With handicaps ranging from plus 4 to 1.1, the high quality of the entry for the West Coast Hotels sponsored South of Ireland Championship beginning at Lahinch this morning is a source of considerable satisfaction for the organising committee.

Munster’s bid for a third Interprovincial Championship victory in four years was crushed decisively by Leinster’s young guns on the Sandy Hills at Rosapenna Hotel and Golf Resort in Donegal.

Billionaire playboy lives a life of lust and luxury goods

DESPITE a design world frenzied by terraces of blocky base units, pumping with colour and sharply edged in flashes of streamlined steel, the classic country-themed kitchen still retains its hold on our hearts.

Munster pulled off a considerable surprise when they hammered host province Leinster 7½ to 3½ on the opening day of the Senior Interprovincial Championship at The Island yesterday.

There’s nothing inhabitants of 19th holes across Ireland like more than a sporting debate and they, among others, will think Brian Keogh’s recently compiled list of the top 100 Irish amateur men is manna from heaven.

Dungarvan’s Kevin Stack and West Waterford’s Gary Hurley kept Munster interest alive in the Radisson Blu sponsored West of Ireland Championship at a sun-kissed County Sligo.

MUCH sport is to be had watching a celebrity unravel — until it is obvious they are headed for a sticky end. While Justin Bieber is no Amy Winehouse, he is a young man in trouble.

Adapted from a series of comics, ‘R.I.P.D.’ (an acronym for Rest In Peace Department) is an otherworldly action adventure in a similar vein to ‘Men In Black’, which pairs a grizzled veteran and a gung-ho newcomer in a hunt for earthbound monsters.

A one-ton rover as big as a Mini is due to land on Mars on Monday in one of the most daring space missions ever attempted.

Malahide teenager Gavin Moynihan joined major winners Padraig Harrington and Louis Oosthuizen on the roll of champions when he produced a brilliant short game display and defied near gale force winds to clinch the Irish Amateur Open in dramatic fashion at Royal Dublin.

Jeff Bridges suffers from “reverse vanity”.

Jeff Bridges loves to be called "The Dude" in the street.

THE youngest and oldest players in the field met with mixed fortunes in yesterday’s second round of the South of Ireland Championship at Lahinch.

Jeff Bridges has been confirmed for a role in 'R.I.P.D'.

Back in the 1980s, Kevin Flynn (Jeff Bridges) revolutionised the world with his technology corporation ENCOM.

It’s not often a remake of a much loved film betters the original but here the Coens have not only bettered the John Wayne yarn of 1969 – for which he won his Academy Award (without in truth deserving it) – but shown it for what it really was: hardly a classic but a decent journeyman Western.

Jeff Bridges won't feel guilty if he beats Colin Firth to the Best Actor prize at this year's Oscars.

Jeff Bridges is planning on recording a duet with Elton John.

Former Academy Awards host Hugh Jackman is returning to the Oscar stage.

Jeff Bridges’ father inspired him never to get typecast.

After 28 years we return to one of the most original, if not fully successful, films of its time, a film that acted as the standard-bearer of all the high-tech, computer-based, futuristic dramas that followed.

Jeff Bridges would like to retire from acting, to be replaced by a digital version of himself.

Singer Janet Jackson paid tribute today to former child star Gary Coleman, the pint-sized child star of 1970s TV sitcom 'Diff’rent Strokes', who died following a brain haemorrhage.

Jeff Bridges is pleased to be going back to ‘Tron’.

KATHRYN BIGELOW played field commander to bring her raw, relentless Iraq War thriller The Hurt Locker to the screen.

WON a best actor Oscar, his first, for his role in Crazy Heart as a drunken country singer who finds redemption.

Kathryn Bigelow today celebrated winning a place in Oscars history after becoming the first woman to be named best director while her Iraq war drama 'The Hurt Locker' landed best film.

Dubliner Richard Baneham has won an Oscar for his work on visual effects on 'Avatar', but it was director Kathryn Bigelow and 'The Hurt Locker' who emerged as the victors from the battle of the blockbusters at the awards ceremony in Los Angeles last night.

The Harlem drama 'Precious' won five prizes last night at the Spirit Awards honouring independent film, including best picture and trophies for stars Gabourey Sidibe and Mo’Nique and director Lee Daniels.

Wayne Bridge has decided to make himself unavailable for England selection.

Jeff Bridges wants to take on a final great role before he dies.

Jeff Bridges didn’t want to please his dad by becoming an actor.

That wonderful actor Jeff Bridges never delivers less than perfect performances, and that is certainly true of this outstanding film.

Jeff Bridges wants to make a second 'Big Lebowski' movie.

Jeff Bridges admits he is a “pretty lazy guy”.

WHILE Jeff Bridges and Sandra Bullock’s chances for Academy Award gold were advanced with their trophies at the Screen Actors Guild Awards, the blockbuster Avatar may have felt a touch blue.

Jeff Bridges of 'Crazy Heart' and Sandra Bullock of 'The Blind Side' claimed top acting honours today at the Screen Actors Guild Awards, building momentum for possible Oscars glory.

The science-fiction blockbuster 'Avatar' won best drama at the Golden Globes and picked up the directing honour for James Cameron, raising the 'Titanic' filmmaker's prospects for another Academy Awards triumph.

It’s all – sort of – true, as those of you who have given your moggie the vapours by staring at it will testify. Cats, as well as goats, just don’t like being stared at.

Jeff Bridges nearly died filming an elaborate stunt, he has revealed.

Jeff Bridges is set to play John Wayne’s iconic character in ‘True Grit’.

A BRITISH gem expert died after being attacked in Kenya, it emerged yesterday.