The Favourite is already being talked up for Oscars. Its director tells Esther McCarthy all about the Irish-produced period film.

A mother of two says she suffered burns to her face after a blow torch used to light a dessert sent flames across a counter at a Disneyland Paris restaurant.

Bless.

Abigail Lawless always had a curious mind and it is a thirst for fascinating facts her doting father is always eager to feed. 

SET in an ‘alternate’ present, in a US very much in thrall to the People’s Republic of China so that the latter has a say in the national affairs of the former, with military bases all over the country, The 3re Woman is Guardian journalist Jonathan Freedland’s first work of fiction under his own name.

The family of a five-year-old girl, who has been left with a permanent scar on her forehead after an elasticated type bandage was left on her head for 30 hours after her birth at Cork University Maternity Hospital, has settled her case for €240,000.

A five-year-old girl has been left with a permanent scar on her forehead after an elasticated-type bandage was left on her head for 30 hours after her birth at Cork University Maternity Hospital, the High Court heard yesterday.

Stargazer Lottie may not have Barbie’s big advertising budget —but as the first doll in space she’s getting the kind of publicity that money cannot buy.

Kya deLongchamps reviews a range of publications that would make ideal gifts for those with an interest in interiors, food and other home-related topics.

Teenager Clayton Williams has accepted his driving caused the death of Pc Dave Phillips and has “extended his apologies” to the father-of-two’s family, a statement from his solicitor said.

It ended as it began — with a goat, a crown, and a legendary fanfare.

There was a time, and a much simpler time it was too, when a superhero had what it took to save the world all on his own. 

A 5-year-old girl who, it is claimed, suffered an injury in a road traffic incident while in her mother’s womb has settled her High Court action for €100,000.

Just because someone is non-religious doesn't mean they don't want a sense of occasion to surround the many milestones of their life. Kelly O'Brien talks to two couples who tied the knot in humanist wedding ceremonies.

Abigail Breslin has denied she was referring to Taylor Swift when she changed lyrics in a song by the star to "unstable cat lady".

Though the boy band member is not named throughout the song, her lyrics give some clues.

THE Old Vic’s version of The Crucible, due to be sccreened soon in Irish cinemas, grabs you by the throat. Arthur Miller’s timeless classic was inspired by Senator Joseph McCarthy’s hunt for communists in 1950s America but is set amidst the hysteria of the 1692 Salem witch trials in New England.

As one Irish mum recently told the nation why she gave up her job to take her kids out of childcare, Áilín Quinlan speaks to other stay-at-home parents about their experience.

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1. Abigail Ahern Sharing trade secrets, decorating differently and yabbering are just some of the tabs worth a click on interior designer Abigail Ahern’s Wordpress site.

PICTURE this. The changing rooms in a health club. Two ladies in expensive tennis gear, lightly sweating, zipping their racquets away. One is saying to the other: “I’m incandescent. He made an appointment with the builder to come at nine on Monday to redo the conservatory. He KNOWS I play tennis on Monday.”

A four-year-old girl was left for at least 12 hours in a house with the bodies of her mother and sister after her “jealous and controlling” father killed them in an “appalling” axe and knife attack, a British court has heard.

A young mother has made an emotional appeal to the health minster to intervene to help her little girl walk.

1. Abigail Ahern.

The letter landed through the front door last Friday — and it wasn’t good news.

Mum’s MS is accepted by her children, says Helen O’Callaghan.

It’s a wrench when your child starts school, the flip of what you felt as an infant. It’s a beginning and an ending, says Sue Leonard

Set in 1692, The Crucible, Arthur Miller’s allegorical drama of witch hunts and hysteria, is still relevant today, says Colette Sheridan.

A 10-YEAR-OLD Clonmel girl whose mother has multiple sclerosis has pledged to read 20 books raising an estimated €10,000 during a nationwide “readathon” fundraiser for the disease.

A QUICK-THINKING Cork baker put the icing on the cake for a Kildare couple after their friends managed to accidentally ruin it just hours before the wedding.

Lily Cole has landed a role in 'Doctor Who'.

The 16-year-old sailor who spent three days adrift in the Indian Ocean described her ordeal as “crazy” today as she started the long journey home after being rescued.

Taylor Swift doesn’t have many friends, and doesn't feel attractive to boys either.

ASTRONAUT Randolph Bresnik became a father while after launching into space and taking a spacewalk.