GRACE Cosgrove invited some of her school pals from Dublin down to her grandad’s place in Co Limerick for the Irish Open.

Director Oliver Stone has begun shooting one of the first Hollywood films about the September 11 2001 attacks in New York – without recreating the large-scale devastation all too familiar to people who lived through the outrage.

TWINS David and Elaine McCarthy had 15 good reasons to celebrate last night. Between them, they scored that many As in the Leaving Certificate.

Gordon and Sarah Brown will be offered counselling sessions after the loss of their prematurely born baby daughter.