Who needs breakfast in bed? The very brave Pat Fitzpatrick explains why he thinks Mother’s Day should be abandoned altogether. 

Velvin Lamont, the self-proclaimed Son of Love from Cork, made it though to the next round of the X Factor auditions that kicked off in Croke Park in Dublin yesterday.

Criminal gangs are earning profits equal to almost a thousand times the fines imposed on smugglers by the courts, according to the tobacco industry.

Theatre: Desolate Heaven

Everyman, Cork

The Inquiry is one of the gems from this year’s documentary strand at the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival; although, technically, it’s a drama written from documentary evidence, as its screenplay is threaded with newspaper cuttings and British parliamentary reports.

AFTER a recent gig in Japan Harry Styles of boy band One Direction is reported to have said that the band “could be as big as The Beatles”.

A woman met her natural mother every day for years without knowing they were related.

As her 28th novel is published, saga queen Barbara Taylor Bradford talks to Hannah Stephenson about the love of her life, her two miscarriages, and her work ethic

Coronation Street favourite Betty Driver has died at the age of 91.

A British multi-millionaire rabbi who was convicted of possessing cocaine that he took at debauched parties was spared jail today.

A CORONER warned of the dangers of using escalators yesterday after hearing how a simple stumble led to the tragic death of an elderly man.

THE Christy Roche-trained Cool Running, who got off the mark over fences at Punchestown earlier in the month, outclassed his rivals in the Seamus Weldon Novice Chase at Killarney last night.

Tom Jones has made a staggering $4m (€5.9m) profit, by selling a California mansion he bought as a holiday home for his parents.

DONNACHA O’MAHONY (East Cork) rolled back the years to reclaim the Cork senior cross-country championship title while Freda Davoren (UCC AC) ran her first cross-country race in almost two years to claim her first county title at Inchigeela yesterday, when East Cork eventually won an enthralling team contest with their North Cork rivals.

FREDA DAVOREN relaunched her athletics career in style when she finished third behind Kelly Holmes, the Commonwealth 1,500m champion, and Helen Clitheroe in the Event Scotland Mile at Balmoral.

TIFFS and spats between golfing superstars like Harrington and Goosen are nothing new. Sometimes, in fact, they can go a little further than that, as Christy O’Connor Senior admits in a particularly revealing chapter in his autobiography.