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FOR Barbara Brennan it’s a case of déjà vu all over again. The Dublin thespian, one of the nation’s finest actresses, is currently playing Lady Catherine de Bourgh in tThe Gate’s lavish adaptation of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice.

FIRST published in 1813, Jane Austen’s piercing observation of society, social customs and snobbery, has enjoyed a popularity granted to few novels. Pride and Prejudice has become one of the best known and best loved works in English literature, and to date has sold in excess of 20m copies.

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Tony Bennett has made music history after he topped the album charts in America for the first time in his 60-year career and became the oldest living act ever to do so.

I KNOW a lady, in her eighties now, who used to take to the bed from time to time, when her children were living at home.

While the BBC’s version of Pride & Prejudice is often deemed the best, this one (Universal, €24.99) has the gorgeous Keira Knightley as the delectable Lizzie in this Jane Austen classic.

The Constant Gardener, the British film based on the John le Carre novel, stole the limelight from the Hollywood blockbusters with 10 Bafta nominations today.

WITH her Cabinet old man Bertie Ahern barely out of the country, Mary Harney last night unleashed another bout of shameless political flirting towards an opposition leader.

Director Joe Wright dismissed actress Keira Knightley as "too pretty" to play feisty Elizabeth Bennet in Pride And Prejudice - but changed his mind when he met her.

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