BEGORRAH and bejaysus, we’ve had a rough auld time of it in Hollywood over the years.

Manu Tuilagi red card however overshadows England’s Six Nations win over Wales.

Three people have been fatally shot at a Walmart in the US state of Oklahoma, according to the Highway Patrol.

The best pair of teams at the World Cup met in the first semi-final last Saturday. The number one priority for Eddie Jones and England is getting to that pitch again for tomorrow’s final.

Eddie Jones has issued a ‘do-or-die’ call to arms ahead of England’s World Cup battle against Australia.

It was written by Irish American director John Ford ahead of the filming of the Quiet Man in Ireland.

Plans are advanced in Glengarriff to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the birth of the late, legendary Hollywood actress Maureen O’Hara.

Friends Buckley and Rochford must pit their wits against each other, writes Christy O’Connor.

Kendall Jenner's alleged stalker John Ford has reportedly gone off the radar, with officials fearing he may try to return to Los Angeles where Kendall lives.

The election results are almost all in and political anoraks have been digesting the information gleaned from the ballot boxes like famished goats.

Peter Jackson gets over the gain line, behind the headline

Edinburgh remain in the running for a Guinness PRO14 play-off spot after posting a comfortable 28-11 win over defending champions Leinster at BT Murrayfield.

Edinburgh gave themselves a confidence boost ahead of their crucial European Cup quarter-final match against Munster next Saturday at BT Murrayfield with a forward orientated bonus point win over Leinster last night.

It was a performance riddled with mistakes, so many of them elementary, but the side's reaction to adversity in the second-half, when coming from 13-0 down to claim the lead and hold out in the face of considerable pressure, was impressive.

A grieving father whose wife has been charged with their toddler twins' murder, has said support from strangers is helping him through the death of his twin children.

Leicester kept their slim Heineken Champions Cup hopes alive by securing a four-try bonus point in a thrilling 36-26 defeat to Racing 92 in Paris.

Skipper Rory Best hailed Ulster’s second-half display as they dug in for a vital 24-10 win over Leicester Tigers to kick-start their Heineken Champions Cup campaign.

Why would any woman support a power structure built on misogyny and led by a man whose contempt for women is part of his appeal to men? asks Suzanne Harrington

The repercussions from the explosive testimonies at the Senate judiciary committee last week will be felt in the US for years to come, according to Helen Coster

Despite the #MeToo movement, Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court nomination is likely to be confirmed after a desultory and incomplete investigation, writes Scott Lemieux

Ireland host Pakistan in their first ever five-day match in a contest at Malahide that begins on May 11.

Ronan O’Gara says this Ireland team should want to complete the Grand Slam, then go to Australia in the summer and win a Test series down there.

The Joe Schmidt era just gets better and better. So many boxes ticked as the clock ticks towards the 2019 World Cup.

Jonny May insists England “owe the country” when they face Ireland having ceded the NatWest 6 Nations title to their rivals.

Graham Ford and his Ireland squad had long left these shores for warmer climes by the time the current chill descended, but the cold and wet of an already bleak Irish winter had long since reached his bones over the opening weeks of the New Year.

He felt stung by the politics that helped define his life - but in death, the Rev Billy Graham received a rare tribute from America's top political leaders under the Capitol Rotunda in Washington DC.

Eddie Jones insists the vision of Owen Farrell and George Ford acts as the catalyst for England’s “collective talent” to flourish.

England’s quest for an unprecedented hat-trick of Six Nations titles was launched by a 46-15 victory over Italy that produced a late flurry of tries.

New Ireland coach Graham Ford will rely on experience when the team bids to land a place in what would be a fourth straight Cricket World Cup, this time via the ICC qualifiers in Zimbabwe in March.

Leicester Tigers 16 Munster 25: Munster planted one boot firmly in the Champions Cup quarter-finals as they grabbed an invaluable away win at Welford Road last night and gave new boss Johann van Graan a benchmark performance for the rest of the season.

A member of An Garda Síochána yesterday successfully appealed a conviction on a charge of assault causing harm to his ex-girlfriend.

Leinster are the team to beat, the No. 1 in Europe’s power rankings. And Munster are No. 2, writes Ronan O’Gara.

The big guns are back for Munster’s Champions Cup showdown with Leicester Tigers at Thomond Park tonight (7.45pm) and what a noise there has been around them these past few days.

Peter O’Mahony has urged Munster supporters to forget last year’s 38-0 European drubbing of Leicester at Thomond Park and brace for impact when the Tigers return to Limerick on Saturday.

Actor Harrison Ford rushed to the scene of a car accident over the weekend.

England made a scruffy start to their autumn series but still ensured they will enter their group showdown against Argentina at the 2019 Wold Cup with an immaculate record against the Pumas under Eddie Jones.

Leicester romped to a seven-try European Champions Cup victory as they ran Castres ragged at Welford Road.

Ryan Gosling and Harrison Ford might seem an unlikely double act for a Blade Runner sequel but Laura Harding found the duo in fine form when she met them.

Hundreds of people have attended a rally in solidarity with probation officers threatened by dissident republicans.

A teacher told pupils to shun a 13-year-old boy due to his father being a Tory MP, the Commons has heard.

Were you at the show?

The West Cork Vintage Ploughing and Threshing Association’s Ford 100 Fest will take place on the ancestral home-farm of Henry Ford at Crohane, Ballinascarthy, Co. Cork on Sunday August 27. 

Available now Richard Ford, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Independence Day, explores non-fiction for the first time with a biography of his parents.

As he gets ready for the Fastnet Film Festival, director Stephen Frears tells Esther McCarthy about his work on such movies such as Philomena and The Snapper, as well as his new-found love for West Cork

The Ford Motor Company wouldn’t be where it is today without the hard work of Cork employees, the firm’s executive chairman told its pensioners in City Hall.

On his recent visit to Cork to mark the centenary of Ford in Ireland, Henry’s great-grandson outlined his dreams and visions.

Donncha Ó Dúlaing, widely known for his hugely popular radio shows Three-O-One, Highways and Byways and Fáilte Isteach, remembers his time in the accounts department at Henry Ford & Son.

When Ford was described by UCC President Professor Patrick G. O’Shea as “a Cork company with an American subsidiary”, it was a remark that perfectly captured the light-hearted mood during the visit of William Clay Ford Jr.