Conor Phelan’s Jump Juice of the Royal Cork Yacht Club goes into action at Howth YC this afternoon as the eight event Irish Cruiser Racing Association National Championships gets underway.

After a four-day series that delivered a full range of conditions, Howth Yacht Club’s Ross McDonald and the crew of Equinox won the Sovereigns Cup at Kinsale on Saturday.

A penultimate day to be remembered for all the best and not so good reasons was the hallmark of the ICRA Nationals Sovereigns Cup sponsored by Cork County Council at Kinsale yesterday.

Racing a 27-year revamped 30-foot yacht, Nigel Biggs won the Volvo Dun Laoghaire Regatta yesterday with a perfect record of six race wins.

It was a bittersweet prize-giving for double-Olympian Peter O’Leary at the newly refurbished Kinsale Yacht Club late on Saturday evening.

LIGHT winds on Dublin Bay ended the Volvo Dun Laoghaire Regatta in marked contrast to Thursday’s opening race near gale conditions and left close results across the fleet before the overall prize was awarded to the class two entry Supernova from the host port.

THE open waters surrounding Roche’s Point are often cited as one of the draws of Cork Week, with direct comparisons made to the busy shipping channels and leisure waterways that throng the Solent.

Kylie Minogue is planning a new career as a comedy actress.

Sienna Miller was happy to share intimate scenes with co-star Keira Knightley in their new movie 'The Edge of Love' - because she isn't afraid of filming lesbian clinches.

Keira Knightley didn't hesitate when she was asked to bare her breasts in new movie 'The Edge of Love' - because she believes sex scenes are more believable when performed by naked actors.

This is a disappointing account of a three-way romance involving troubled Welsh bard Dylan Thomas (Rhys) and his Irish wife Caitlin (Miller) and singer Vera (Knightley).

Keira Knightley and Sienna Miller will bring a touch of glamour to the opening of this year’s Edinburgh International Film Festival today.

Stateside star Natalie Portman has grabbed the role of Catherine Earnshaw in the screen version of Emily Bronte’s classic 'Wuthering Heights'.

So curious is this film that it deserves to succeed. That it succeeds only to some degree is a pity since the performances - particularly that of Brody - are uniformly excellent.

English actress Keira Knightley, who plays Guinevere in the epic summer flick King Arthur, almost didn't get the role in her latest film, The Jacket, because she had a severe attack of food poisoning.

US company Adaptec (Nasdaq: ADPT) has reached an agreement to acquire Eurologic Systems for around $30m (€27.7m) in cash.