With the passing of the torch to a new generation, Caomhan Keane says it’s his turn in the kitchen

Kya deLongchamps tires of sophisticated mid-century faking, and throws her sombrero at a rich ethnic interiors fiesta with some playful results.

From sinister to sick, the most shocking promotional campaigns of the last century were often racist, crude, rude and downright dangerous, Richard Fitzpatrick checks out Charles Saatchi’s new book.

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As experts warn that sitting is the new smoking, sedentary worker, Michelle Murphy looks at what she can do to reverse the health decline that sitting all day triggers.

It’s almost time to bid a final farewell to the 1960s-set show. But first, from suave suits to subtle storylines to swift drinks, Keeley Bolger looks at what made it so special

USA: A cow in Northeast Texas has apparently defied great odds and given birth to four calves that have been named Eeny, Meeny, Miny, and Moo.

BRITAIN: A man who pocketed £26,000 (€36,000) in disability benefits while winning golf tournaments and playing off a handicap of six has been jailed for six months.

SUNDAY: One Ocean: No Limits (RTÉ One, 8pm)

As her role as Don Draper’s wife winds down, Jessie Paré’s career continues with a film that gets its premiere in Cork tomorrow, writes Marjorie Brennan.

Bjork, Christy Moore, and Derek Jarman will all feature in this year’s Cork Film Festival in a typically eclectic programme of screenings that will appeal to movie buffs and mainstream audiences alike.

Ad companies are already devising ways to sell their wares on the latest new-fangled, sci-fi consumer must-have — wearable technology. Brian Womack reports.

Cindy Crawford was every inch the supermodel at 48 on the red carpet for the premiere of Return to Zero in Hollywood.

Jon Hamm admits working on porn movies was "soul-crushing".

As Don Draper makes his return this week, John Daly picks TV’s most memorable characters, many of them so influential, we forget they never actually lived.

Jon Hamm is "confused" by his "silly" sex symbol status.

Having heard fellow columnist Derval O’Rourke sing the praises of David Epstein’s The Sports Gene, nothing would do me but to track the man down for a chat, and we made contact last week.

Mad Men fans are gearing up for the final series — but how will it end for Don Draper? John Daly looks back at other iconic TV show finales.

Kya deLongchamps puts four leading examples of desktop lamps under the spotlight.

Some of the most memorable moments from what was a momentous year on television.

Highlights include the finales of Homeland and Mad Men, and the new dating show My Best Shot

IT’S the end of another long day on set and Jon Hamm sounds a little croaky. But while the hours might be proving arduous for the actor, his schedule’s nothing compared to that of his co-star Daniel Radcliffe.

Call it the Don Draper effect, but tweeds and classic cuts are the key menswear looks of the season. Here are the essential pieces to invest in this winter.

YOU spend eight hours a day in the same office, meeting in the corridors, at the photocopier, in the coffee dock.

Picture the scene: A group of workers gather for a staff meeting.

A survey suggests the way fathers are portrayed in popular culture may be eroding their status as role models — so maybe it’s apt that, as I begin writing this piece, I am drinking a yoghurt from the carton because I couldn’t be bothered trying to find a spoon.

JANE Maas, one of the female pioneers of the advertising industry on New York’s Madison Avenue, is happy to be compared to Peggy Olson, the character from Mad Men, the 1960s-based American TV series about advertising, sex, booze and chain-smoking.

People tend to be surprised when they find out I spent four years doing a degree in communication, advertising and marketing.

Pic 1: Joshua Jackson has come a long way since the fashion faux pas of his Dawson’s Creek days.

From work to weddings, weekends to Saturday nights, there’s a style to suit every occasion. Stylist Niamh O’Rourke reveals the coolest looks for A/W 2012.

MUSIC NEWS: Lock up your children! David Guetta, and Example headline tonight’s dance event in Marlay Park, Dublin, and as we predicted in the wake of the Swedish House Mafia trouble, the powers that be are queuing up to get tough with those awful young people.

SATURDAY

PLAYWRIGHT and novelist Belinda McKeon says she has learned most about health from her parents who brought her up on the family farm in Co Longford.

IT’S a rainy morning in Los Angeles, and Elisabeth Moss, who plays Peggy Olson in the television series Mad Men, is standing outside the stage door smoking.

Elisabeth Moss was attracted to 'Mad Men' because of her character's "delicious complications".

THE BIG four fashion weeks may have drawn to a close but a new season of sartorial eye-candy is only a wiggle dress away. With the fifth series of ABC’s Mad Men due to air on March 27, fans of the popular television series are already gearing up for Saturday nights in with Don, Betty and Joan.

They say Jane Maas is like Peggy Olson, the secretary-turned-copywriter from the television series Mad Men.

WHEN it comes to the workplace, there’s never been a more competitive time.

'Mad Men' bosses are planning to set the programme's finale in 2011.

SO what’s your favourite slogan of the presidential campaign?

FOR Don Draper, advertising is based on one thing: happiness.