There’s always a Twitter wag who can cut to the quick of what a lot of us are thinking: Imagine a competition where men line up in their finery to be interviewed by Gráinne Seoige and to dance a jig while their dads weep in the audience and say how much they love their Irish granny. No? Too much to imagine?

What a year it’s been for Lottie Ryan - she’s had a double romantic wedding, is still enjoying the honeymoon period with her new husband, and has made a big career move to prime time weekday radio, writes Esther McCarthy. 

I read with interest the piece by Caroline Delaney on Dec 3 about accents. It has grated on my ear for a long time now how the vowel ‘o’ has disappeared from certain ways of speaking in Ireland, especially on RTÉ.

PHOTOGRAPHERS stood a respectable distance away to take shots of Katy French’s white-rose-sprayed coffin being taken into the church yesterday.