The Cork couple behind Gare St Lazare are back with a second instalment of their widely-praised take on the strange and wonderful ‘How It Is’, writes Marjorie Brennan.

The Irish Dressage team have qualified for an Olympic Games for the first time ever.

Judy Hegarty Lovett is from Monkstown in Co Cork, and is co-artistic director of theatre company Gare St Lazare Ireland.

Wild Rose looks like being a breakthrough role for Jessie Buckley, and the Kerry actress has a string of other big projects in the pipeline, writes Esther McCarthy.

No-one else has to die here —that’s the blunt message from two Americans with a tragic connection who have backed calls to close a lethal turn on a stretch of the N20 Cork to Limerick road.

I’ve googled it and I don’t think it exists yet. There are a few fictional series based on it, but not what I’m planning. I’ve threatened to make my millions a few times in this column, but this could be the one where I finally get enough money together for a shed, writes Colm O’Regan. 

Jessie Buckley may be on the cusp of stardom, but the thing she’s most looking forward to is returning to Killarney for her sister’s Confirmation, writes Esther McCarthy

Georgia Humphreys talks to some of those involved in the major plotlines of season seven

Andy and Jamie Murray could seek to cap their glittering careers by teaming up to win a Wimbledon doubles title, according to their mother Judy.

Soccer legend Roy Keane has praised schoolchildren whose heroic fundraising efforts for the Irish Guide Dogs (IGD) have helped transform lives.

We’re not gonna lie, this has made our day.

A burned body has been found at the scene of a wildfire north of Los Angeles that has scorched 31 square miles and prompted the evacuation of 1,500 homes, authorities said.

Esther Rantzen is paired with John on the first episode of Celebrity First Dates, on Channel 4 at 9pm on Friday.

A beauty queen has revealed how the trauma of discovering the body of a friend who had died through suicide, has inspired her to get on her bike to help raise awareness of suicide.

The current political impasse offers us an opportunity to try a fresh new partnership approach to doing politics, writes Denis Naughten

Sing Street 4/5

Beatles producer, George Martin, who has died aged 90, has been described as “visionary” and “a musical genius”.

George Martin has been described as "visionary" and "a musical genius" as tributes flooded in following his death at 90.

Just before dawn on a Thursday in early March 2006, several hundred Gardaí and soldiers swarmed Thomas "Slab" Murphy's border farm.

Here's what we recommend to watch on the box tonight.

Here's what's on the box tonight.

US father and son marathon legends Dick and Rick Hoyt are preparing to take part in their first Irish race.

Mary Hopkins reminisces on 30+ years attending the Cork Chamber Annual Dinner which takes place tonight in City Hall, Cork

Limerick multi-millionaire and philanthropist JP McManus has been officially announced as the new owner of Adare Manor Hotel and Golf Resort.

BY the end of the month we’ll start to see a stretch in daylight, and although still in the clutch of winter, that light will show up paintwork yellowed by open fires, and black patches on walls above radiators.

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What to watch on telly tonight.

And doesn’t seem to mind she bookies favourite to leave the show.

I have seen a number of people express extreme dismay over the past week about the abysmally low turn-out in the Dublin South West by-election last weekend.

Strictly Come Dancing favourite Frankie Bridge has been nursed by her professional show partner after she was left with an ankle injury in training.

Patriotic Scot Judy Murray took to the dance floor in a tartan dress while a bagpiper played Mull Of Kintyre for the new series of Strictly Come Dancing.

Craig Revel Horwood is predicting Judy Murray will be a dancefloor disaster when she makes her debut on Strictly Come Dancing this weekend.

One of the jewels of Irish tourism, the Adare Manor and Golf Resort, is being put up for sale tomorrow.

Simon Webbe of boyband Blue will be hoping he can make the Strictly Come Dancing judges All Rise as the latest celebrity named for the new series.

Conor Lovett is performing a work by a contemporary American playwright for his new show, writes Colette Sheridan.

Nearly all of the politicians involved in the fiasco around the membership of the banking inquiry committee have done their profession a disservice and have further diminished our parliament in the eyes of a weary, increasingly cynical citizenship.

TV couple Richard Madeley and Judy Finnigan say they have given each other “a pledge” to help end their lives if they become seriously ill.

Tennis star Andy Murray’s luxury hotel has been named Scottish hotel of the year — just weeks after it opened its doors to guests.

Jojo Moyes