Rory McIlroy couldn’t live the life Tiger Woods leads, we heard this week.

The proliferation of social media has led to a wave of digital influencers, whether it be through their blogs, Instagram, or Snapchat. Paula Burns finds out how they work.

I’m a well-paid OK-looking, 40-ish alpha male, yet I’m lonely. Every time I’m in bed with a woman I feel sick with nerves and can’t get it up. What do you suggest?

The Daily Show host Jon Stewart makes the leap from small to big screen as writer-director of Rosewater (15A), a political drama about the aftermath of the 2009 Iranian election. 

Check out our guide to the best of tonight's TV.

Team Montenotte and Killester will contest the Senior Women’s National Cup final following their respective semi-final wins over DCU Mercy and UL Huskies.

Orlando Bloom says he and Erica Packer are just friends rather than lovers.

When a couple were asked to look after their friends’ baby boy, they were riddled with nerves yet found a unique way to ease the anxiety.

Clint Eastwood has a new girlfriend.

Gardaí in Ballymun are appealing for the public's help in tracing 31-year-old Erica Phillips, missing from Ballymun since this morning.

Clint Eastwood's estranged wife reportedly still loves him.

The mother of a woman shot dead by police after a car chase that began when she tried to breach a barrier at the White House said her daughter suffered from post-natal depression.

The media mogul is expecting his first child with socialite Lauren Silverman and he said people will have to "wait and see" whether the couple get married in the future.

Simon Cowell is thinking of naming his baby Eric, after his father.

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s a messiah.

Bookended by two very different Thanksgiving celebrations, ‘Stuck In Love’ is a smartly scripted, semi-autobiographical dramedy about the aftermath of divorce on a wealthy family.

The 1984 version of 'Red Dawn', directed by John Milius, was a jingoistic action adventure of its time, for its time.

I’m a people person. If I wasn’t a performer, I’d be in sales.

Declan Burke has a look at this week's releases

STAFF who raised concerns about the ill-treatment of patients at a private nursing home — which has since lost its licence — were constructively dismissed, trade union SIPTU has claimed.

A Cork woman working in Tokyo has described how she thought her life was about to end as an 8.8 magnitude earthquake hit Japan overnight.

Think 'The Red Shoes' and you get the gist of this gripping, disturbing, dark and brilliantly executed psychological thriller set in the obsessive world of ballet … and think Oscar while you watch Portman give the outstanding performance of her career.

THE victim’s of the state fishery board’s single worst tragedy are to be remembered this weekend.

'Grey's Anatomy' star Brooke Smith has been axed from the hit US drama, putting an end to the show's first major lesbian plotline.

A woman and her boyfriend charged with killing six family members in a Christmas Eve massacre apologised to their victims before gunning them down, prosecutors said.

AN ESTRANGED daughter helped murder her parents, brother, sister-in-law and young niece and nephew in a Christmas Eve row, it emerged yesterday.

An estranged daughter helped murder her parents, brother, sister-in-law and young niece and nephew in a Christmas Eve row, it was alleged today.

A lawsuit brought against Paul McCartney by a German woman alleging he manipulated the results of a paternity test has been dropped.

Paul McCartney has found himself at the centre of a paternity investigation over claims he faked a DNA test more than 20 years ago.

MAUREEN HENNIGAR could barely read bank statements or signs in the shops three years ago — but yesterday she achieved a B-grade in Junior Certificate English.

Something’s Gotta Give stars Diane Keaton as Erica‚ a successful playwright stuck in her Hampton beach house playing nurse to Harry (Jack Nicholson).

THE parents of the 18-year-old Limerick victim at the centre of the collapsed murder trial yesterday spoke for the first time of how their lives were shattered when their son was stabbed to death on August 28, 2001.

THE parents of the 18-year-old Limerick victim at the centre of the collapsed murder trial yesterday spoke for the first time of how their lives were shattered when their son was stabbed to death on August 28, 2001.

If you were a young man in the Peace Corps assigned to Afghanistan under the Taliban, what would you miss most? Razor blades? Hardly. Music? Maybe for some. The answer is pretty obvious. Movies. Could you do without seeing a single film for 24 months? I doubt it. You’d probably come back in a straitjacket, screaming in agony.

WALLABY captain George Gregan will return to Britain for Saturday’s rugby test against England after rushing home for the birth of his daughter, Charlie, the Australian Rugby Union said yesterday.

Australia captain George Gregan will head back to England for Saturday’s Twickenham Test after rushing home for the birth of his daughter.

Ireland produced one of the greatest displays in their history to stun world champions Australia at a rain-lashed Lansdowne Road in Dublin today.

GEORGE GREGAN is ready to fly to and from Australia in a matter of days so he can witness the birth of his second child and return in time to lead the side at Twickenham against England next Saturday.

A SEVEN-YEAR-OLD girl escaped kidnappers in Philadelphia by chewing through the tape binding her arms and legs, smashing a window and calling children playing nearby to help her, police said.

Two organisers of a French helicopter rally in which a British father and daughter died were questioned by police for leaving the scene of an accident, the British Foreign Office said today.