Kevin Barry, Jamie Heaslip, Donal Skehan and Andrea Corr are just some of the people shortlisted for the An Post Irish Book Awards

We take a trip down memory lane and check out what happened on this day in years gone by by looking back at some Irish Examiner front pages and highlighting other events which went down in history across the world.

From Estée Lauder’s Breast Cancer Awareness range to makeup giant e.l.f.making its debut in Ireland, it’s a busy month for beauty launches, writes Rachel Marie Walsh

The Corrs have started to enjoy the fruits of their 2015 comeback with the cashpile at their music firm climbing to over €310,000.

The village of Ballingarry, Co Limerick played host to the society wedding of the year at the weekend when famous footballers and TV stars descended to watch Dermot Desmond’s son tie the knot with fashion designer Stephanie Smart.

It was the final playlist of the man know affectionately to his friends as The Dude.

ACTRESS Lake Bell is on a mission to eradicate a pandemic ‘disease’: ‘sexy-baby’ voice.

He was unheard of before being kicked by Chelsea midfielder Eden Hazard last night, but now Charlie Morgan has more Twitter followers than the club he supports.

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SINGER Andrea Corr has told how she has always felt uncomfortable with her fame and her tag as one of the most beautiful women in the world.

IT’S A dark and moonless night on the west coast.

A new campaign is being launched today for the protection of human rights defenders who are at risk.

A six-year-old schoolgirl broke through heavy security around Tiger Woods today to get her hero’s autograph during one of his rare public outings.

MEDICAL staff need to be trained in handling patients deliberately simulating illnesses, according to researchers, following a study of patients with Munchausen Syndrome presenting in hospitals.

Broadcaster Terry Wogan has been voted the coolest Irish celebrity in a poll of the British public to mark St Patrick’s Day.

Lead singer with The Corrs, Andrea, is celebrating her first day as a married woman after her wedding yesterday to stockbroker Brett Desmond.

RECESSION blues were put on ice as old Celtic Tiger champagne times sparkled in west Clare for the wedding of singer Andrea Corr and Brett Desmond.

UP to 300 locals and onlookers gathered outside the Co Clare church to see the country’s biggest celebrity wedding this summer.

DESPITE lengthy and torrential downpour just hours earlier, Andrea Corr and Brett Desmond were blessed with blue skies and glorious sunshine for their wedding in Miltown Malbay, Co Clare.

A Clare village was transformed into a celebrity-watchers’ paradise today for the country’s society wedding of the year.

Golfers forking out around €50,000 to join an exclusive resort in the west of Ireland are being told to keep off the grass on the day it hosts a lavish celebrity wedding.

Singer Andrea Corr is to make her London stage debut at the Old Vic, it was announced today.

ALMOST a quarter of people would be worried about eating a meal prepared by someone with HIV.

Neil Jordan’s Breakfast on Pluto has topped the list of nominees for this year’s Irish Film and Television Awards.

HOLLYWOOD celebrities Penelope Cruz and Kate Winslet head the nominations for the glitzy Irish Film and Television Awards.

UP TO 600,000 calls will be made from Irish landlines to Britain today, according to TalkTalk, the landline company from The Carphone Warehouse.

It’s the middle l960s and two brothers, decidedly not on speaking terms, come reluctantly together to compete in a music final.

STRAPPY gowns and forceful frowns were the special ingredients that went into making it the biggest night of the year on the Irish social calendar.

Ireland’s answer to the Oscars will be staged in Dublin tonight, with a host of Hollywood and home grown talent in attendance.

Hollywood starlet Mischa Barton will ensure there is a touch of California style at this weekend’s Irish Film & Television Awards.

Singer and actress Andrea Corr launches the 18th Foyle Film Festival this week, and will be in Derry for the opening-night screening on November 11 of The Bridge, in which she stars.

ROCK band U2 interrupted their 2005 world tour yesterday to attend the funeral of a family friend in Dublin.

A young Irish director will get the chance of a lifetime to have a short film screened at an international movie festival if it scoops the top prize in a competition in Belfast next month.

Andrea Corr, lead singer in The Corrs, has won the Best Actress Award at the Colorado Film Festival for her role in The Boys from County Clare.

Andrea Corr had to undergo training to perfect her native Irish accent for her role in new movie 'The boys from County Clare'.

The Corrs are heading out on their UK tour without sister Caroline Corr, who has just given birth to her second child.

RUBY Tuesday it certainly was.

Singer Andrea Corr is calling on more Irish celebrities to promote causes for deprived children.

FANS of chart stars The Corrs have tried to fiddle an internet poll to find the world’s sexiest woman.

Racing star Eddie Irvine was among the celebrities who gathered in Dublin tonight for a star-studded fashion show to raise money for children’s charities.

Supermodels and celebrities were gathering in Dublin today for a star-studded fashion show to raise money for three children’s charities.

Bono has co-written a new song for Andrea Corr.

Andrea Corr is to play her first leading film role in The Great Ceili War, a musical comedy.

SINGING sensation Andrea Corr is encouraging thousands of people to “fast-en” their belts for Concern.