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The nominations for the 2026 Oscars will, when they arrive at lunchtime on Thursday, certainly have an Irish presence. Photograph: Warner BrosWhatever the total, Sinners and One Battle After Another will surely be at the top of this year’s nomination table. Donald Clarke’s Academy Award nomination predictionsBest pictureOne Battle After AnotherSinnersHamnetMarty SupremeFrankensteinSentimental ValueThe Secret AgentIt Was Just an AccidentTrain DreamsBugoniaThe top six seem certain. Best directorOscars 2026: Leonardo DiCaprio in One Battle After Another, directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. Best castingOne Battle After AnotherSinnersMarty SupremeHamnetWeaponsThe fear was that this new category would simply reflect the voting for best picture.

After a closure that lasted 10 years, the Savoy in Cork is to be reborn as a live music venue and cultural space. Local promoters the Good Room are working in conjunction with building owners Clarendon Properties to relaunch the venue on Valentine’s Weekend. “We are delighted to get the Savoy open again,” said Joe Kelly, who will be running the venue with his fellow Good Room principals Ed O’Leary and Caoilian Sherlock. Kelly says the Good Room promoters will continue to run events at Live at St Luke’s. As a music venue, it has hosted concerts by a diverse range of major stars, from the likes of Count John McCormack and the Rolling Stones, to Damon Albarn and Run DMC.

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Photograph: Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesTánaiste Simon Harris has said he cannot see “any scenario” in which Ireland can participate in US president Donald Trump’s so-called Board of Peace “as currently constructed”. But as Social Democrats deputy leader Cian O’Callaghan called on the Government to “categorically rule out” joining the board, Mr Harris stressed the importance of “process”. Mr Trump is seeking $1 billion from countries for a permanent place on a board of peace aimed at resolving conflicts. A government could pay the billion dollars and still be kicked off, Mr Harris pointed out. Mr Harris said Minister for Foreign Affairs Helen McEntee received the Attorney General’s advice just before Christmas and has submitted further questions to the Government’s legal adviser.

Gardaí are investigating serious allegations of a sexual assault of a school girl in Dublin. A Garda spokesperson told the Irish Examiner: "All five persons arrested and detained were questioned in respect of the alleged offence and have been released without charge, pending a file to the DPP." The juveniles were interviewed by specialist garda child interviewers. It is understood an alleged attacker sent the young girl a video of the assault. An Garda Síochána continue to investigate.

Westmeath’s Luke Loughlin scores a superb two-pointer to win the O'Byrne Cup final against Kildare game in dramatic fashion. Winning is a good habit says LoughlinLuke Loughlin was keen to strike a note of perspective after his dramatic late two-pointer sealed O’Byrne Cup success for Westmeath against Kildare in Newbridge, insisting the victory, while welcome, was not one to get carried away with. “It’s good to get the win, I suppose, but we’re not getting too carried away,” said the Westmeath forward. “We hadn’t played particularly well in the first half, but with the amount of training we’ve done, there’s no quitting,” he said. “Winning is a habit, and it’s a good one to get into.

Celebrity chef Darina Allen has said free primary school meals should be sourced locally and made from scratch. Appearing before the Education and Youth Committee, she welcomed that there was a hot school meals programme and said it could have the same public health benefits as the smoking ban. She said the current school meal programme was “undermining children’s health” and that the meals provided were “generally lacking” in nutrition, and said ultra-processed foods “dominate many school meals”. Locally sourced produceMs Allen said that cooking meals from scratch using locally sourced produce would “align” with the Government’s policies on a circular economy and support local farmers and businesses. She also cited a model used in Japan where meals are cooked from scratch using locally sourced ingredients and every school must have an in-house nutritionist.

Today, it was announced that participants in the Suckler Carbon Efficiency Programme (SCEP) now have access to amend their 2026 yearly reference number. The window to amend the 2026 yearly reference numbers is open from today, January 22, until February 12, 2026. Alternatively, farmers can increase their 2026 yearly reference number by any number back up to their programme reference number set at the application stage, where the farmer or their FAS Advisor had amended their yearly reference number in 2023, 2024 or 2025. If a farmer knows or suspects that the minimum of 50% of cows to calve by June 30 won't be met, a requirement of the 2025 yearly reference number, they should take this opportunity to reduce their 2026 yearly reference number. Farmers who do not wish to amend their 2026 yearly reference number will have the previous year's reference number automatically roll over if no amendment is submitted.

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A free speech organisation has been hacked by a trans activist group that released its recent donor information. The Free Speech Union (FSU), founded by Lord Young of Acton, had commissioned a report on the activities of the activist group ‘Bash Back’, which then committed the cyber-attack in retaliation. ‘We will not be cowed’In a website post, Bash Back claimed: “The Free Speech Union is a membership-based organisation which purports to protect free speech. The free speech group now intends to sue for financial damages. Lord Young stated: “Bash Back is a dangerous anti-democratic organisation that boasts about breaking the law and encourages its supporters to steal hammers to carry out ‘direct action’, including against Members of Parliament.”“The members of this group need to be prosecuted.

Spain has been hit with its third recent train crash after a commuter service collided with a construction crane, leaving at least six people injured. The cause of the collision has not yet been determined, but it is believed the FEVE-operated train struck a crane while on its journey. It came ​after Sunday's ‍deadly high-speed ​train collision in the southern Andalusia region that killed at least 43 people and ‍another ‍train accident in northeastern Catalonia on Tuesday, in which the train driver died. The tail end of a train carrying some 300 passengers on the route from Malaga to the capital, Madrid, went off the rails at 7.45pm. An incoming train, which was travelling from Madrid to Huelva and carrying nearly 200 passengers, slammed into the derailed vehicle.

Her daughters, too, spent weeks in neonatal intensive care with a condition that affects their early development. Instead, I spent those hours of labour writing and researching for a career I would never get back. I wasn’t allowed to stay with Mabel, as there were no beds for mums on that floor of the hospital. Rebecca (pictured next to her daughter) said: 'Watching Mabel now, I don’t regret giving up my career for a second. When I meet men who already have children, I listen closely to how they talk about the mother of those children.

Liverpool head coach Arne Slot has stressed the importance of guaranteeing a top-eight Champions League finish after their 3-0 victory in Marseille made it all the more likely. “That could be the reason why we have run out of energy in some of the games when we’ve conceded. “It’s always very difficult to play Marseille because of their passionate fans and the quality of their players, but what makes it even harder is the quality of their manager. “But we were able to make it 2-0, 3-0 and so that makes the perception of the game completely different. “We lost possession too often in the middle because we misunderstood the game, we misjudged their pressing.

Met Éireann forecasts showery outbreaks for many areas of Ulster and Leinster throughout Thursday. Photograph: Brian Lawless/PA WireUnsettled conditions are set to continue this week with spells of rain expected to cover most of the country before temperatures potentially turn cooler next week, according to Met Éireann. Showery outbreaks are expected in many areas of Ulster and Leinster throughout Thursday, the forecaster said. In the Republic, Met Éireann said the best of any drier and brighter weather is expected farther west, though showers are expected in the southwest, becoming more isolated on Thursday evening. Showers will also develop in the southeast on Friday evening, Met Éireann said, while highs of 5 to 8 degrees are expected.