Esther N McCarthy goes for graffiti artists, gold lamps and glorious coffee this weekend.

“Nice guys finish last,” so goes the old sports adage — Irish Olympian Thomas Patrick Barr is one of the truer exceptions.

The evening prior to his Diamond League debut in mid-May, Thomas Barr posted a picture of the men’s 400m hurdles startlist on his Instagram account.

Kya deLongchamps shows the value of provenance when is comes to collecting celluloid from the golden age of animation.

DCU’s Centre for Talented Youth was set up to inspire gifted children across the country. Our 17 year old "The way I see it" columnist Ellie Menton filled us in on what she gets out of Ireland’s real life "nerdcamp".

Now that the unthinkable has happened and Meath have lost to Westmeath, is it time to revisit Martin McHugh’s much ridiculed explanation for the decline of Gaelic football in the county?

Darren Norris visited the Mediterranean nation with the preconceived idea that it was only for the middle-aged and upwards — and only to be explored in the summer. He was wrong on both counts, he admits.

With Disney remaking many of its classics as live action films, Saturday Night Live tried to imagine what an updated Bambi would look like.

As long as a gift is nice, it doesn’t matter if it’s a day late.

Emily Blunt thinks 'Frozen' triggered her labour.

SWISS CHAIN SORRY FOR ‘UNFORGIVABLE’ PACKAGING

Katie Price has said she wants more kids and is considering using a surrogate.

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This week, a terminally ill teenager (Shailene Woodley) experiences the pangs of love for the first time in The Fault In Our Stars, Clint Eastwood directs the film version of the hit stage musical Jersey Boys and Kevin Costner slays to survive in the action thriller 3 Days to Kill.

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IN order to write another book without the aid of an advance, and to raise expensive children without the aid of a co-parent, my household is stuffed with paying guests, and is starting to resemble a United Colours of Benetton advert. Except scruffier.

Our pundits take a look at the ins and outs of this week's action.

As the fantasy epic returns, Paula Burns lauds the impact of the female characters

Agyness Deyn was left "bruised" learning to strip for her role in 'Pusher'.

Brad Pitt has splashed out on graffiti paintings of the British royal family.

Robbie Williams has bought a £30,000 (€36,000) artwork for his unborn baby.

BAMBI, Forrest Gump and Hannibal Lecter have at least one thing in common: Their cinematic adventures were chosen by the Library of Congress to be preserved in the world’s largest archive of film, TV and sound recordings.

The Taoiseach looked like Bambi in the headlights, as he struggled to deal with the fallout from the Moriarty report, writes Political Correspondent Shaun Connolly

The TV personality Kerry Katona – who famously underwent cosmetic surgery on her reality show – admitted after having four children, Molly, nine, Lilly-Sue, seven, Heidi, three, and two-year-old Max, she would like her chest to fill out again.

Kerry Katona said training for the latest series of 'Dancing On Ice' has been “complete therapy” – despite spraining her ribs on the rink.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers is returning to rehab.

Martin Johnson last night challenged England’s underdogs to prove they have the bite and snarl to tame Wales in their own back yard this weekend.

Ruby Walsh is confident he can waste down to close to the minimum weight in order to give Granit Jack his optimum chance in Saturday's Paddy Power Gold Cup.

THE received wisdom is that any minister who goes up against nurses is a lone lemming, headed over a cliff.

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Janet Leigh‘s famous shower scene in the Hitchcock thriller Psycho is still the “best movie death”, according to experts.

The Walt Disney Company chief executive Michael Eisner has been compared to the hunter who bagged Bambi’s mother, but he is also responsible for the firm earning $1bn in the first three months of its financial year. Kyran Fitzgerald reports.

FORMER Hollywood madam Heidi Fleiss sobbed on the witness stand as she told a jury how her love affair with Black Hawk Down actor Tom Sizemore turned into a violent, abusive relationship.

CONVICTED multiple murderer Jeremy Bamber yesterday offered a £1 million reward to anyone with fresh evidence that could prove he was innocent.