Antonio Conte hopes Chelsea can replicate last season's 13-game winning streak in the Premier League, but acknowledges even that may be not enough to overhaul Manchester City.

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After two years and 10 months, 93-year-old Ernie Andrus has made it across America.

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They say you should never meet your hero, you'll only be disappointed. That was certainly not the case for Bryce Hayashi and Mickle Miller when they played the Star Wars theme outside the house of composer John Williams.

Stranger Things is on Netflix tomorrow, bringing plenty of supernatural stuff to the streaming service.

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John Williams has confirmed that he will score Spielberg’s Ready Player One, with his work on it beginning in November.

If you haven't already spent more than you should on tie in tat for Star Wars the Force Awakens, this is the tat you've been looking for.

Will Leonardo DiCaprio finally bag an Oscar, and what are Saoirse Ronan’s chances of hearing her name called?

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Further proof that everything gets better if you add lightsabers.

With the US economy likely to reach full employment before the year’s end and inflation on track to rise to the Federal Reserve’s target, the US central bank could raise interest rates in its June meeting, a top Fed official said yesterday.

A pensioner who suffered severe spinal injuries when he fell while crossing rocks on a Kerry beach was left waiting two hours for an ambulance, an inquest has heard.

Mary McCarthy is from Whitehall, near Skibbereen, Co Cork. She is director of the National Sculpture Factory in Cork and also chair of Culture Ireland.

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Millions of Star Wars fans have been given a taster of the new film as the first trailer is unveiled — a whole year ahead of the next instalment of the sci-fi saga. 

The homeless man who accompanied US singer Miley Cyrus to the MTV Video Music Awards has a warrant out for his arrest in Oregon.

'12 Years a Slave' star Lupita Nyong'o and 'Game of Thrones' warrior Gwendoline Christie have been announced as the latest additions to the cast of Star Wars: Episode VII.

Many mental illnesses are as bad for you as smoking, research has suggested.

Many mental illnesses are as bad for you as smoking, with life expectancy for people with mental health problems less than that for heavy smokers, experts have found.

The NCH hosts a concert by Jerry Creedon and Claire Adams, writes Jo Kerrigan.

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Space drama Gravity is the film to beat at tonight's Baftas.

Steve McQueen’s 12 Years A Slave continued its award season success by picking up 10 nominations at the Baftas.

We view a selection of trading up homes from around the country

A teenager injured when a car driven by a 17-year-old friend crashed with what a judge called “terrifying force” is to receive €100,000 in damages.

Man hopes to repeat cash giveaway

As a lifelong fan of classical guitar legend John Williams, he’d always have been at the top of my all-time wish-list of interviewees.

THE renowned classical guitarist, John Williams, will perform a solo recital at the CIT Cork School of Music next Thursday, Nov 21. This is his third, and probably final concert in Ireland. He is retiring from concert recitals after June 2014.

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To keep an arts festival going in some of the toughest economic conditions this country has ever witnessed is an achievement in itself.

Success comes in many different forms and it’s not all about having your name up in lights — that was the advice from TV star Graham Norton to young people yesterday.

Locals in Kilkee have rebelled against Clare County Council’s decision to scrub out a mural of Che Guevara by replacing it with two more.

You know when you try and sing a theme song by going: Ba-ba, ba-ba-baBA-ba…?