IT'S been a massive month for women's football in the north with the Northern Ireland women's team making history by earning their first ever qualification for a major tournament.

:: How do you unwind at the weekend? As a performer, my weekend is different to other people’s and consists of Monday and Tuesday.

FROM learning American Sign Language, to mastering playing the drums, Riz Ahmed knew his role in Sound Of Metal would be a challenge.

A YOUNG woman in crumpled business attire is drunk and alone in a bar.

Straight Shooting and Hell Bent: Two films by John Ford FOR one of the most acclaimed directors in Hollywood history, John Ford's earliest years remain oddly under appreciated.

PAUL MCCARTNEY – MCCARTNEY III IMAGINED FEW artists have the raw pulling power to bring together the kind of celebrity cabal present on McCartney III Imagined.

PICASSO had his periods – Blue, Pink, African, Cubist.

Star Wars: Republic Commando (Multi) By: Aspyr IF ANY more evidence were needed that the latest Star Wars game is a blaster from the past, its credits roll to a song from Ash.

FILM OF THE WEEK SONGBIRD (Cert 15, 85 mins, STX International, Thriller/Sci-Fi/Romance/Action, available now on Amazon Prime Video, available from April 19 on BT TV Store/iTunes/Sky Store/TalkTalk TV Store and other download and streaming services) Starring: KJ Apa, Sofia Carson, Peter Stormare, Bradley Whitford, Demi Moore, Craig Robinson, Paul Walter Hauser.

PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN (15, 113 mins) Thriller/Romance.

THE RECKONING (15, 100 mins) Horror/Thriller/Romance.

The First Minister said she was not resiling from enacting a cultural package but her department’s key focus was on the health and economic recovery.

VIBRANT and visceral, Taiko drumming is the Japanese art form taking Derry by storm and being increasingly used as a “force for good” according to one of its most passionate advocates, Fiona Umetsu.

FICTION Every Vow You Break by Peter Swanson is published in hardback by Faber & Faber, priced £12.

AFTER garnering Academy Award nominations for its previous three feature films, Kilkenny animation studio Cartoon Saloon is in the running for Best Animated Feature Film once again at this month's Oscars.

THE IRA ordered that a senior member who later emerged as a suspected informer be shot for running a brothel with loyalists in the 1970s, a new book claims.

JUGGLING is something working parents have had to do even more during this past year as the restrictions of Covid-19 merged home and working lives.

THE Reverend Richard Coles is a former pop star, Strictly Come Dancing contestant, perennial game show guest and genial Radio 4 presenter.