A man who dresses up as Cookie Monster in Times Square turned down a plea deal in a New York City case accusing him of shoving a two-year-old after his mother refused to tip him.

Love hurts, though not too badly, in Nicholas Stoller’s romantic comedy about a doe-eyed couple whose rose-tinted dreams of marital bliss are undone by the pressures of everyday life.

THOUGH he is not really a Muppet in the pejorative sense of the word, Enda Kenny would make a good Sesame Street character.

SESAME STREET’S Big Bird will soon be seen squawking away “as Gaeilge” for the first time — as part of TG4’s autumn schedule.