Former NY Met Dwight Gooden has denied his former baseball compadre Darryl Strawberry’s accusation that he is “a complete junkie-addict ,” claiming his former Met team-mate is taking it personally that Gooden couldn’t make a scheduled public appearance with Strawberry last week.

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Telltale's upcoming Back to the Future: The Game - 30th Anniversary Edition will be released on October 16th. We feel it's a missed opportunity.

Here's what's on the box tonight.

Lexus released a new video for its hoverboard, showing it in action and revealing that it will be revealed in full on August 5th.

by Thomas Pynchon

Inherent Vice ***

YOU spend a couple of hours with a family that achieves to such an incredibly high degree and the expectation is that you emerge with an insight.

Some might call it cruel but at least Paddy O’Rourke can laugh about it now.

Irish drivers are well used to being stuck in the middle of traffic jams.

IT’S 6.30pm, and I am sitting at the table in my friend’s kitchen, trying to ignore Doc, her newish rescue dog, the size of a wart-hog, who’s eyeballing me from across the room.

E.L. Doctorow

This year has proven another excellent year for Irish animation company Brown Bag Studios.

Doc magic

Sunday is Dr Con Murphy’s 25th All-Ireland final with Cork. Medic, psychologist, confidante, wise-cracker: the West Cork man has a best-selling memoir on his hands — if he ever decides to write it.

Joe Schmidt may be only maintaining a watching brief on the North American tour, but no-one should mistake that for not being busy. It seems like he’s going to scan the globe for a forwards coach, while the other vacant position in a reconfigured Irish backroom team would be a skills/kicking coach.

Two Irish-made children’s animation series have been nominated for Emmy awards.

As with seemingly every other tentpole release to hit the multiplex this summer, the action thriller 'Cowboys & Aliens' is based on a comic book – albeit a lesser-known one.

Daragh O Conchúir: “With the World Cup in mind, it’s not going very well for Ireland at the moment is it?”

WEXFORD’S footballers may have achieved one major breakthrough at Croke Park yesterday but their hurling counterparts proved to be in no mood to accommodate a second such romantic script.

NO member of the Boston Celtics enjoyed their 17th championship more than Paul Pierce.

YESTERDAY morning, if you were of a gambling bent, you could have had 9/4 that Kilkenny’s Henry Shefflin would outscore Wexford on his own in this All-Ireland semi-final.

David 'Doc' O'Connor has been included in the Wexford team for Sunday's All-Ireland SHC semi-final against Kilkenny (Croke Park, throw-in 2pm) in the only change manager John Meyler has made to the side that saw off Tipperary last weekend.

YOU can show something for what it is, you can show something for what it isn't.

HE’S 27 and controls one of the biggest drugs networks in the country.

A hired hit man has been jailed for life at the Central Criminal Court after pleading guilty to the murder of a night club bouncer, who was shot in the head in front of his wife outside their Limerick home.

IN the end the only politician named during the funeral homily of Sean Doherty was Charlie Haughey.

Former Scotland manager Tommy Docherty has urged Walter Smith to call him if he needs any help assessing new talent.

A murder accused who admitted to beating a man with a hurley regretted not robbing money from the man as he lay dying, a witness alleged at the Central Criminal court today.

Wexford hurling boss John Conran has opted to start David 'Doc' O'Connor in attack for Sunday's NFL tie with Laois at O'Moore Park.

OAKFRONT BERRY can take advantage of a drop in class in the featured Cummins Sports Stakes at Curraheen Park tonight.

David 'Doc' O'Connor has been ordered to sit out tomorrow night's Div 1B floodlit clash with Cork in Pairc Ui Rinn.

ONE could almost visualise how Liam Griffin would have prepared the Wexford hurlers for today’s Guinness All-Ireland hurling semi-final replay against Cork.

Two women tourists on a weekend break in Dublin suffered severe facial injuries when they were attacked in the city centre last night, gardaí said.

Darren Clarke was today hoping to recapture the form which saw him leading the US Masters after the delayed opening round in Augusta.

TONIGHT I’m going for a drink and a bite to eat with Tony O’Reilly. Hang on, I’ll rephrase. Tonight I will be in a hotel room with 500 other people — and one of them will be AJF O’Reilly.