It’s that time of year again. College exams are over. The provincial championships are well underway, and that means the GAA clubs of Ireland being decimated by America.

A week in the life of women and sport, eh?

For this week’s Small Business column Kehlan Kirwan looks at what you should look out for before going out on that journey to start a business.

With each passing year, Jerry Maguire’s words ring truer.

The recent back and forth about Jamie Heaslip and Seán O’Brien’s professional rugby futures led us to consider an obvious question. How exactly are these contracts negotiated?

Actor Tom Cruise has dropped a $50m (€36.5m) defamation lawsuit against a German media company that published a report saying that the Hollywood star had “abandoned” his daughter, Suri, after his divorce from actress Katie Holmes.

If this fine country has relied on anything in recent times, it is our certainty about what represents an Absolute Disgrace.

As of today’s paper going to print, Paul McShane had yet to convince Giovanni Trapattoni of his merits as an international centre back.

It may be hard to believe today, but the first mobile call, made on the streets of New York in 1973, was met with gasps and stares, writes John Daly

Olympic superstar Usain Bolt ran rings around his opponents at London 2012 but can he tackle the hills of Donegal?

Cuba Gooding Jr. branded a female bartender a racist after she kicked him out of a New Orleans bar.

A barmaid who claimed Oscar-winning actor Cuba Gooding Jr pushed her does not plan to pursue criminal charges against him, her bosses at a New Orleans restaurant said.

MAYBE the parallel universe exists where Joe Montana is an out-half, and not a quarterback, or where William ‘The Refrigerator’ Perry is a loose-head prop rather than a defensive lineman.

GENERALLY viewed as deceased the world over, it turns out romance is actually alive, and may be seen, living and breathing, in a small town off the main Cork-Waterford road.

CONSIDERING he’d had less than five hours sleep, the new US Open champion was remarkably sharp.

IT was the morning after the night before at Brophy’s Tavern in Carmel.

Tom Cruise's second Oprah TV special turned into a tribute show on Monday as the movie star's famous friends honoured the actor in video messages.

SO WHERE’s the fire? Why the siren-wailing drama to appoint a new Republic of Ireland manager when we have nothing more serious than bragging to play for until next September? (On that point, why would we want May’s friendly opponents, Serbia, going back telling their cousins in Montenegran how good those Irelanders are?)

WHEN Tom Cruise marries Katie Holmes this weekend, like many a devout Scientologist, he may promise to provide her with “a pan, a comb, perhaps a cat”.

Jamie Foxx missed out on the chance to star alongside pal Tom Cruise in Jerry Maguire because he acted like a fool at his audition.

Sienna Miller may have given him the bum’s rush, but Jude Law has topped a poll of the sexiest bottoms on film.

MARLON BRANDO was a contender in the American Film Institute’s list of best quotes from US movies, but No 1 was Rhett Butler’s parting shot to Scarlett O’Hara: “Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn.”

Academy Award-winner Renee Zellweger recalled her first trip to Hollywood nearly two decades ago as a tourist as she received her own shiny star on the Walk of Fame.

Alfred Hitchcock has topped a poll of directors never to have won an Oscar.

THE Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King made a clean sweep of the Oscars yesterday with an epic 11 awards out of 11.

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King made a clean sweep of the Oscars today with an epic 11 awards out of 11.