Walt Disney, one of cinema’s great innovators and visionaries, famously observed that you should never pander to the whims of your audience.

I’M INTERESTED in the duality of people, says Rooney Mara, of her predilection for caliginous characters.

Ireland’s hopes of a first Women’s Home International victory since 2004 were dealt a hammer blow on the opening day as the hosts were trounced 9-0 by England at Cork Golf Club.

England’s Emily Taylor won the Irish Women’s Open Amateur Strokeplay by three strokes from Ireland’s Mary Dowling (New Ross) and Gillian O’Leary (Cork) at The Island Golf Club yesterday.