Through accident and design, Spielberg couldn’t have timed The Post better, writes Shilpa Ginatra

Hugh Hefner drew the ire of Christian conservatives and radical feminists alike, but many women have also said positive things about the late Playboy publisher, writes TP O’Mahony.

GUI President-elect John Moloughney is backing Thurles Golf Club to keep up the high standards of the AIG Cups and Shields finals when they are staged at the Tipperary club in 2018.

The degree was an opportunity for Cowen to make a speech. A lengthy speech. Fifty minutes, writes Terry Prone

Here are the top three films you don’t want to miss this week, writes Declan Burke.

BY any standards, US president Donald Trump’s press conference last Thursday was unhinged. 

Ryle Dwyer looks back 30 years to Garret Fitzgerald’s St Patrick’s Day State visit to the White House, and its impact on the Northern peace process

In a new book Larry Tye, former reporter at The Boston Globe, explores Bobby Kennedy's political and personal transformation and asks what lessons it provides for an equally divided modern day America. In this exclusive excerpt, Tye suggests Bobby's metamorphosis mirrored that which the US was undergoing as it moved from the 1950s self-satisfied era of Eisenhower to the tumultuous 1960s.

Donald Trump’s claim that former US president Bill Clinton was ‘the worst abuser of women in the history of politics’ shows just how politically ignorant he is, says historian Ryle Dwyer.       

Eddie Hobbs looks at Ireland’s powerful, unelected forces who control decision-making, upholding the status quo, and protecting their own interests at the expense of the general public, social progress, and the effective functioning of democracy

 

Richard Nixon had a great influence and his impact is still apparent in much of US public life, says Stanley Kutler.

The well-touted Father Frost swooped late to deny Frozen Lake in the Ticket Sales Online @corkracecourse.ie Maiden in Cork last night, completing a double for Aidan and Joseph O’Brien.

We as a polity are not big on evidence-based policy. We rather form an opinion, then seek evidence for it, or better yet, stay silent. This leads to sub-optimal decision making, to put it mildly, writes Brian Lucey.

ON the face of it, I’m all set for Christmas. But not really.

Letters from John Lennon, Marilyn Monroe and Dwight Eisenhower are among hundreds of historical documents being offered in an online auction.

Robin Williams is to play Dwight Eisenhower in new movie 'The Butler'.

Are your taxes too high? When Gallup asked that question in April, tax month in the US, 46% said they were.

SO, the Taoiseach believes voters will not want to be “bribed” into backing the Yes campaign in the EU fiscal compact referendum — sorry, Enda, but have you ever met the Irish people?

TODAY is a big day in Washington DC, with a momentous collision of giants set to unfold on a golf course in the American capital. Except we’re not talking about Congressional Country Club and the 111th US Open.

Osama bin Laden’s “demise should be welcomed by all who believe in peace with human dignity,” President Obama stressed on Sunday night.

THE family of a 90-year-old Second World War veteran, who died after being violently robbed in his home, appealed for help yesterday to catch his killer.

WINSTON Churchill was accused of covering up a close encounter between an RAF aircraft and a UFO during the Second World War.

THERE’S a prison in the Peter and Paul Fortress in St Petersburg.

BACK in the first week in January four prominent American political figures raised the need for the abolition of nuclear weapons. The issue was followed up this week in an article by Mikhail Gorbachev calling for urgent action.

THIS week marked the 42nd anniversary of the assassination of John F Kennedy.

Hollywood actor Alec Baldwin has launched a scathing attack on US President George W Bush's Republican Party, branding right-wing politicians "self-serving scoundrels".

Up to 100,000 people, including Hollywood stars Martin Sheen and Dennis Hopper, are converging on the birthplace of James Dean today for a festival marking the 50th anniversary of the screen idol’s death.

YESTERDAY’S pictures and headlines about the royal wedding were relatively benign, in sharp contrast to those of the day before.

LAST year people were taking it for granted that George W Bush would be re-elected this November, but the lessons of history would suggest that it may not be so easy. Indeed public opinion polls indicate that he has an uphill battle.

MOST people who are old enough remember where they were this day 40 years ago. I was heading for Des Moines, Iowa, when a couple of women got on the bus.

Bill Clinton's former lover Gennifer Flowers could soon be starring in Boobs! The World According to Ruth Wallis, the off-Broadway musical that boasts a love song titled Bill.

Some of the one-liners over the years which helped to make Bob Hope the incomparable comic that he was:

THE Americans are promising democracy in Iraq, but at the same time they are saying that they are not going to allow a fundamentalist regime come to power there.

ONE of the odd facts of life, which for obvious reasons gets left out of management courses, is that when a number of women work closely together, over a period of time their menstrual cycles tend to coincide.

Pop Idol Will Young and former Spice Girl Emma Bunton won £8,000 (€12,843) for charity in a Christmas Day celebrity edition of the UK version of Who Wants To Be a Millionaire?.