Voting has begun as campaigners bid to make Ireland the first country to introduce gay marriage by popular vote, Paul O’Connell is set to say farewell to Thomond Park after tomorrow’s game, Six officers have been charged with the death of Freddie Gray in Baltimore and Dwayne ’The Rock’ Johnson has officiated at a surpise wedding. Just some of the latest and most read stories on irishexaminer.com.

If you’ve seen the Screen Junkies YouTube channel, you’ll know that Nick Mundy is one of Dwayne ’The Rock’ Johnson’s biggest fans.

Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson is a number of things: a professional wrestler, an action superstar, and now you can add marriage officiant to the list.

Dwayne Johnson's mother and cousin have been in a car crash after being hit by a drunk driver.

Paul Walker's co-stars are "too distraught" to return to work on the 'Fast & Furious 7' this week in the wake of his death.

Jay-Z and his partners are being sued for $7 million.

Susan Sarandon is set to star in 'Snitch'.

SET AT the height of the Cold War, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (15A) is something of a throwback to another era entirely, that era being the mid-1970s, when a particular kind of paranoid thriller reigned supreme.

Normally a movie that follows a pizza boy and his loud-mouthed compadre as they do battle with two miscreants whose only ambitions are to be wildly wealthy and blow things up would garner little more than an exasperated sigh.

Dwayne Johnson has been offered the titular role in 'Goliath'.

Dwayne Johnson is in talks to star in 'G.I. Joe: Cobra Strikes'.

James Hook will make his second start at fly-half in this season’s RBS 6 Nations Championship when Wales face Ireland on Saturday.

A DRIVER using a mobile phone smashed into a tree and died at the scene, an inquest heard yesterday.

A CASE of wrongful death and negligence is being taken against the state and gardaí by the surviving partner and three children of Dwayne Foster.

AN overnight text from his brother, Freddie, coach to the Munster Branch, proved invaluable as Dwayne Twomey fashioned an unlikely win for Bandon over Co Sligo in yesterday’s semi-final of the Bulmers Irish Senior Cup at Castlebar.

Wales head coach Warren Gatland looks set to name Sale scrum-half Dwayne Peel in his matchday 22 for the RBS 6 Nations showdown with France at the Millennium Stadium on Friday.

GEORDAN MURPHY has, as expected, been drafted into the Ireland squad to replace Rob Kearney ahead of Saturday’s Six Nations clash with England.

A security guard accused of killing his sister, her husband and six others had a history of mental problems and feared his sister wanted to kick him out of the home they shared, relatives and others said.

Bomb squad police were detonating a huge explosives haul today at the home of a man accused of shooting dead eight people in Virginia's worst mass killing incident since 2007.

Wales will pile the pressure on England manager Martin Johnson if they win next month’s RBS 6 Nations showdown at Twickenham.

Alexandra Burke only trusts homosexual men.

Wales will be without two British and Irish Lions scrum-halves for their opening autumn Test against New Zealand on November 7.

ENGLAND legend, Dean Richards, believes Ronan O’Gara should be the Lions test-match out-half against South Africa this summer, describing the Munster and Ireland No 10 as someone who can deliver in high pressure situations.

Neil Jenkins believes Wales scrum-half Dwayne Peel will be “absolutely gutted” if he is ruled out of Saturday’s RBS 6 Nations clash against Italy.

Wales have lost three more of their Grand Slam stars for next month’s tour of South Africa.

Warren Gatland believes his Wales Grand Slam captain Ryan Jones is in pole position to become the next British and Irish Lions skipper.

Wales scrum-half Dwayne Peel has asked Warren Gatland for permission to play for his club Llanelli Scarlets against Ulster at Ravenhill on Friday night.

Stephen Jones and Dwayne Peel will start in the half-backs against Italy a week on Saturday after Wales head coach Warren Gatland made six changes to the side that beat Scotland.

EXPERIENCED half-back pair Stephen Jones and Dwayne Peel are in line to start against Italy a week on Saturday after coming off the bench to guide Wales to victory over Scotland.

WALES scrumhalf Mike Phillips is ready to unleash two years of pent-up frustration after being selected ahead of arch-rival Dwayne Peel for the first time in his career.

Warren Gatland has named a record 13 Ospreys in the Wales starting line-up to face England in Saturday's RBS 6 Nations Championship clash at Twickenham.

A SOLICITOR representing the man believed to have murdered a young mother of a two-year-old boy hit out at the delay in proceeding with his inquest.

THE picturesque backdrop of Saundersfoot on Wales’s west coast, a little off the beaten track but one much travelled by Munster supporters over the years, provided the stunning backdrop to Llanelli’s press day at the St Bride’s hotel yesterday.

Dwayne Peel will become the youngest Wales player to reach 50 caps when he runs out against Scotland at Murrayfield on Saturday.

EMOTIONS ran high during Dwayne Foster’s funeral mass at Oliver Plunkett Church in Finglas, Dublin, yesterday.

Wales winger Mark Jones is a serious injury doubt ahead of Saturday’s RBS Six Nations Championship clash with France at the Millennium Stadium.

THE Irish camp should have penned a Thank You card to the entire Welsh squad. Two weeks ago it would have been impossible to imagine a scenario for this game where all the heat would be on Wales and not Ireland.

LIONS scrum-half Dwayne Peel has ended weeks of speculation by committing himself to Llanelli Scarlets until the end of the 2007-2008 season.

British singer Ms Dynamite has split from fiance Dwayne Seaforth, and he has moved out of her London home.

R&B star Ms Dynamite has no regrets about falling pregnant shortly after breaking into the bigtime, because she needed a break from the pressures of the music industry.

Dwayne Peel admits it will be “a dream come true” when he runs out for the Lions against New Zealand on Saturday.

BEAUTY, as they say, is in the eye of the beholder and one man’s “incredibly exciting back division” is another’s team of robots.

Ireland flanker Simon Easterby is relishing the prospect of facing club colleague Dwayne Peel in tomorrow’s RBS 6 Nations clash with Wales.

Italy veteran Alessandro Troncon has backed Wales scrum-half Dwayne Peel to claim a place on the Lions tour to New Zealand.