Fury (15A) stars Brad Pitt as Don ‘Wardaddy’ Collier, the commander of a US Army Sherman tank operating in Nazi Germany during the last months of the Third Reich’s last stand. 

Kate Kerrigan has lost her almost-completed eighth novel, stored on a laptop left in the back of a Dublin taxi.

IT STRUCK a sensitive nerve when the poet WJ Mc Cormack, aka Hugh Maxton, this week defended Aosdána’s annual funding of €2.7 million by mentioning that Fair City cost €11 million. This fact was met, according to an RTÉ report, with laughter from the floor of Aosdána’s general assembly meeting at the Royal Hospital, Kilmainham.

The new series of Love/Hate will match the standards set by last year’s hit series.

On Twitter Yvonne Keating describes herself as a domestic engineer, model and TV broadcaster.

A romcom based on one of Cecilia Ahern’s best-selling novels is set to begin shooting this summer with Phil Collins’s daughter in the lead role.

The top five Irish entertainers on the Sunday Times Young Rich list have become even wealthier.

THE outcome of a public vote for the best Irish book of the last decade may not be revealed until next week, but sales through one website alone would make John Boyne’s The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas a hands down winner.

ANYONE seeking proof of Ireland’s record as the most indebted country in Europe should probably avoid Punchestown.

Christina Applegate has prompted speculation she could be heading down the aisle with rocker boyfriend Martyn Lenoble, after confessing she dreams of marrying again.

THE choice of short-listed titles for this year’s Irish Book Awards features an extraordinary mix of authors and the outcome should be extraordinary too, because, for the first time, the public can vote for their favourite books.

CECILIA AHERN’S latest novel is called The Gift. It is a work of fiction and not about her father, the former taoiseach Bertie Ahern, but he enjoys a rare political gift that even a novelist of Cecilia’s imagination would be hard-pressed to put down on paper without testing credulity too much.

IRELAND’S own Oscar Schindler, a pirate queen and dancehall visit from Satan himself — will all feature in documentaries on TG4 this autumn.

FASHION designer Helen Cody, who has succeeded in replacing haute couture garments stolen from her studio over a month ago, was not going to let it rain on her fashion parade in Dublin.

POPULAR Irish and international authors such as Marian Keyes, John Grisham, Maeve Binchy, Roddy Doyle and Cecilia Ahern are set for an income boost following a recent ruling by the European Court of Justice (ECJ).

IT’S A tough job but somebody has got to do it! Jonathan Loughran will get to meet some of the top movie directors and film stars in Hollywood over the next few years… and all on behalf of the Irish taxpayer.

POLITICAL and business leaders joined members of Charles Haughey’s family yesterday in a requiem Mass for the former Taoiseach at Our Lady of Consolation Church in Donnycarney.

EVEN in death, Charlie maintained his renown for a certain sense of mischief, which some might even call defiance.

Cecilia Ahern's debut novel PS I Love You is reportedly finally making it to the big screen.

Over 4,000 new jobs will be created tomorrow as the country’s largest shopping centre throws open its doors.

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.

It won't surprise you to learn that Cecilia Ahern, daughter of Taoiseach Bertie, has sold the film rights to her first novel - P.S. I Love You - to Warner Brothers.

THE green-eyed monster appears to be gobbling up a fair few book critics and newspaper columnists.

Taoiseach's daughter Cecilia Ahern was signing copies of her book in Dublin today.

ADULTS are joining with children in the fun of reading for a good cause. But can they top the half million books read by 30,000 children who raised €1m for last year’s MS Readathon?

“I HAVE a phone in one hand and a baby in the other. Ring me back in three minutes.” Such is the hectic lifestyle of Ireland’s latest celebrity writer, Liz Allen.

The youngest daughter of Taoiseach Bertie Ahern has landed a million dollar book deal with a US publisher.

By Carl O'Brien