A new film starring Kate Beckinsale is just about to arrive in cinemas, called Love & Friendship.

AN irreplaceable part of Ireland’s patrimony is to be auctioned off in London, though last Saturday President Michael D Higgins presided at the 20th anniversary celebration of the Heritage Council, writes Gerard Howlin.

NEWBRIDGE House, a fine 18th Century mansion in north County Dublin, was the ancestral home of the Cobbe family, whose ranks included an archbishop and a Lord Lieutenant.

British restorers unwittingly altered what is believed to be the only known portrait made of William Shakespeare during his lifetime, it was claimed today.