Here are all the latest headlines this lunchtime...

“Martin and I will have great fun!”

Celebrity photographer Jenny McCarthy talks with Rita de Brún about life, her love for Martin King, and some of the celebrity weddings she has photographed.

With so many demands on their time, how do Christmas dads keep going during the festive season? Esther McCarthy talks to four celebrities about juggling it all. 

John Divilly believes Lee Keegan should start at midfield in Saturday’s replay as he has the mobility to counteract likely Kerry starter Jack Barry.

Panti will also share in her vision for Ireland as we step in 2016, and “ponder on what challenges or possibilities lie ahead”.

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It’s been a crazy 18 months for broadcaster Lucy Kennedy since she swapped RTÉ for TV3. She talks to Laoise Neylon about weight-loss and being bumped up to prime-time for The Seven O’Clock Show

Colm Cooper has given plenty of defenders sleepless nights before championship matches in Croke Park but the Kerry star had his own difficulties getting rest ahead of the big days.

TV3 have axed day-time show Late Lunch Live – in favour of an evening chat show.

THE season of goodwill is almost upon us but while festive cheer is all around us, it can be a stressful time for those left toiling over a hot stove. 

Check out our spoiler-free guide to the best of tonight's TV.

Banking union IBOA has said despite the positive stress tests results for most of the country’s pillar banks, there is still a need for better corporate governance in the major financial institutions.

As the great and the good in Irish film and television gather together to be honoured at this year’s IFTAs tonight, Rachel Borrill asks some of our best-known faces for advice and tips on how to break into the business.

Dazzling daffodils held their pretty heads high in all sorts of new places for Ireland’s longest-running fundraising day. Being the month of many weathers, and after being washed out last year, the Irish Cancer Society was taking no chances.

A man who dedicated his life to raising his young family after his wife died from ovarian cancer three years ago was named father of the year yesterday.

Dull was not the adjective to best describe the colour scheme of the debut offering of TV3’s afternoon show, Late Lunch Live.

"Go shorty, it's your birthday" "Hip hop hippy the hippy, the hippy to the hip hip hop you don't stop" and more.

TV and radio presenter, Lucy Kennedy, 37, can’t wait to start work with her “new husband” on TV3 next month.

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.

Dáithí Ó Sé has insisted his mid-afternoon Today programme on RTÉ has nothing to fear from fresh competition at TV3.

Hang on - you mean that weather presenters are real people too?

Two complaints against RTÉ’s Liveline have been upheld by broadcasting watchdog the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI) after it found a Catholic priest had been harassed following a magazine article linking the Taoiseach with King Herod.

IT’S one of the oldest kickstarters of a dull dinner party: ‘What’s your favourite film, and why?’

One of the most sage pieces of advice offered to RTÉ head of sport Ryle Nugent was that if he survived the first 10 years without people liking or disliking his rugby commentary, he might just make it. On the eve of his 15th season behind the mic, he evidently succeeded.

I’ve been on radio since I was fifteen and realised that I was not going to make it as a professional footballer.

Staff at AIB who choose to be among the 2,500 voluntary departures are likely to be offered a redundancy package of four weeks’ pay per year of service, inclusive of statutory.

A mediator has recommended that the proposed 950 redundancies at Ulster Bank be voluntary and that departing staff be given four weeks’ pay per year of service inclusive of statutory.

Workers at ESB have voted in favour of €140m in payroll savings which will see average workers taking a 20% cut in their earnings and 1,000 leaving the company.

UNCLE Vincent is berating everyone from the couch, the kids are obsessing over X Factor, granddad Bill is explaining how they should be lucky to get a penny apple, and almost every show on TV seems to be a re-run or a Christmas special.

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IRISH people’s obsession with the weather, and what ‘it’s going to do’, is not unique.

A man has died after being stabbed by a bird.

TOPFLIGHT have announced sponsorship of a Ski Weather Forecast which will be presented by Martin King live on TV3 each Wednesday and Thursday at 7.58pm until the end of the ski season in March.

Hollywood star Denzel Washington has emerged as the surprise favourite to be Ryan Tubridy's first guest as he begins his tenure as 'Late Late Show' host.

ANGELINA JOLIE, Meryl Streep and Emma Thompson could all be celebrating St Valentine’s Day in Dublin tonight.

HANDS up everyone who is looking forward to Pat Kenny hosting another Late Late Show this autumn.

BUBBLY Kathryn Thomas is the nation’s favourite woman presenter.

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Tourist chiefs in Liverpool today defended the omission of the world-famous Cavern Club from a tourist map.

AS usual, James Lawton, columnist with the London Independent, didn’t mince his words.