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THERE will be tears and tantrums from the start of Conrad Gallagher’s quest for Ireland’s Celebrity Head Chef next week.

CRYSTAL SWING singer Derek Burke is bringing a special someone to his graduation ball today after RTÉ presenter Lucy Kennedy agreed to be his date for the evening.

WITH just six days to go to Johannesburg and almost eight months since Paris, it is time to look on the bright side, time to move beyond the recognised five stages of grief – denial, anger, bargaining, depression and that “low-down, no-good, cheating b*****d Henry” – time to acknowledge that defeat in the play-off was the best thing that could have happened to us, that nothing good could have come of our boys going big game hunting in South Africa and that, all things considered, the nation has been spared a World Cup of pain.

SHE may only be two years old but Cork’s latest YouTube sensation has one “ella” of a voice – and could be following fellow Corkonians Crystal Swing onto the Ellen de Generes show.

IT WAS one of those seminal TV moments when you knew that nothing would ever be the same again.

INTERNET sensation Crystal Swing will help Eircom launch its new faster broadband service today.

Crystal Swing, the three-piece family band from Lisgoold, Co Cork have gone international after their song ‘He Drinks Tequila’ was mentioned by ‘American Idol’ judge Ellen DeGeneres.