This is going to take years, isn’t it? Bring a good book next time.

Sunday’s All-Ireland football final was indicative of the summer’s championship; promised much, delivered little. Joe Kernan, Colman Corrigan, John O’Leary and Seamus McEnaney reflect on a disappointing year for football and suggest what corrective surgery must be embarked on ahead of 2016...

KANYE WEST has taken KIM KARDASHIAN on a surprise holiday for her 34th birthday.

David Yates looks set to re-enter JK Rowling’s wizarding world as he is tipped to direct the Harry Potter spin-off.

TIPPERARY midfielder Kevin Mulryan has announced his retirement from intercounty football, aged 29.

THE deceptiveness of league form was painted vividly yesterday afternoon in Semple Stadium.

THE battle over the publication of a Harry Potter encyclopaedia “decimated” JK Rowling’s creativity and halted all work on a new novel, the author said yesterday.

A leading human rights campaigner today welcomed the revelation from Harry Potter author JK Rowling that Albus Dumbledore, headmaster of Hogwarts, is gay.

Kelly Osbourne has signed up as a DJ on Radio 1 while Chris Moyles' show has been lengthened, the British radio station announced today.

Harry Potter’s arch enemy, Lord Voldemort, is the odds-on favourite to kill off the famous boy wizard in the final instalment of the series, it was revealed today.

A TYPICAL Munster European night in Thomond Park. An utterly dominant pack decisively outplaying a giant Bourgoin eight, blowing them backwards in mauls both defensive and offensive.

HARRY Potter creator JK Rowling has hit back at critics who accused her of hypocrisy for attacking skinny models.

The seventh Harry Potter book may not be the last we hear of the boy wizard, author JK Rowling hinted today.

Ricky Gervais is going head to head with Jonathan Ross and Stephen Fry to be named radio's top presenter.