“Do they think we are stupid?”

Studio Ghibli, Bourne, and a Cilla Black tribute are among the gems on TV tonight

A copyright suit between Walt Disney and a California resident has been settled, according to a June 24 court filing.

Disney’s animated tale of two princess sisters is the fifth- highest grossing film ever. With parents fighting in shops for its spin-off dolls, how did it become an object of obsession, asks Ed Power

The arrogance, ineptitude, and maladministration in Irish Water puts me in mind of Hans Christian Andersen’s parable The Emperor’s New Clothes

Polish artist Wilhelm Sasnal’s ‘Take Me To The Other Side’ is the latest exhibition at Lismore Castle Arts, the gallery in the west wing of William Burlington’s Co Waterford home.

In the opening weeks of 2008, Mary McAleese travelled to Limerick to give a grand regeneration plan her presidential seal of approval.

Big value in school pens

Former Limerick mayor John Gilligan has welcomed a planned initiative by the International Federation for Human Rights to seek fundamental rights for deprived parts of the city.

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Such are the peculiarities of footballing hysteria that a series of subtle, successfully-executed dives will bring about nothing like the binge of handwringing a bunch of botched, largely fruitless ones will.

The Pet Shop Boys are heading in a new musical direction - they are composing a stage ballet.

ONE of only six Catholic churches allowed to hold Mass in penal times is to undergo a €1 million restoration to save its historic windows.

One of only six Catholic churches allowed to hold Mass in penal times is to undergo a 1 million euro restoration to save its historic windows.

Vandals have covered Copenhagen's famed Little Mermaid statue with pink paint, tourists who visited the landmark said today.

Elvis Costello will take the stage in Copenhagen this weekend for the premiere of his opera The Secret Arias, which is based on Danish fairy tale writer Hans Christian Andersen’s impossible romance with a Swedish soprano.

SOME years ago, in a widely applauded move, Waterford county council purchased the CBS monastery in Lismore for use as a regional office.

WATERFORD took on a nautical look over the weekend as thousands of people turned out for the Hullabaloo Children’s Festival, in its fifth year.

CHILDREN’S festival organisers in Waterford will be finding out who’s nautical and who’s nice over the coming days as the fifth annual Hullabaloo Festival kicks into action.

Thousands of people lined the cobblestone streets of fairy tale writer Hans Christian Andersen’s birth town today to welcome royals and celebrities marking the 200th birthday of Denmark’s most beloved and famous author.

British actor Roger Moore and American crooner and civil rights promoter Harry Belafonte followed in the footsteps of fairy tale writer Hans Christian Andersen.

FAIRYTALES are supposed to be the province of Hans Christian Andersen, but the Cheltenham Festival once again proved its ability yesterday to weave the most incredible stories together when Kicking King won the Gold Cup for Ireland.

AUSTRALIAN Mary Donaldson married Danish Crown Prince Frederik yesterday in a fairytale wedding out of any of the stories written by Hans Christian Andersen.

Months of planning, hundreds of guests and thousands of police in the streets will give way to a royal wedding redolent of the fairy tales written by Denmark’s Hans Christian Andersen.

Danish crown Prince Frederik and his Australian fiancee Mary Donaldson will get a 24-piece dinnerware as a wedding gift with motifs from fairytales by Hans Christian Andersen, designed by Lin Utzon, the daughter of the Danish architect who designed Sydney’s famed Opera House.

IRISH troops or other personnel must not be deployed in Iraq unless there is a clear distinction between any UN-mandated presence and the current US/UK occupation.