Ignored by reviewers when first published last year and given neither promotion nor publicity, an unknown writer has shot to the top of Amazon’s fiction charts with a book which could be described as “pension porn”.

TO DESCRIBE Ireland’s strapping master of versatility as a jolly green giant might be pushing it a bit but John O’Shea is one of those players for whom a broad grin is never too far away.

Hugh Grant and Sandra Bullock were set to keep everyone guessing about their friendship tonight at the premiere of their new movie Two Weeks Notice.