They looked a right Charlie but there just weren’t enough of them to break the world record.

The great irony about Charlie Chaplin’s long association with Waterville was it might never have happened in the first place.

Tipperary 1-15 Clare 1-11

Peter Ackroyd is one of the most productive and elegant biographers writing in English today but is often accused of not uncovering anything new about his subjects. That doesn’t matter, he tells Tony Clayton-Lea

Tired limbs and bruised bodies will emerge through the tunnel at Cusack Park tomorrow afternoon, hurlers from both sides carried by the big M: momentum.

Charlie Chaplin

Deep down music has always been the root of me.

Dr Crokes (Kerry) 0-13 Cratloe (Clare) 0-12

Pádraig Chaplin is fine-tuning the wiring in Setrights tavern.

Clare manager, All-Ireland winning goalkeeper, but to the people of Sixmilebridge, Davy Fitzgerald will be forever known as that youngster out at the mill wall.

Robert Downey Jr. says it is inevitable he will win an Oscar.

Religious freedom is a right but not an absolute one, Europe’s top court said, ruling that British Airways discriminated against a devoutly Christian employee by making her remove her crucifix, but backing a British charity that fired a marriage counsellor who refused to give sex therapy to gay couples.

Newmarket-on-Fergus 3-10 Cratloe 0-09

Cratloe 1-14 Inagh/Kilnamona 0-14

More than 2,500 rowers and up to 10,000 visitors will descend on Courtmacsherry this weekend as the West Cork village hosts the All Ireland Coastal Rowing Championships.

In a county where legends are mostly of the footballing variety, Kerry celebrates one of its most famous “blow-ins” with a dedicated comedy film festival this weekend.

A 64th-minute pointed free from halfway by Broadford’s Pádraig Hickey earned his side a draw with title-holders Crusheen in the opening game of the Clare SHC at Ennis’s Cusack Park on Friday evening last.

Munster and All-Ireland champions Clare cruised into a second successive provincial intermediate hurling decider at Semple Stadium yesterday.

Charlie Chaplin may have been the quintessential English movie star, but his exotic dark looks and legendary performing genes could be thanks to his great grandmother, who was a gypsy from Cork.

New album Strangeland is a return to heartfelt sound adored by their fans, says Ed Power

Keane suffered "constant abuse" in their earlier career.

There was irony aplenty at O’Connor Park, Tullamore yesterday as Aaron Cunningham, son of Offaly coach Alan, landed the decisive 70th minute winning point as Clare maintained their 100% record in Division 1B of the Allianz NHL.

Offaly 0-19 Clare 2-14

The real name and birthplace of Charlie Chaplin is shrouded in mystery, Britain’s domestic spy agency concluded after a probe into US claims he was a communist sympathiser, newly released documents reveal.

Despite the insistence of Clare manager Davy Fitzgerald that the result of this Waterford Crystal Cup semi-final yesterday will be an “utter irrelevancy’’ when the counties meet in the June Munster championship semi-final, the Banner boss must have been impressed at the way his charges performed.

AFTER a humdrum week of cup football, one question jostled for attention above all others: What has become of the great English love of mime?

THE first annual Charlie Chaplin Comedy Film Festival this week in Waterville will reveal the great film-maker’s secrets for catching the best sea trout, as well as honouring his humour, organisers said yesterday.

SO DID Mickey Harte and the gang of six or seven or eight cross the line this week? Until Hawk-Eye is finally installed and working right, I suppose we won’t know. We certainly don’t want to start a family feud by asking the umpires.

THE emergency services who saved six of the 12 passengers of last Thursday’s fateful Manx2 flight, were given a spontaneous round of applause as they attended a Mass in memory of the victims yesterday.

Robert Downey Jr thinks he will win an Oscar when he doesn’t deserve to.

Charlie Chaplin’s status as an extraordinary talent was already known, but a new web video would have him be a visionary too.

FOR the past 14 years, it has drawn thousands of visitors to the seaside town of Waterville in Co Kerry.

Robert Downey Jr. has been honoured for his “versatility” as an actor.

The hurley snaps. (It reminds me of tent poles I’ve seen halved by falling fat guys, late at night, after the music has long ended at a festival). But the special spine holds it together safely.

Senior bishops today claimed Christians in Britain are being “treated with disrespect” while followers of other faiths are dealt with more sensitively.

IT WAS a very crowded scene in the LIT goalmouth yesterday in the final seconds of this Fitzgibbon Cup quarter-final as UCD’s Maurice Nolan – his side needing a goal to send the game into extra-time – stood over a 30m free.

Leading French actor Boon, a modern-day answer to Chaplin and Keaton, is at his best in this quirky and utterly mad, tumbling film, one that races from one outstanding cinematic delight – and surprise – to another.

NEW Clare senior hurling manager Ger ‘Sparrow’ O’Loughlin has appointed Danny Chaplin as a selector.

BRITISH attempts to improve “dire” planning for the aftermath of the Iraq invasion were repeatedly ignored by the US, the inquiry into the war heard yesterday.

British attempts to improve “dire” planning for the aftermath of the Iraq invasion were repeatedly ignored by the US, the inquiry into the war heard today.

Charlie Chaplin’s last home in Switzerland will be turned into a permanent place of pilgrimage for fans of the actor who immortalised the “Little Tramp”, one of his sons said today.

Clare SHC Final: Clonlara 1-9 Cratloe 3-5

This is a new version of Oscar Wilde’s classic tale of the handsome young man of the title (Barnes) who sells his soul for an eternity of staying handsome and living a life of debauchery while a portrait in the attic turns ugly and terrifying.