Tributes to screen legend Maureen O’Hara, who died at the age of 95, were led by President Micheal D Higgins.

SHE was the voluptuous pin-up girl who set a million male hearts pounding during World War II, the favourite movie star of a generation of young men long before she’d made a movie more than a handful of them had ever seen.

Jane Russell, the busty brunette who shot to fame as the sexy star of Howard Hughes’ 1941 Western 'The Outlaw', has died of respiratory failure, her family said today.

BRAD JOHNSON and Tampa Bay buried San Francisco in the first-half, while Rich Gannon and the Oakland Raiders came on strong against the Jets in the second, and both ended up in the NFL’s divisional finals next week.