "cardboard gangsters" trying to gain control of the drugs trade in Darndale.