Nightclub boss Oliver Hughes conceded yesterday to being “pleased” as one of the country’s best-known night venues, Lillie’s Bordello, celebrates turning 21 with a profitable year.

Brace yourself for the boxing analogies.

ALREADY assured of their places in the knockout stages of the Dr Harty Cup after Christmas, St Flannan’s, Our Ladys and Midleton CBS didn’t spare their opponents in their final game in the round robin series yesterday.

George Clooney and Meryl Streep will help the London Film Festival open with a bang today as they walk the red carpet for the world premiere of 'Fantastic Mr Fox', based on Roald Dahl’s classic children’s book.

Is Anybody There? (Cert 12, 90 mins, Drama/Comedy,)

A strange film with a somewhat morbid theme, that of a 10-year-old boy obsessed with taping the old folk in the home run by his parents in order to find out what happens when they die who forms an off-centre friendship with a newly-arrived old man.

Michael Caine has revealed that he plans to retire from acting if he is not offered any more good films.

BRITISH prime minister Gordon Brown joined stars including Bono and Stephen Fry yesterday for the funeral of writer, broadcaster and former Liberal MP Clement Freud.

Tipperary 1-21 Cork 0-17

For a film about two such interesting characters as Henry VIII’s second wife, Anne (Portman) and her younger sister, Mary (Johansson) it’s amazing what an uninteresting film this turns out to be.

A film adapted from a book by Dick King-Smith (he of Babe) that tries, without the soft-centre, to be a kind of E.T.

Even with Oscar winner Swank and that fine Irish actor Rea in this horror film it still manages to be no better than run-of-the-mill average.

SHARON STONE should have trusted her first Basic Instinct and left it alone, according to voters of the Razzies, which mocks the worst of Hollywood.

Sharon Stone should have trusted her first “Basic Instinct” and left it alone, according to voters of the Razzies, which mocks the worst of Hollywood.

Actress Sharon Stone was a shady lady tonight at the world premiere of Basic Instinct 2.

Actress Sharon Stone has tipped former footballer Stan Collymore as a Hollywood star in the making.

Actress Sharon Stone will attend the world premiere of the Basic Instinct sequel in London tonight.

Hollywood actress Sharon Stone told today of her joy at adopting her new baby son and declared: “Single women can do it all.”

The Rolling Stones have given their blessing to a new film which claims finally to solve the mystery behind the death of guitarist Brian Jones.

WITH full-forward Ronan Clarke successfully coming through a fitness test last night, Armagh have named an unchanged team for Sunday’s Allianz National Football League final clash with Wexford at Croke Park.

State of Play (BBC) is a superior award-winning drama series.

Former England footballer Stan Collymore has won a role alongside actress Sharon Stone in the blockbuster sequel to Basic Instinct, it was confirmed today.

The Tipperary Under-21 hurling team to play Limerick in the Gaelic Grounds on Wednesday evening in the Munster semi-final has been announced with senior stars Diarmuid Fitzgerald, Shane Sweeney and Tony Scroope included in the line-up.

Comic Ricky Gervais chalked up a hat-trick of wins at the Bafta TV awards last night as the stars squelched their way down the red carpet amid torrential rain.

The biggest names in British television are gathering tonight for the Bafta TV awards.

Comic Ricky Gervais is in line for another Bafta after being nominated for the cream of British TV awards for a third year running.

THE OUTSTANDING success of the Special Olympic Summer Games will be marked at the annual Canon Hayes National Sports Awards in Tipperary on Friday night when a special award will be made to the leader of the organising team, Mary Davis, and Special Olympics Team Ireland.

THE Galway team to play Tipperary in Sunday’s All-Ireland MHC semi-final, shows three changes from the side that defeated Antrim last time out.

DEFENDING champions Tipperary have left a vacancy at corner forward for tonight’s Munster MHC semi-final against Limerick as they wait for fitness reports on two players who are in line for the position.

The following is the Tipperary minor hurling team to play Limerick Wednesday next in Thurles.

Kilkenny 3-15, Tipperary 1-7

Kilkenny 3-15 Tipperary 1-7

The Tipperary Minor Hurling selectors have remained faithful to the team which defeated Limerick in the Munster semi-final by naming the same 15 for Sunday¹s clash with Cork in the Munster Final in Pairc Ui Chaoimh.