It’s now almost mandatory to have an entertaining sketch video as part of your big day but these two lads from Valentia Island really went all out.

Jeremy Irons is one of the people John Creedon encounters in his new series, Creedon’s Wild Atlantic Way, on RTÉ One tomorrow.

I’ve always been a bit of a showman deep down. My idea of misery is a world without music.

Plenty to watch on the tellybox tonight.

Modern highbrow comedians may have third level qualifications, but unfortunately they have lost the art of extracting spontaneous laughter from an audience. Or could it be possible people no longer laugh as much?

The local government minister has been asked to intervene to ensure cash-strapped local authorities don’t have to pass the cost of their local property tax bills on to council tenants.

Thousands of Cork City Council tenants could face rent hikes to help the local authority pay a €1.2m property tax bill.

Putin governs Russia with all the panache of a Bond villain, says Dave Kenny. Or so his photoshoots suggest

Hardworking musician, singer and songwriter, David Hope’s new album, Scarecrow, features 11 tastefully penned songs by the big man from Shannon, in Co Clare.

What is it about Christmas that makes movies, music and books so awfully naff? Richard Fitzpatrick gets nostalgic

THE London 2012 Olympics carries a lot of positive messages for girls and women.

THE FIRST thing you see when you walk into the James Bond exhibition Designing 007 — 50 Years of Bond Style, in London, is a dead body, a naked, gold, female dead body, face down on a bed.

Fittingly, the lacklustre referendum campaign finally died of embarrassment in the very place it had been trapped in all along — a dead end.

THERE are guilty pleasures and then there is the Eurovision Song Contest.

Silent film 'The Artist' made a big noise at the Bafta film awards last night winning seven awards including Best Film, Leading Actor and Best Director.

Silent film The Artist made a big noise at the Bafta film awards last night winning seven awards including Best Film, Leading Actor and Best Director.

Silent film ‘The Artist’ made a big noise at the BAFTA film awards tonight winning seven awards including Best Film, Leading Actor and Best Director.

THE woman looked towards Enda Kenny and exclaimed: “Oh, he’s gorgeous, he’s just adorable, I can’t wait to play with him!”

A riot at an open prison in England was brought under control after a New Year’s Day rampage by inmates thought to have been sparked by attempts to breathalyse them to check for contraband alcohol.

A riot at an English prison was triggered after some prisoners refused to be breathalysed for alcohol, according to Mark Freeman, deputy general secretary of the UK Prison Officers Association.

THE good news was that Eamon Gilmore thought he had finally found the much fabled road to democratic socialism, the bad news was he’d taken a wrong turn off the road to personal dignity to get there.

WELL, what a great week that was to be a Chelsea fan! The Liverpool game was hilarious. We were awful and deserved nothing from the game — which is what made Riise’s intervention even more fantastic. Right in the middle of a rendition of “You’ll Ne-ver Wa-alk Al……oh”. Cue mental abandon in the Chelsea end. I still have the bruises.

AS a visual metaphor for the rainbow alternative, the image of a bloated man in a blue shirt, draped in a tattered red cape and swaggering aimlessly in circles wasn’t, perhaps, the wisest.

AUSTRALIAN coach Kevin Sheedy claims International Rules football is “the fastest game in the world”.

AT times it was reminiscent of one of those speeded-up Benny Hill sketches, in which our hero would chase scantily clad women down the street.

Tommy Cooper has been voted Britain’s favourite funnyman of all time.

Robert Kilroy-Silk was centre stage again today at the launch of the UK Independence Party’s European election campaign.

The young stars of ITV’s Pop Idol were celebrating today after the hit show scooped Europe’s top television honour the prestigious Golden Rose of Montreux.

Pop Idol has won Europe's top television honour - the prestigious Golden Rose of Montreux.

British born actress Jane Leeves is poised to join the ranks of the highest paid TV stars in the world.