Alastair Campbell opens with a compliment about an old mate. Kind of. 

Accenture is set to hire around 250 people into its workforce in Ireland by September this year.

Geoffrey Boycott believes an England comeback for Kevin Pietersen is a non-starter because captain Alastair Cook "can’t handle" him.

ON a sunny summer day, bestselling author Julia Donaldson is deservedly relaxing in her new garden.

Tune in to RTE One at 8pm tonight for the 59th annual Eurovision Song Contest live from the B&W Hallerne in Copenhagen.

Rod Stewart is still "voracious" in bed, his wife Penny has…boasted? Overshared? Sweetly confided?

Michael Clarke is hailing Australia’s Ashes victory as a special achievement to compare with their whitewash of England in 2006/07.

It was ludicrous how Alastair Campbell, Tony Blair’s spin doctor, was feted by the media and others when he arrived here to launch his new book, The Irish Diaries.

Rod Stewart secretly split from his wife Penny Lancaster for two weeks.

A pub landlord was given a surprise after his lingering cough was found to be an intolerance to beer.

Rod Stewart is "easy to please" at Christmas.

Lee McCulloch has urged Rangers players who have remained at the club so far not to head for the exit door.

Veteran newsreader and journalist Alastair Burnet, known to many for his years fronting News At Ten, has died at the age of 84.

Bébhinn Ramsay

Elevation to the Intercontinental Rally Challenge (IRC) series has raised the profile of the Donnelly Group Circuit of Ireland Rally.

THE Irish-backed agricultural-focused investment vehicle Fondomonte has been sold to a Saudi Arabian firm for about $83 million (€65.3m).

Families of July 7, 2005 bombing victims in the UK have been told they may have been targeted by phone hackers as MPs prepare to debate the scandal.

Sue Leonard finds there is more than a hint of autobiography in Douglas Kennedy’s tenth novel, which could possibly be his finest work.

Rod Stewart needs an afternoon nap to cope with becoming a father again.

THE family of a private detective found with an axe in his head received apologies from police and lawyers as three men were cleared of murder.

Veteran rocker Rod Stewart has become a father again after his wife, Penny Lancaster, gave birth to a boy.

A Moment Like Forever

Veteran rocker Rod Stewart said he slept with so many women he lost count but insisted he was not “a guy for one-night stands”.

Penny Lancaster was almost ready to give up on her dream of having another baby before she fell pregnant again.

ALTHOUGH Gareth MacHale (Ford Focus WRC) leads the Citroen Irish Tarmac Championship and is the best placed of four drivers to win the title, he is also the driver under most pressure ahead of this weekend’s final round, the Cork ‘20’ International Rally.

Penny Lancaster and Rod Stewart have announced that they are having another boy.

Rock legend Rod Stewart and his pregnant wife Penny Lancaster revealed they turned to IVF after a long battle to have another child.

Rod Stewart and his wife Penny Lancaster have quit their Los Angeles home.

ROD STEWART is to become a father again at the age of 66.

Penny Lancaster is pregnant.

RORY McILROY heads into this week’s defence of his Omega Dubai Desert Classic title by signing the biggest single deal of his short professional career.

Singer Rod Stewart said today he has the energy to try for an eighth child to keep his wife, Penny Lancaster, happy.

Rod Stewart and his wife Penny Lancaster are desperate to have a second child - but fear they have left it too late to conceive.

Geoff Ogilvy has backed Rory McIlroy to continue rising through the world rankings after his impressive professional debut in the United States.

Lee Westwood still hopes to have something to shout about before he has his tonsils out on Monday – a second European Order of Merit title.

Former supermarket boss Don Tidey told a court today of the "battleground'' that erupted around him when security forces rescued him from his kidnappers almost 25 years ago.

TONY BLAIR redrafted an IRA statement at the prime minister’s country residence Chequers in the presence of Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams in 2003, a senior aide to the former British prime minister has revealed.

AN IRISH-based public company is to become the leading provider of input products and farm consultancy services to arable and grassland farmers in Britain and Poland.

Rod Stewart loves his wife Penny Lancaster's womanly curves - because he isn't fond of super-skinny women.

IT’S the sort of behaviour that once landed a bank manager in Dublin Castle, but if a tribunal ever asks me, I can’t remember why or how I ended up in a Celtic Helicopter flying to the Galway Races.

England’s Rebecca Hudson fired a course record seven-under-par 65 to lead after the first round of the Spanish Open at Club de Campo Mediterraneo in Castellon.

Golden boy David Gillick capped off what Irish team manager Patsy McGonagle described as "a crazy day" by becoming the first man to retain the European Indoor 400 metres title since Britain's Du'aine Ladejo did so in 1996.

Rod Stewart has been forced to splash out on a private plane to look after his son while fiancee Penny Lancaster recovers from surgery.