The IFTA Awards 2015 is all change - including splitting the event in twain to honour Film & Drama in May and TV in October - and there's more change on the way in the form of new presenter Caroline Morahan!

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The Irish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ISPCA) has launched a nationwide campaign to discourage tail docking after it became an offence under recent legislation.

TV presenter Caroline Morahan is proud to be Irish but there’s one thing she is happy to embrace about her life in LA: alcohol awareness.

Young Irish holidaymakers can drink so much abroad they have to be admitted to hospital with potentially serious heart issues on their return to this country.

Just in case you weren't all completely Garth Brooks-ed out...

I went to LA for a long weekend and six months later I was living there.

I never planned to get into modelling or presenting.

While international film stars will be thin on the ground at tonight’s Irish Film and Television Awards in Dublin’s Convention Centre, a huge turnout of Irish stars and celebrities is expected at what is regarded by some as Ireland’s answer to the Oscars.

Actress and TV presenter Caroline Morahan married her partner of five years, Daithi O Caoimh, at Santa Maria di Provenzano church in Siena Tuscany, Italy yesterday.

WITH love in the air this weekend, there is no shortage of bouquet bargains and surveys telling men what women want.

THE country is still creaking under the strain of winter weather but TV3 yesterday tried to brighten the mood with the launch of its spring schedule.

A GLAMOROUS 18-year-old whose ambition is to become a fashion model sashayed away from the Fáilte Ireland Dublin Horse Show last evening with the first prize worth €10,000 as overall winner of the Evian Ladies Day fashion showpiece.

The Seoige sister act of Gráinne and Síle have come together to anchor their own daily TV show.

YOU’RE A Star TV show presenter Brian Ormond and his girlfriend, model Pippa O’Connor, will judge the Queen of Fashion competition at Killarney Races, on July 17.

THE first triathlon in central Dublin aims to raise up to €250,000 to combat homelessness.

ROUNDING off a weekend of star-studded award ceremonies and film premieres in Dublin, the fifth Irish Film and Television Awards (IFTAs) didn’t fail to bring out a mix of Hollywood stars and home-grown talent.

More than €7.5m was raised by the Irish public during the RTE People in Need Telethon, it was announced today.

KATE MOSS may get all the attention but most women think of her more as dartboard material than fashion inspiration.

RTÉ style guru Caroline Morahan yesterday laced up her hiking boots to launch the Focus Ireland Four Peaks mountain challenge.

The competition was red-hot at this year’s Irish Film and Television Awards as stars of the stage and screen strutted their finery on the carpet.

REPUBLIC of Ireland football manager Steve Staunton picked up tips on how to improve the team’s performance in the European Championships during a surprise Christmas visit to Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital in Dublin yesterday.

THE modern Irish bride and groom invite, on average, 158 guests to their wedding and they spend an average €8,500 on their reception.

IRELAND’S most successful fashion extravaganza returns to the RDS in Dublin today.

Hollywood starlet Mischa Barton will ensure there is a touch of California style at this weekend’s Irish Film & Television Awards.

GENUFLECTIONS before the altar of Gucci and deferential bows to Dolce and Gabbana - the fawning and fluttering normally on display in the Brown Thomas Shoe Rooms was reserved for just one type of footwear last night.

A 12-year-old rapper wowed the 100,000-strong crowd tonight at Ireland’s largest free concert.

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IRELAND’S queen of style Caroline Morahan yesterday confirmed a coveted place in the pantheon of the country’s most-invited socialites as the RTÉ presenter was crowned the Jameson Number One party person of 2004 with Social & Personal magazine.

COMPUTER users will be urged to “get secure and stay secure” by tackling the threat of viruses, malicious attacks and hackers when the first national computer security day takes place tomorrow.

A HOST of international and Irish celebrities gathered in Dublin last night for the Meteor Ireland Music Awards at the Point Depot.

DOCTORS’ WAITING rooms could be less crowded and hospital lists shorter if people took a more preventative approach to their health by using homeopathy, according to the Irish Society of Homeopaths (ISH).

RTÉ managing director Cathal Goan promises an autumn schedule of more new home-produced drama, more factual programming and several new entertainment strands — as well as more programming for young people.