Around 30,000 Mayo fans are expected to be inside Croke Park when Sunday’s All- Ireland SFC final gets underway. Thousands more will be watching and listening around the world, hoping and praying the Westerners beat Dublin and end Mayo’s 65 year wait for fame and glory.

Oscar winner Marion Cotillard is pregnant.

A French father and son sailing team were rescued today after a freak wave knocked them overboard as they raced to the notorious Fastnet rock.

DO YOU remember the phrase ‘Ich bin ein Berliner?’ Most people of my generation do because it was uttered by John F Kennedy a day or two after he completed his famous visit to Ireland in 1963.

French actor Gerard Depardieu's son Guillaume has slammed his father after the French star severed ties with him recently.

French film star Gerard Depardieu says he has cut off all contact with his troubled actor son Guillaume who was convicted this week of threatening a man with a gun.

Arsenal goalkeeper Stuart Taylor has told boss Arsene Wenger he will step into the breach after David Seaman was injured in the Gunners’ disappointing 1-1 home draw with Ajax.

ARSENAL boss Arsene Wenger declared he had a “perfect squad” after putting the finishing touch to his title bid by signing experienced French keeper Guillaume Warmuz.

Goalkeeper Guillaume Warmuz has signed a short-term contract at Arsenal to keep him at Highbury until the end of the season.

European government bonds pushed lower ahead of the much-awaited testimony by Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan before a US Senate Committee later today, which could provide further clues about the state of the US economy and US interest rates, dealers said.