STYLISTICALLY similar to Irvine Welsh’s Trainspotting, the characters in Jules Grant’s debut novel do not only speak in dialect, they narrate in it too.

There's just something in our eyes!

Three, two, one… CHRISTMAS.

WALES: Viking coins from 1,000 years ago have been officially declared as treasure.

TWO thousand, one hundred twenty-two people are living in a multigenerational starship, headed to Tau Ceti, 11.9 light-years from Earth.

Buzzfeed have put together this historically accurate look at what Belle, Jasmine and the others would have really looked like.

Jon Voight says it was "wonderful" watching his granddaughter in 'Maleficent'.

Maleficent ****

JOHN O’BRIEN is one of the key people behind what might be Cork’s golden age of opera and musical theatre.

One of the finest Russian companies, The Royal Moscow Ballet, returns to Ireland this week, bringing its dazzling production of the well-loved classic, Cinderella, to Drogheda, Limerick, Dublin and Cork.

Well a Disney Princess anyway

WHEN Cork City Ballet’s Sleeping Beauty opens at Cork Opera House on Thursday, it’s probably safe to say the majority of the audience will be women.

Investigators looking for clues to the motive behind a shooting rampage at a screening of the new Batman movie sought to enter the suspect's elaborately booby-trapped apartment today.

The man arrested in connection with today's fatal shootings in a Colorado cinema has been named by police as local man James Holmes.

An award-winning journalist in Alaska, Eowyn enjoyed her varied job, but being a reporter was never her passion. So she left, and worked in an independent bookshop; and it was there that she gained the energy and creative spirit to experiment with fiction. She spent five years working on a novel.

It looks like J-1 is in love.