A young couple struggling with homelessness have managed to turn their lives around, thanks to housing activists, writes Joyce Fegan

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Gavin Rossdale is reportedly "suspicious" Gwen Stefani was cheating on him.

We really weren't expecting much from a long belated spin off to the Rockey series. But Creed is looking like it's got the guts to get in the ring with the best of the genre.

Creed is the seventh movie in the Rocky franchise, coming out almost 10 years since the last installment, Rocky Balboa.

Experts have poured scorn on an historian’s claim to have made the “literary discovery of the century” – uncovering the only portrait of William Shakespeare made in his lifetime.

A historian has claimed to have discovered the only portrait of William Shakespeare made in his lifetime.

Barefoot Apollo became the standard setter during an eventful second stage of the Irish Laurels on Saturday night at Curraheen Park.

You know that feeling when you’re so incredibly tired that you could sleep wherever you drop and nothing short of the apocalypse will wake you?

Margaret Atwood interrogates the myths around the idea of being a writer. Val Nolan is impressed by her conclusions.

Muhammad has become the most popular name for newborn boys in the UK.

All-Ireland football semi-final day. Home in front of the telly.

The Doors' founding member Ray Manzarek has passed away.

CAMELOT and Dabirsim were ranked the joint top two-year-olds of last season following the unveiling of the European Classifications in London this afternoon.

Greece has always looked at its classical age as a usable past but there is no solace in the classics to inspire the country out of its financial and economic woes. What Greece needs is a cultural revolution, writes Fouad Ajami

IT has been another good week, with four winners since last Sunday before racing last night but it might even have been better if a bit more luck had gone our way.

THE great Frankie Dettori produced a magical piece of riding to snatch the Darley Irish Oaks on Blue Bunting at the Curragh yesterday.

THE astronauts who first landed on the moon aren’t dwelling on their small lunar steps. Instead, two of them urged mankind to take a giant leap to Mars.

Curlin bids to overcome more than a century of history when he goes for gold in the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs tomorrow.

London's National Gallery's hotly anticipated Velazquez exhibition opens today, with a record number of advance ticket sales ensuring it will be a blockbuster.

SCHOOLCHILDREN cheered as the first total eclipse in years plunged Ghana into daytime darkness yesterday, a solar show sweeping northeast from Brazil to Mongolia.

WHILE the verdict means Michael Jackson will be free to try to rebuild his blighted musical career, his legal victory came at a terrible price to his image.

A white tiger escaped from a circus in New York and went on a half-mile stroll through the city.

A white tiger escaped from a circus in New York and went on a half-mile stroll through the city.

HOLYCOW Batman. Were you and Robin really gay?