David Walliams will also recive the ‘Bord Gáis Energy International Recognition Award on the night.

It’s 2009, summer, and Ireland stands on the brink of catastrophic recession, or, as the very unreliable narrator of Ithaca puts it: it was ‘the summer after all the money disappeared’. 

On the day Alexandra Heminsley and her husband returned from their honeymoon, they got into the sea near their Brighton home. 

USA: Referring to “this ridiculously stupid winter”, the Ithaca website suggests visiting the Florida Keys this week and returning “when things thaw out.”

Robert C Richardson, a Cornell University professor who shared a Nobel Prize for a key discovery in experimental physics, has died at the age of 75.

A 24-year-old Limerick man is today beginning a life sentence in prison after he was found guilty of the murder of father-of-three Gareth Brosnan-Grant.

The trial of a Limerick man accused of murder has heard evidence that a bullet recovered from the victim’s chest was fired from the weapon which was recovered from the home of the accused’s grandparents.

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

Thousands of blackbirds plummeted to their deaths in front of horrified New Year revellers in a small Arkansas town.

IN the very first poem of his beautiful new book, Theo Dorgan declares his loyalty and his aesthetic impulse:

ON some mornings last week the slight chill in the air and the golden sunlight would make one believe autumn, “season of mists and mellow fruitfulness”, had already arrived.

Brad Pitt is set to star in a new adaptation of Greek poet Homer's famous masterpiece 'The Odyssey' - set in outer space.

Brad Pitt is set to star in a new adaptation of Greek poet Homer's famous masterpiece 'The Odyssey' - set in outer space.

VICTORIA Beckham is spicing up her life with musk rather than music these days.

MAX JONES, Ireland’s new Director of Athletics and the man entrusted with the task of breathing new life into the sport, will soon travel around the country to meet the coaches and volunteers.

THE International Equestrian Federation hierarchy will meet next week to discuss the fall-out from the Waterford Crystal affair, as the internal investigation at their Lausanne headquarters continues.

THE director of the British laboratory from where the Waterford Crystal B urine sample was stolen said the package was handed to someone without official identification.

THE Equestrian Federation of Ireland confirmed last night that a case file stolen from its offices related to Cian O’Connor’s horse ABC Landliebe, but not Waterford Crystal.

Brazilian soccer star Ronaldo won’t have to worry about his job just yet.