Wedding watchers tell Rita de Brún how big expense and bad behaviour with the wedding cake can hint that trouble lies ahead

The two Irish sportswriters who doggedly pursued Lance Armstrong throughout his career have dismissed the disgraced Texan’s TV confessional as a futile, desperate bid to mount one last climb — this time, out of the gutter he has mired himself in.

WE’VE mastered space travel, we can programme our lives through smart phones and we communicate more and more through computers. But, at the same time, the basics of the body language of love are still a mystery to many of us.

PRINCE William and his bride’s long-awaited kiss was playful and tender — a world away from his parents’ awkward embrace.

THE “three-year glitch” has replaced the “seven-year itch” as the tipping point where couples start to take each other for granted, according to a survey.