Open gardens in aid of Marymount Hospice this week includes Maurice and Gertie O’Donoghue’s garden at Carrignavar on today and tomorrow, June 28 from 2pm to 6pm and the Fitzgerald garden, The Rectory, Templebreedy, Crosshaven on July 5 from 2pm to 6pm.

The lines "Bond, James Bond" and "He's not the Messiah. He's a very naughty boy" feature in a shortlist of favourite film quotes.

* The award-winning garden of Gertie and Maurice O’Donoghue at Dromboy, Carrignavar, will open this Saturday and Sunday from 2pm to 6pm in aid of the Friends of Marymount.

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HE was a courageous editor, ultra-competitive and above all had a commitment to core values.

Director Steven Spielberg has ruled out plans to make a sequel to kids' movie classic 'ET', insisting it's "a closed story".

A RURAL community which nestles on the flatlands by the southern shore of the Shannon Estuary yesterday gathered to mark the life of one of their own who conquered the highest reaches on earth.

Tom Selleck's dream of becoming a cattle rancher has hit a setback - he can't kill his cows and they're too fat for sex.

NOTHING annoys Gertie Shields more than the unwritten rule that some things should remain unspoken.

LITTLE Roise O’Donnell, aged nine months, joined her family to cheer Dad as he set off yesterday to swim Ireland.

Jersey Girl stars Ben Affleck as Ollie Trinke, a New York PR guru whose wife, Gertrude (Jennifer Lopez), dies giving birth to their daughter Gertie (Racquel Castro).

PADDY O'Leary and his wife Gertie tried to be brave as objects bobbed about in nearly two feet of water in their ruined home on Botanic Avenue, Drumcondra. They have lived there for the past 35 years.