Keith Earls was crowned Munster Player of the Year yesterday but said he would gladly swap his prize for team silverware at the end of the season.

Ireland’s bid for Grand Slam glory is acting as a motivational tool for Billy Holland who leads Munster in Friday night’s rearranged Guinness PRO14 game against Edinburgh.

Keith Earls was one of the first Irish backs to be landed with the dubious honour of being ‘the next Brian O’Driscoll’, so his first emotion when Garry Ringrose was slapped with the same tag was one of avuncular concern.

Ringrose is expected to ease Ireland's midfield injury glut by starting Saturday's crucial clash with Scotland.

Keith Earls has been leaning on the talents of world-renowned mentalist and magician Keith Barry in an attempt to maximise his current run of fine form.

Billionaire businessman Richard Branson shared his insights into entrepreneurship, leadership, delegating and work-life balance in Dublin yesterday, writes Padraig Hoare from the Pendulum Summit.

Viewers will also meet some of Ireland’s young carers and chat about Ireland’s teenage mental health issues.

Music, comedy, drama and the annual Christmas panto will bring the Everyman Theatre’s 120th anniversary celebrations to a close, the venue’s autumn/winter programme launch has revealed.

Derval McGovern’s house features in Home of the Year on RTÉ One on Thursday at 8.30pm.

Mario Rosenstock premieres his new live show in Cork. Vicki Notaro joins him on the set of his TV show to see why he’s got his sights set on the south.    

Why go to Lapland when you can have a merry old time at Winterval, asks Tommy Barker

The biggest Christmas festival in the country kicked off last night when Santa switched on 100,000 festive lights in Waterford City.

Up to half a million visitors are expected in the south-east later this month when the country’s largest Christmas festival gets under way.

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Revenues at magician, Keith Barry’s events firm rocketed to €715,000 in 2013. Accounts filed by Mr Barry’s Druid Master Ltd show that the firm’s revenues rose 28% from €560,970 to €715,914 in the 12 months to the end of December 2013.

KEITH BARRY’S new hypnotic show, You’re Back in the Room, got massive ratings from when it premiered on TV3 in March. 

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In need of a break from the frantic pace of neon-lit shopping centres? Kelly O’Brien looks at the rising trend of traditional Christmas markets featuring festive fun and finger-licking food

There’s so much to do in the run up to Christmas, it can be hard to decide how to make the most of the festive fun. Take some tips from Ellie O’Byrne.

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Keith Barry is a big hit oversees but he brings magic to his home town at the weekend says Marjorie Brennan

A replica of the Book of Kells has been stolen in Meath, almost as mentalist Keith Barry predicted.

He also says the Book of Kells will be STOLEN!

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TV3 have bought the rights to make an Irish version of hit Channel 4 TV show 'Gogglebox', it was announced today.

Broadcaster Neil Prendeville has hit out at mentalist Keith Barry, accusing him of online bullying and urging him to apologise to radio station staff.

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Mentalist Keith Barry has slammed broadcaster Neil Prendeville who refused to interview him on his new show yesterday after learning he’d been scooped by his former radio station.

It was a good day for selling hats in Dublin yesterday — the Ray D’Arcy show broke its fifth world record for the most heads shaved simultaneously.

Having emerged over the weekend that the Garda watchdog’s phone and internet were compromised in a highly sophisticated hacking operation, I think we should bring in Keith Barry to brain hack the culprits.

The outgoing artistic director of Cork’s Everyman Palace picked his top three choices for this season as he launched the theatre’s Spring programme.

Keith Barry hacks your brain and Grey’s Anatomy returns.

A mix of laughter and magic swelled the coffers of two of Ireland’s best known entertainers last year.

In new movie Now You See Me, a cheating husband is exposed by a mentalist. It’s an ability suspicious wives would love to have, says Hilary Fennell.

The head of TV3 has called on the Government to end the “failed dual-funding mechanism” which allows RTÉ to earn revenue from both advertising and the TV licence fee.