Bull McCabe: "No Government will send a bill to me for my water."

One major selection dilemma haunts Alejandro Sabella ahead of the clash with Belgium; will he stick with calamity centre-half, Lorenzo?

A large part of the acting business is living in hope that the phone is going to ring or someone will come looking for you.

Why did nobody think of it before? The inaugural Richard Harris International Film Festival gets underway in his hometown of Limerick this weekend (Dec 6), 11 years after Ireland’s greatest Hollywood star of the 20th century passed away.

Author of The Field, John B Keane, would have travelled to Co Donegal to hear the case of a family split by a contested will over a family farm, a court heard yesterday.

Gay Byrne, Niall Tóibín and Brenda Fricker recount lasting memories from their meetings with John B Keane

IN THE winter of 1989, I was living in south-east London, in the not entirely lovely suburb of Lewisham.

WHATEVER the New Year has in store for Irish holidaymakers, you can be sure self-catering will be involved.

LIMERICK yesterday honoured its most celebrated son, Richard Harris.

RICHARD HARRIS was deservedly honoured in his home town yesterday.

The village immortalised in the film 'The Field' was thrown into chaos tonight as a flash flood washed away its century-old bridge.

THERE’S a powerful scene in the film of John B Keane’s play The Field where The Bull McCabe, a tenant farmer played by Richard Harris, raises his stick in angry defiance at being told that the three acres of rocky wasteland he has slaved over is about to be sold.

THE Irish love a rogue. He was a contemporary of Frank McCourt.

A SLIGO farmer is prepared to go on hunger strike or even to jail rather than pay a court fine.