Fifty years after Martin Luther King was assassinated, new museums and memorials are highlighting the civil rights movement, writes Isabel Conway, as she travels from Tennessee to Mississippi.

The Ballymaloe House ‘sweet trolley’ is legendary indeed. For over 50 years it has been wheeled around the dining rooms at Ballymaloe House piled high with tempting desserts to tantalise guests at the end of their meal. 

Chris Eubank rose to his feet to defend family honour when George Groves lit the fuse for his super-middleweight clash with Chris Eubank Jr by questioning his opponent's pedigree.

US President Donald Trump's eldest son was reportedly told that the Kremlin was behind supposedly damaging information he received about Hillary Clinton.

William Clay Ford Jr was in Cork today where he visited University College Cork.

Fianna Fáil will not be appointing a deputy leader as Micheál Martin believes there is “no urgent requirement” to do so.

MY SISTER is in Dallas at the moment. She WhatsApps to say that it’s not all stetsons and steers. I wouldn’t know, having ever only seen it on the telly when it was shiny skyscrapers and melodramatic family breakfasts on windswept verandahs with JR and Sue Ellen.

I ordered some tractor diesel the other day, and when JR Ewing himself came out to deliver it, I had to laugh. 

A son and his blind father, both involved in a waste disposal business, had failed to properly account for the source of tens of thousands of euro in their bank accounts during investigations into whether certain monies had been the proceeds of crime, the Court of Appeal said.

SINGER Johnny Cash burst onto the music scene in June, 1955, when his double A-side ‘Hey Porter’ and ‘Cry, Cry, Cry’ reached no 14 in the US country charts.

EMMA O’Driscoll is from Limerick and presents TV show Twigín on RTÉjr and Twigín on RTÉjr radio. She is a former member of the band Six.

Robert Downey Jr hasn’t ruled out another ‘Iron Man’ film — and who could blame him? He’s been named as Hollywood’s top earner — for the second time.

I was doing so well.

When used appropriately, makeup can be your face’s true ally in the fight to look youthful and fresh.

PETE Seeger was born in Patterson, New York, on May 3, 1919, and was 94 when he passed away last week in a hospital in New York City.

One of the country’s most controversial sub-prime lenders is vigorously seeking to repossess dozens of properties in at least 15 counties after every one of his borrowers went into default.

As seismic moments in Irish sport go, the decision to drop Brian O’Driscoll from the Lions squad ranks up there with Roy Keane being sent home from the World Cup in Saipan.

His family were the barons of the boom but now Seán Quinn Jr is to sell his home in a bid to purge contempt of court orders after a judge yesterday rejected his alternative offer of a $75,000 (€56,000) payment.

I am a little late to the Tony Grealish tribute show, but bear with me.

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Seán Quinn Jr, the son of jailed businessman Seán Quinn, is prepared to sell the home he shares with his wife in a bid to purge his contempt of court, the High Court heard yesterday.

J.R Ewing will get a send-off with a proper funeral on "Dallas."

Tributes were flooding in from around the world today following the death of Dallas star Larry Hagman.

Ricky Hatton has revealed just how close he came to committing suicide following during his three-year retirement from boxing.

Dallas is now a modern, shiny city with a skyline of skyscrapers of various colours, shapes and sizes. The Reunion Tower is one of the most noticeable — it looks like a tower with a golf ball on top.

Perhaps most vitally, they boasted then a certain dash of JR’s winning lawlessness.

It’s back.

Workers at the Guinness brewery in Dublin were a little shocked to discover a snake at St. James' Gate.

The success of hit series Desperate Housewives paved the way for the return of classic US soap opera Dallas, according to a star of both shows.

It dominated Irish TV in the 1980s — and now Dallas is coming back. Suzanne Harrington on the return of JR and Bobby Ewing.

Although the commercial viability of the Barryroe oil field has been established, the next stage is by no means risk-free.

TERENCE MALICK’S return to the fray was one of the highlights of 2011’s film year.

JR EWING has returned to Dallas after 20 years.

Actor Larry Hagman said today he had been diagnosed with cancer.

Channel 5 is to air 'Dallas' next year.

ONCE it was: “Who shot JR?“

WELL, tip my 10-gallon hat and fix me a bourbon — if it ain’t the wiliest ole’ coyote in the Lone Star State makin’ his way back to the small screen.

Larry Hagman, who played the cold, conniving oil baron J.R. Ewing in the beloved 1980s series 'Dallas', auctioned off many of his personal valuables.

NOTHING quite illustrates Alex Ferguson’s extraordinary longevity better than the juxtaposition of images from Manchester and Dallas on Sunday.

SHE was the voluptuous pin-up girl who set a million male hearts pounding during World War II, the favourite movie star of a generation of young men long before she’d made a movie more than a handful of them had ever seen.

Jane Russell, the busty brunette who shot to fame as the sexy star of Howard Hughes’ 1941 Western 'The Outlaw', has died of respiratory failure, her family said today.

FIANNA Fáil and Fine Gael could be standing together outside the GPO for the centenary of the Easter Rebellion in little over five years time, according to Leo Varadkar.

THERE is considerable interest around the personalities in Kerry in the forthcoming election. Will John O’Donoghue get re-elected, will Michael Healy-Rae succeed his father, and will another Spring swap places with a McEllistrim?