“You a fight fan?” the owner of my laundromat asked as he leaned back against a washing machine, his arm awkwardly stretched back over the whirring of a spin cycle.

I watched The Disappeared on RTÉ. I expected major information about those who are missing or those whose bodies have been recovered. But, alas, that was not the case.

Greece’s election campaign turned ugly yesterday on live television.

CLAIMS that the English city riots were provoked by social deprivation, marginalised youths, the disadvantaged and social malcontents in British society, do not tally with the profile of some of those already charged with looting, arson and vandalism.

A TRAGIC heroine killed by her own hand.

Pamela Anderson is taking part in the UK's ‘Dancing With the Stars’.

Controversial daytime TV host Jeremy Kyle is to take his show to the US, it was announced today.

Louis Walsh is worried an ‘X Factor’ contestant suffering from Asperger's Syndrome can’t “handle” the show.

I REMEMBER reading an interview with actor Neil Morrissey (aka Bob the Builder) some years back where he spoke of his childhood as the son of Irish immigrants in Britain in the 1970s.

Nick Cannon has won over producers as the new host of US TV show 'America's Got Talent', by enlisting his wife Mariah Carey to make a guest appearance.

Jerry Springer will make his West End stage debut in 'Chicago' – and joked today that the audience will need to guess which notes he is meant to be singing.

Miss Venezuela has been crowned Miss Universe 2008 in a contest marked by the spectacle of Miss USA falling over during the evening gown competition for the second year in a row.

BEHIND all the hugs and smiles, the 80 Miss Universe contestants are engaged in a fierce competition.

Mel B will co-host this year’s Miss Universe pageant.

IT’S December 1994, the Fianna Fáil regime is minutes from collapse and Albert Reynolds is chasing Bertie Ahern around Government Buildings with a gun.

'Harry Potter' star Daniel Radcliffe is among a host of stars who have donated their spectacles to a new exhibition commemorating the Holocaust.

DANIEL RADCLIFFE, who has captivated moviegoers as the bespectacled schoolboy wizard in the Harry Potter films, has donated the first pair of glasses he wore as a child to an exhibition marking the horrors of the Holocaust.

Jerry Springer is "embarrassed" by his long-running TV chat show, insisting he never would have made it if his mother was alive.

Harvey Keitel is to star in 'Jerry Springer – the Opera in Concert' for two performances in New York.

Jerry Springer is to front a new confessional TV show for British TV.

England's leading rugby players could go on strike if the row between the top clubs and the game's governing body is not resolved.

Music mogul Simon Cowell has hired outrageous talk show host Jerry Springer to front his hit US TV talent contest America's Got Talent.

Heather Mills will be a contestant on US TV show Dancing With The Stars, it was announced today.

Paul McCArtney's estranged wife Heather Mills has slammed reports she has signed up for US reality TV show Dancing with the Stars.

Talk show host Jerry Springer is the latest celebrity to sign up for the new season of US hit reality show Dancing with the Stars.

Jerry Springer has been lined-up to host a new ITV1 daytime gameshow.

A senior church figure in the UK has called for an “offensive” and “blasphemous” opera to be stopped, it emerged today.

British stage show Jerry Springer - The Opera has been saved, after a string of theatres across the country agreed to stage the controversial musical.

Talk show host Jerry Springer was shocked when he began filming his new British talks show, because his guests had fouler mouths than their US counterparts.

The BBC’s decision to screen Jerry Springer: The Opera was cleared by broadcasting watchdog Ofcom today.

BBC governors have rejected 63,000 viewer complaints about Jerry Springer - The Opera and ruled the BBC was right to show it.

Talk show host Jerry Springer will take his American satellite radio show nationwide.

Chat show host Jerry Springer will get audiences all shook up when he appears on Celebrity Stars In Their Eyes as Elvis Presley.

US talk show king Jerry Springer is to replace Britain's Trisha with a new daytime show on ITV.

A cancer charity turned down a £3,000 (€4,300) donation from a performance of Jerry Springer – The Opera after an outcry from religious activists, it emerged today.

TV presenter Jerry Springer has slammed controversial musical Jerry Springer The opera for it its offensive portrayal of different religions.

Christians angered by the Jerry Springer musical broadcast by the BBC are to pursue a private prosecution against the corporation for alleged blasphemy, it emerged today.

Tory deputy leader Michael Ancram today joined criticism of the BBC for screening the controversial Jerry Springer musical.

The BBC was bracing itself for further criticism today as it prepared to screen the controversial Jerry Springer musical.

The date of Jerry Springer - The Opera's Broadway debut has been thrown into jeopardy, following money wrangles.

TV host Jerry Springer is to turn DJ by presenting a radio show on Capital Gold.

Matthew Kelly, the TV presenter whose career was nearly ruined by child sex abuse allegations, has been named best actor at the Olivier Awards.

Stars In Their Eyes host Matthew Kelly has been nominated for best actor at the prestigious Laurence Olivier Awards