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Lupita Nyong’o stopped by to Sesame Street for a chat with her friend Elmo. What they chatted about was beautiful.

As crime boss Nidge in Love/Hate, Tom Vaughan Lawlor hasn’t flinched from dispatching his enemies, and soon he’ll be playing another character who knows where the bodies are buried.

Arial, Times New Roman ... and now the ‘Hugo Chavez’ font

There's something about Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen that makes them pure internet gold.

Love/Hate star Laurence Kinlan has revealed that every actor on the hit show will be rifling through scripts for the eagerly-anticipated fifth series, to check if they are getting killed off.

Lots of children will have received computers or phones this Christmas. So, how do you choose appropriate apps for them? Aoife Rigney offers her top 20.

Surprised it took this long to be honest.

WHAT’S the Irish for ‘D’oh!’, or ‘hey, Bert,’ or ‘You bastards. You killed Kenny’?

The life of Charles Haughey, the politician so many people love to hate, is to be dramatised starring actors from the country’s latest hit crime drama.

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When big-name music acts appear on kids' TV shows, things don't always go to plan.

A man who initially recanted sex abuse allegations against the former puppeteer of the Sesame Street character Elmo has sued him, alleging the entertainer lured him into drug-fuelled sex when he was 16.

Another man is suing the former Elmo puppeteer who resigned amid sex abuse allegations, claiming the voice actor befriended him in Miami and promised to be a father figure before flying the teenager to New York to have sex with him.

A man has sued a former Sesame Street puppeteer who resigned amid sex abuse allegations, saying the actor met him a dozen years ago after trawling gay telephone chat lines for underage boys for sex.

A man has sued a former Elmo puppeteer who resigned amid sex abuse allegations, saying the voice actor met him in New York a dozen years ago after trolling gay telephone chat lines seeking underage boys for sex.

Sesame Street’s Elmo puppeteer Kevin Clash has resigned from the show in the wake of allegations that he had sex with an under-aged youth.

A man who accused Elmo puppeteer Kevin Clash of having sex with him when he was a teenage boy has recanted his story.

A man who accused Elmo puppeteer Kevin Clash of having sex with him when he was a teenage boy has recanted his story.

The puppeteer who operates Elmo on Sesame Street is taking a break from the show amid rumours that he had had a relationship with a 16-year-old boy.

The actor who operates the Elmo puppet in children’s favourite Sesame Street is taking a break from the show in the wake of allegations that he had a relationship with a 16-year-old boy.

The actor who operates the Elmo puppet in children’s favourite Sesame Street is taking a break from the show in the wake of allegations that he had a relationship with a 16-year-old boy.

Cork Opera House has launched its autumn and winter season, an eclectic mix of musical and theatrical events as the theatre seeks to make good on the success of its summer musical, The Sound of Music.

Love hurts, though not too badly, in Nicholas Stoller’s romantic comedy about a doe-eyed couple whose rose-tinted dreams of marital bliss are undone by the pressures of everyday life.

THOUGH he is not really a Muppet in the pejorative sense of the word, Enda Kenny would make a good Sesame Street character.

When you start arguing with yourself as to whether the Incredible Hulk’s motivations are entirely in character, it’s all over: the Dark Side has won.

Meryl Streep may have her next film assignment and Neil Diamond thanked the namesake of his famous tune 'Sweet Caroline' as they joined other luminaries from Broadway, jazz and classical music to receive the Kennedy Centre Honours.

THERE’S nothing like seeing the Muppets in real life, because you’re stunned.

Sarah Michelle Gellar would only reprise her role as Buffy Summers for ‘Sesame Street’.

JUST 55 more sleeps until Christmas, so little wonder that more than 10,000 people are expected to attend the Toy Show Experience in Dublin this weekend.

PUPPET decapitations, Irish-dancing electro music, hurling royalty and a bizarre but unnervingly catchy “banana song”.

Katy Perry is to guest star in ‘The Simpsons’, it has emerged.

Katy Perry is surprised her appearance on ‘Sesame Street’ has been axed.

AN APPEARANCE by US singer Katy Perry on children’s TV show Sesame Street has been pulled after bosses decided she was showing too much cleavage.

An appearance by US singer Katy Perry on children’s TV show 'Sesame Street' has been pulled after bosses decided she was showing too much cleavage.

Ricky Gervais is to appear in long-running US children’s favourite Sesame Street, it was announced today.

The third major recall by Mattel of lead-tainted Chinese toys has left the world’s largest toymaker fighting to maintain its reputation with the crucial holiday season fast approaching.

Chinese toy inspectors set fire to Elmo’s buggy white eyes, tugged on Dora the Explorer’s arms and scraped off paint from plastic pieces of a “Barbie hot tub party bus” kit in front of foreign journalists, in a bid to repair the damage caused by the worldwide toy recalls.

Mattel, battered by two high-profile recalls this summer, will announce tomorrow the recall of a third batch of Chinese-made toys because they may contain excessive amounts of lead paint.

Mattel has extended its worldwide recalls of Chinese-made toys to more than 18.6 million, including popular Barbie and Polly Pocket, and warned that more could be ordered off store shelves because of lead paint and tiny magnets that could be swallowed.

US toy-maker Fisher-Price is recalling 83 types of Chinese-made toys over concerns about excessive amounts of lead in their paint.

Condoleezza Rice is making her first visit as US Secretary of State to the world’s most populous Muslim nation today amid tight security.

Movie star Julianne Moore turned her recent visit to Sesame Street into a family affair - by insisting her daughter Liv have a starring role in the show.