In honour of Father’s Day Annmarie O’Connor presents her menswear style edit, plus she showcases the celebs who wear it well, from their twenties to their fifties, and beyond.

An encounter between French filmmaker Francois Trauffaut and Alfred Hitchcock in 1955 helped persuade the English speaking world of his genius. Gerry McCarthy savours a reissue of the book that followed.

In 1995, the then British Prime Minister John Major spectacularly put his five-year tenure of Downing Street on the line by resigning his leadership of the Conservative Party.

Walls are trending this year, but you don’t have to build one, just decorate what you have, writes Carol O’Callaghan.

After being subjected to some terrible treatment from Alfred Hitchcock, actress Tippi Hedren is much happier looking after her tigers and other big cats, writes Lorraine Wylie

Just like the protagonist of his latest film, Pedro Almodovar admits that the weight of years gone by have had an effect on him, writes Helen Barlow

US: The Yellow Cloud electric guitar that Prince played in numerous concerts has been sold for more than £100,000 at an auction in the US.

Des O’Driscoll looks at some of the things going on around the country.

The Ryan family get their health assessed in Doctor in the House on TV3 on Wednesday at 9pm.

Did we mention it was random?

Tributes to screen legend Maureen O’Hara, who died at the age of 95, were led by President Micheal D Higgins.

MUSIC NEWS: Apple Music, the new streaming music service gets a boost today with the release of Dr Dre’s Compton: A Soundtrack exclusively on that facility and the almost traditional format, iTunes. 

Peter Ackroyd is one of the most productive and elegant biographers writing in English today but is often accused of not uncovering anything new about his subjects. That doesn’t matter, he tells Tony Clayton-Lea

Rita de Brun was a widow before 40, so she is sceptical of research that says we are happiest at any particular time. It’s different for everyone. Some people thrive later, into their 60s and 70s. We asked three celebrities in their prime if they were less or more content now.

The actor best known for his role as James Bond villain Kamal Khan in 1983's 'Octopussy'.

ENGLAND: A species of magic mushroom has been discovered growing in the grounds of Buckingham Palace.

Evolution may have planted some common human fears while others are passed on, wittingly and unwittingly, by our parents says Rita de Brun

The political landscape may have been dominated by six years of economic turmoil, fresh revelations from a garda whistleblower and yet another crisis in health, but that doesn’t mean the important issues are being ignored.

I WAS sitting on the terrace of a hotel enjoying some autumn sunshine when a bird walked over my foot. It was a bit startling. A family of pied wagtails were busily working the terrace searching for whatever it is pied wagtails regard as food.

With the release this week of Philip Seymour Hoffman’s last film ‘A Most Wanted Man’, Declan Burke takes a look at the most influential spy films ever made

Moby has signed up to appear in new movie 'Intruder'.

Demi Moore will replace Sarah Jessica Parker in 'Wild Oats'.

An amplifier which travelled the world with late blues guitar legend Rory Gallagher has helped raise €7,000 for the lifeboat station in a fishing village whose cliffs he loved to walk during breaks from touring.

They may appear like they’ve had the Fr Ted treatment, but some of these vintage movie posters are testament to the social censorship of 1950s and 1960s Ireland.

The allure of superstar Nicole Kidman was not enough to salvage "Grace of Monaco" from the scathing wrath of critics as the movie opened the Cannes Film Festival.

Paul Merton holidayed in Ireland as a child. He visits again this week to perform his improv show at Vicar Street, says Richard Fitzpatrick.

Oscar-winner Dame Helen Mirren is to be honoured by Bafta with its highest award.

Before her trial has even concluded, the woman accused of stalking actor Alec Baldwin has been sentenced to 30 days in jail after a series of courtroom outbursts led to her being declared in contempt of court.

The Ministry of Defence in Northern Ireland has signed a major new charter designed to support victims of domestic violence.

ROYALTY has set trends and led fashionable society for millennia.

An affiliate of Lloyds of London is offering €1m reward for information leading to a diamond collection stolen at gunpoint from a jewel show in Cannes.

A massive €102.5m in jewellery has been stolen from an exhibition at one of the French Riviera’s top hotels.

The massive €40m jewellery theft in Cannes happened at a hotel that featured prominently in Alfred Hitchcock’s “To Catch a Thief,” which starred Cary Grant as a reformed burglar chasing a jewel thief.

POWER is at its most potent when it is implied. Revealed it loses its mystique. What inspires awe at a distance, provokes resentment not understanding in the actual encounter. So it proved in Seanad Éireann. Largely ignored for decades, some senators forgot that the cameras and microphones fixed to the furnishings in the Duke of Leinster’s former ballroom allow others to look in as well as them shout out.

He may have been one of cinema’s greatest directors, but Orson Welles’ opinions show how little he thought of some of the biggest stars from the other side of the camera.

Horror writer Stephen King has written 49 books and sold 350m copies since his debut, Carrie, 40 years ago. Now the cult classic is being remade. King’s name is a byword for sinister, says John Daly.

Danny Boyle’s impressive Olympic opening ceremony and the spoof sitcom inspired by the Games are both in the running for TV Bafta Awards.

“A nice, clean, nasty piece of work — that’s what I’m looking for,” declares our eponymous anti-hero at the beginning of Hitchcock (12A).

In a career spanning more than 50 years, film-maker Alfred Hitchcock redefined the cinematic landscape with his diabolical and twisted thrillers.

IT would have been eccentric 10 years ago, but we are considering giving up our landline telephone.

Four of the Academy Awards nominees top 150 minutes each. I saw them in one go, says John Daly

Scarlett Johansson worried about her shower scene in 'Hitchcock'.

OSCAR-winning actress and sex-symbol, Helen Mirren, 67, raised a few eyebrows this month when she suggested that sex does not make a marriage last.