David Hare tells Esther McCarthy about writing a film on the early career and defection of Rudolf Nureyev.

Dessie O’Hare has been remanded on bail pending a decision on whether he will be tried in the Special Criminal Court on charges of assault, violent disorder, and the false imprisonment of three people in Dublin.

Pat Flanagan has revealed that it was his wife who informed him that he had been axed as Offaly senior football team manager on Tuesday evening.

Cork actor Aidan O’Hare won’t be just rooting for his Jackie co-star on Sunday, says Esther McCarthy.

Former INLA man Dessie O’Hare is to fight extradition over his alleged role as the head of a gang accused of the “terrifying” imprisonment of a Dublin family, a court heard today.

Of course Colm O’Hare would prefer to be crossing the whitewash with Ballinacourty in Fraher Field this evening. Of course it would mean more to be donning the green and white hooped jersey than patrolling the sideline with manager Mattie Kiely.

Cork Ladies Football Team Crowned All-Ireland Champions. Video Eddie O’Hare

Teenagers who use seaweed to produce treats were last night named Youth Entrepreneurs of the Year in a competition organised and run by Foróige. The four teenagers from Co Donegal — Mary Kate Carr, Aimee Byrne, Rebecca McShane and Ronan O’Hare were honoured at a Mansion House, Dublin ceremony.

On the second day of the ‘Irish Examiner’ series looking at the placement of Irish children overseas, Noel Baker visits Ballydowd, the country’s top special care centre, and Kibble in Scotland. Supported by the Mary Raftery Fund

A newlywed couple in Pennsylvania killed a man whom the wife had lured to a rendezvous through an online dating advertisement, strangling him and stabbing him repeatedly, police said.

A look at John Lewis festive adverts over the last six years.

The man highlighted on The Sunday Game throwing his glasses off before entering a melee during Longford’s qualifier loss to Wexford has defended his actions.

Playwright David Hare tells Pádraic Killeen about his fascination with the ‘Irish socialist’ and his relevance to modern audiences

GO Home Hare, the property of the Mel Syndicate from Glin, Co. Limerick captured the Boylesports.com Derby at Clonmel yesterday when he defeated an injured Blueview Sam by a wide margin in the decider.

A black comedy, which is difficult to comprehend since it’s about the notorious 19th century grave robbers who provided Edinburgh’s medics with the bodies they required for further study.

Eurythmics singer Annie Lennox has pledged she will never wed again - because she doesn't understand the point of marriage.

IT is impossible for those of us not affected by the almost Burke and Hare-type deception carried out by so many hospitals, in collusion with pharmaceutical companies, to understand the anguish of those parents.

Over 170 years ago two Irishmen began a killing spree — and then sold the corpses. Michael Brennan reports.

BELFAST’S Brian Magee turned in a near faultless display to see off rugged South African Andre Thysse and retain his IBO super-middleweight title for the fourth time at the MEN Arena in Manchester.

Takaloo has labelled Jim Rock “a cartoon character” and insists that he will be rubbing out his challenge in spectacular fashion when they clash for the vacant WBU light-middleweight title in Belfast’s Odyssey Arena tonight.

Mystery surrounded the whereabouts of the family of the late Beatle George Harrison today, as Hare Krishna devotees backed away from earlier claims that they would spread his ashes in India’s holy Ganges River.

George Harrison has left the bulk of his almost £200m fortune to his wife and son.

Estimates that Harold Shipman may have murdered 297 patients during his 24-year career as a doctor make him one of the world's most prolific serial killers.