Star Wars: The Force Awakens (12A) opens 30 years on from the events of Return of the Jedi (1983), with the rebels, led by General Leia (Carrie Fisher), hard-pressed by the evil First Order, led by Supreme Leader Snoke (Andy Serkis), Kylo Ren (Adam Driver) and General Hux (Domhnall Gleeson). 

How can we take to the streets to fight for water charges but not to support Áras Attracta residents, asks Fergus Finlay.

Tin by Chris Judge

LOUISE O’NEILL

Au pairs don’t have to be young — as the success of a ‘granny’ agency shows.

WHEN is sex illegal? That is, normal, consensual sex between adults? Sex that is an act of love, as part of a loving relationship? Never, I thought.

I CAN still remember the day I met Izzie. Why wouldn’t I — it was my birthday. My 48th birthday to be exact, and Izzie was the first guest to arrive for the celebrations.

WE celebrated Mandy’s 40th birthday on Sunday.

LULU’S been belting out hits for five decades and “reinvented” herself to stay in the spotlight.

Suzanne Joinson

Tuesday’s Gone

MY wife and I went to a funeral last week.

YOU could spend your life in despair, couldn’t you? Certainly the papers and the news this past week would encourage nothing but negative thoughts.

MY DAUGHTER comes into the kitchen from the sitting room, where she’s been watching Snog, Marry, Avoid, and asks me why there are so few women politicians.

Actress Salma Hayek has said Antonio Banderas saved her career three times.

INCLUSION Ireland is 50 years old this year.

Freida Pinto doesn't want to star in a movie with Dev Patel again.

MY missus and I fell out over the choice of interior.

'Slumdog Millionaire' actors Dev Patel and Freida Pinto have fuelled speculation they are dating - by shopping for jewellery together on Valentine's Day.

HOW could you not fall in love with a country like China that labours massively to make foreign visitors welcome after centuries of isolation?

ANNA Karin Kingston once locked her son in the boot of the car. He had gone wild in the supermarket, damaging the trolleys and threatening mayhem throughout the shop. But the shopping had to be done, so she dragged him, kicking and screaming, out to the car park.

IN the early 1990s, a long time ago, two women decided to pay a visit to Trinity College in Dublin.

IRELAND'S longest-surviving Olympian, George Carpenter, died at the weekend, aged 96.

SERVICES for people with intellectual disabilities have hit crisis point, it was claimed yesterday.

Former Springbok rugby star Vleis Visagie who accidentally shot dead his teenage daughter thinking she was a car thief is not to face charges.

The presenter of a UK radio gardening programme who unwittingly gave a caller advice on how to grow cannabis today apologised for the gaffe.

Movie star Edward Norton isn’t wasting anytime getting over his split with beautiful "Frieda" star Salma Hayek.

“JUST take her home. She’ll never amount to much, but she shouldn’t cause you too much trouble either.”

NEW Labour leader Pat Rabbitte has appointed Fergus Finlay to be his key adviser.

Pop star Lulu’s son Jordan Frieda was at Eton with Prince William and this week he plays the Royal heir in a US TV film.

Lulu’s son Jordan Frieda has landed a role playing Prince William in a new movie to be filmed in Ireland and the US, it emerged today.