Emma Donoghue

Vivien Leigh’s archive — including letters sent to husband Laurence Olivier and diaries written until just before the Gone With The Wind star’s death — have been acquired by London’s Victoria and Albert Museum&.

IT’S been a rare Irish summer of glorious sunshine and so the Gate Theatre’s new production of A Streetcar Named Desire couldn’t arrive at a more apt time.

Jack Klugman, the prolific, craggy-faced character actor and regular guy who was loved by millions as the messy one in TV’s The Odd Couple and the crime-fighting coroner in Quincy, M.E., died, a son said. He was 90.

It was a day of firsts at Croke Park yesterday.

There should be a huge crowd in Dundalk this evening where Milldean Panther returns to action in the Boylesports International .

Bookmaking firms were last night celebrating Galway’s Leinster SHC final victory over Kilkenny.

STANDING at the bottom of this main street on a grey Galway day, it’s difficult to believe that nothing on either side of you is in fact real.

CORK’S exit from the All-Ireland championship last night was welcome news for bookmakers recovering from a bad week at the Galway Races.

Sharp-tongued Blanche Hunt has beaten Weatherfield legends such as Hilda Ogden and Elsie Tanner to be named Coronation Street’s best-loved character of all time.

RUE McCLANAHAN, the Emmy-winning actress who brought the sexually liberated Southern belle, Blanche Devereaux, to life on the hit TV series The Golden Girls, has died aged 76.

Coronation Street’s William Roache, who plays Ken Barlow in the soap, revealed today how difficult he found it to film the funeral of his on-screen mother-in-law Blanche Hunt.

Tracy Barlow will return to ‘Coronation Street’ for Blanche Hunt’s funeral.

Former ‘Coronation Street’ star Sean Wilson, who played Martin Platt, has revealed he left the show because there were plans to turn him into a paedophile.

CORONATION Street actress Maggie Jones, who played sharp-tongued Blanche Hunt, has died at the age of 75.

Coronation Street actress Maggie Jones, who played sharp-tongued Blanche Hunt, has died at the age of 75.

Coronation Street star Maggie Jones, who plays battleaxe Blanche Hunt, has got a “cheeky grin” back on her face as she recovers from emergency surgery, her co-star Michael Le Vell revealed today.

'Coronation Street’ star Maggie Jones is fighting for her life.

THIS will be an All-Ireland football final with bite the day old scores may be settled.

A pregnant woman who had just returned from her grandfather's funeral was killed when another woman deliberately rammed her car into a crowd during a street brawl, US authorities said.

British actress Natasha Richardson will portray Tennessee Williams’s fragile, faded Southern beauty Blanche du Bois in a Broadway revival of A Streetcar Named Desire, opening next spring.

All I Want stars Elijah Wood as 17-year-old Jones Dillon who has dropped out of college to become a writer and to find himself.

IT was claimed yesterday that the thought of Maxine Carr going on a wild night out may have pushed jealous and possessive Ian Huntley over the edge on the evening he killed Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman.

Veteran actor Bernard Cribbins – best known for his role in The Railway Children and as the voice of The Wombles – is to join the cast of Coronation Street, it was announced today.

Neighbours may not be the most cerebral of shows on TV but it does occasionally stretch itself intellectually.

Coronation Street's Blanche Hall is to be romanced by a new man in Weatherfield.