As the French film festival reaches its end, Helen Barlow looks at this year’s hits, misses and talking points.

Ellie O’Byrne chats to Cork Sound Fair founder Conor Ruane

An undercover detective went beyond the call of duty when he helped deliver a newborn baby.

WITH one of the best opening lines for a book I’ve read in a long time, LA-based Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney plunges her readers into the chaotic lives of the Plumb family, which all revolve around the charismatic golden boy Leo.

A Hologram for the King 3/5

ENGLAND: A Sun journalist told how he was “humiliated” in the newspaper by a boss who ordered a new Dear Deidre column focusing on his decision to turn down a job in New York.

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WHAT a conundrum. What a bother. What a pickle and a palaver. Frankly, we need to talk about Kazuo.

Michel Faber

British royal couple Kate Middleton and Prince William are "very pleased to announce" that they are expecting their second child.

Princess Eugenie of York made a “last minute” decision to go to Wimbledon and is there to support her namesake Eugenie Bouchard in today’s final.

Was Cressida right to leave the royals? Yes, says Suzanne Harrington.

Noah ****

OVER the years, there have been many odes to the city that never sleeps.

Brendan Behan died 50 years ago this week, He was as famous for his drinking as for his undoubted talents, says Ryle Dwyer

Brendan Behan died 50 years ago today. Alan O’Riordan remembers his flawed brilliance

A new documentary about Páidí Ó Sé as seen through the local people who knew him best reveals the gaping cavity left in his life after football.

An economist, Diarmuid has always had literary leanings.

Are Prince Andrew and his former wife, Sarah Ferguson, considering remarrying, 17 years after their divorce.

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s a messiah.

You wait ages for a good revenge thriller to come along, and then Dead Man Down (15A) packs two revenge scenarios into the same movie.

Like so many European film-makers, Niels Arden Oplev has answered Hollywood’s siren song.

A ceremonial funeral with military honours will be held in London today for Baroness Margaret Thatcher. Rachel Marie Walsh takes a closer look at the style history of the original power dresser

The Irish women’s European Cross-Country winning team will be amongst the medal favourites in the 40th edition of the IAAF World Cross-Country Championships in snow-swept Bydgoszcz, Poland tomorrow.

When the Bush administration decided to go to war in 2003, David Frum found himself at the centre of a daunting messaging effort. He looks back on the fraught times that followed Bush’s ‘Axis of Evil’ speech

Frank Hederman’s Belvelly smokehouse is also a hard-working, food- producing and tasty family home. Tommy Barker goes to visit

Everyone has a “Páidí story” and they came yesterday as fast as the man himself ever ran around Croke Park.

My earliest memory of Páidí Ó Sé is of a young lad in perpetual motion with ball in hand playing against the gable end of his house in Árd a’ Bhothair or soloing up the cosach, that picturesque little byroad to Dunquin.

HE was known as “Pio”.

Mothers watching the Olympics say they are relieved they have been able to take their babies after organisers backtracked on plans to make them have their own tickets.

Paul McCartney's daughter has still not forgiven Piers Morgan for introducing him to Heather Mills.

Paul McCartney has revealed he has finally given up smoking cannabis after deciding “enough’s enough”.

Paul McCartney has revealed he has finally given up smoking cannabis after deciding “enough’s enough”.

Bryce Dallas Howard has given birth to her second child.

Heather Mills was left terrified by a cancer scare before Christmas.

THE Duke of Edinburgh missed the Royal Family’s annual St Stephen’s Day shoot yesterday as he remained in hospital following a heart scare.

Heather Mills is renting out her country estate.

FORMER Beatle, Paul McCartney, and American heiress, Nancy Shevell, were married yesterday, emerging joyously from a 45-minute civil ceremony to be showered with confetti from fans.

Brian May, Katy Perry and My Chemical Romance all paid tribute to Freddie Mercury on what would have been his 65th birthday yesterday.

The famed French coast is much more than just Cannes and Saint-Tropez. David Monagan explores the hidden gems of the area just waiting to be explored by visitors

Newly published this week

Television heart-throb David Tennant has been given the critics’ seal of approval for his latest stage role in a modern-day production of Shakespeare’s 'Much Ado About Nothing'.