Below is a join-the-dots of some of 2020’s cultural anniversaries around Europe.

As we wait, eager and giddy, a collective shudder of agitated ardor ripples through the theatre, like a Late, Late Toyshow audience when they KNOW Ryan’s going to give them another €150 voucher. Suddenly, a voice booms from the stage. Everyone erupts, whooping and cheering. And that was just for the safety announcement.

Nine in ten women who have been killed in Ireland over the past 23 years have died at the hands of a man they knew.

We are finally realising who the real star of Sex and the City was. A new book pays tribute to Miranda and her go-getting feminism, writes Suzanne Harrington.

We must never forget. Four simple words, yet they have breath-stopping resonance when they are spoken by Charlotte Berger-Greneche, one of the children saved by the Cork woman who was memorialised yesterday at the official opening of the Mary Elmes bridge.

Tim Rabbitt hardly needs reminding that it’s almost four years since TG4 All-Ireland final opponents Dublin last failed to score a goal in the championship.

Greta’s urgency is about the survival of our species and is informed by hard scientific research carried out on behalf of the common good. Boris’s urgency is driven by ego and the egg on his and his party’s face, writes Joyce Fegan.

Mr Kenny took part in a two-day charity sailing event off the Isle of Wight, which saw him and his teammate, adventurer Bear Grylls, lift the trophy for first place.

I didn’t always know I wanted to pursue acting professionally, but I always knew I wanted to act.

Actor Peter Corboy in conversation with Hilary Fennell.

Clare Smyth is one of the world’s leading chefs. The centerpiece of the menu at her two-Michelin-starred restaurant? A potato. Richard Vines peels away her backstory.

‘She made them laugh’, would make a good epitaph for Charlotte Bingham, with her follow up to last year’s fictionised memoir about her time, in the 50s, working for MI5, writes Sue Leonard

At the ninth time of asking, Andy Moran was a winner in a national senior final on Sunday — and boy did it feel sweet.

Sometimes you have to write it down in a type of list format to make the point, even to yourself. 

Former athlete David Gillick talks with the kind of startling honesty that will give hope — and inspiration — to anyone who has ever taken comfort in binge eating to dampen down emotions, writes Clodagh Finn.

Throughout his visit to Ireland, many females rallied to help former slave Frederick Douglass in his campaign for abolition, writes Robert Hume.

The mother of an epileptic teenager is calling for a new "Billy's Law" in the North.

Any suggestion that the election of Donald Trump or that the 52/48 Brexit, vote could not have been achieved without the support of a cohort of ignorant, poorly educated voters would be dismissed as the kind of patronising arrogance that means Hilary Clinton can spend more time with her granddaughter Charlotte than she had anticipated and that David Cameron, at just 51, is free to write his autobiography, to give a “frank” account of his premiership.

After four failed attempts to overcome Dublin in All-Ireland finals, Andy Moran reckons he’s uncovered what it will take for Mayo to beat them: 20 points.

With her winning smile to match her father’s winning ways, Wayne Allen’s four year old daughter Charlotte doesn’t

A teenager has appeared in court charged with murdering a woman in Lisburn on Christmas Day.

Our coastal islands possess fascinating stories but the almost countless islands on Irish lakes have their fair share of stories too: an abandoned hippy colony on Roeillaun in Lough Corrib Co Galway; a round tower sacked by the Vikings on Devenish Island, Co Fermanagh. 

Geoff Power visits the North Yorkshire landscape that inspired the Bronte sisters and Bram Stoker, and visits the medieval town of York, a haven for anyone with a sweet tooth. 

With Kate Middleton expecting her third child, Andrea Mara wonders if three is the new two

A book by the actress Charlotte Rampling is strange in more ways than one. TP O’Mahony finds it to be a strange hybrid — neither an autobiography nor a memoir, but a collection of memories and musings.

Annie opens at the Opera House next week. Ciara McDonnell joins the cast in rehearsals to see what it takes to bring the musical to the stage

Ireland’s number one mum Esther Kelly-Keating loves a challenge but was completely gobsmacked when her daughter Charlotte nominated her for the title.

“We kindly ask everyone to respect that peace.”

The family of a teenage victim of the Manchester terror attack in England have urged people to choose love over hate in her memory.

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David Gillick is a member of the Vhi Support Team for the Women’s Mini Marathon on June 5.

With one in 10 men experiencing erectile dysfunction, specialists urge men to seek help and avail of a growing range of treatments, says Sharon Ní Chonchuir.

Wales manager Chris Coleman has revealed he considered playing for Ireland but his Irish father Paddy told him to pledge his future to Wales.

Emily Bronte wrote Wuthering Heights, Charlotte Bronte penned Jane Eyre, even their brother Branwell has become infamous for his attempts at poetry and equally his perpetual drunkenness. 

A mother who has walked over 200kms from Cork and Dublin in a desperate bid to secure medicinal cannabis for her seriously ill daughter has vowed this evening to camp outside the Dáil until the law is changed.

This self-published romantic novel shows bags of potential.

Forensics officers have locked down a neighbourhood in western France, searching for traces of a family that disappeared, leaving behind a bloody mobile phone, stripped beds and a home where "time froze".

Charlotte thought she was paying €440 for all three tickets, turns out that was the price for one ticket.

GREAT books have the power to make readers stop in their tracks and rethink everything they thought they knew. 

Colour trends for the New Year offer all sorts of decorating possibilities, writes Carol O’Callaghan.

Sam Jones is back.

Health chiefs have been asked to give scientific advice on the medical use of cannabis to the Government.