Millions of euros worth of Irish property was sold at two separate auctions yesterday, each streamed live online from Cork and Dublin, and they followed on from a further €12.5 million netted at the inaugural Allsop Private auction last week of 20 properties, at average sale prices of €625,000.

When the world’s most beautiful people are in danger only someone really, really incredibly good looking can save them.

The Metal Gear series has always been a bit metal and over the top, but The Phantom Pain is taking things to new heights of nutty. 

The movie franchise The Expendables rolls ever on and its set to get a new outlet with an action/drama TV show

Here's our pick of today's TV.

Stephen Fry is Gay Byrne’s guest on The Meaning of Life on RTÉ One tomorrow.

Your spoiler free guide to tonight's TV.

Check out our spoiler-free guide to the best of tonight's TV.

Could Jack be back for another season?

BETWEEN forkfuls of salad in a New York restaurant, TV presenter Dawn O’Porter, 35, is remembering the 2011 Baftas.

Kiefer Sutherland fears he is too old to continue '24'.

House of Cards makes a welcome return on Netflix, and Frank looks just as nasty as ever.

Hang on…Helen Mirren twerks in her bedroom?!

Irish comedian Brendan O’Carroll picked up another gong tonight, this time at the National Television Awards (NTAs) in London.

Kiefer Sutherland says the '24' movie is an "ongoing situation".

Croke Park, September 3, 1995: Clare 1-13 Offaly 2-8.

Kiefer Sutherland whipped his shirt off on a boozy night out with Demi Moore.

THE S/S 2013 Fashion Weeks were seeing double, with some of the biggest international names sending their models out twinned, two by two.

Kiefer Sutherland has been named Harvard University's Hasty Pudding Man of the Year.

Julia Roberts is enjoying a family vacation in the West of Ireland.

Kiefer Sutherland has confirmed the big screen adaptation of '24' will start shooting next summer.

Kiefer Sutherland, Brendan Fraser and Eva Longoria have joined the cast of 'Married and Cheating'.

The big-screen adaptation of '24' has been postponed.

SATURDAY

Birdsong, BBC One, tomorrow

JOHN MADDEN’S The Debt (15A) opens in modern Israel, with Rachel (Helen Mirren) attending the launch of her daughter’s book, which details a mission carried out by three Mossad agents in East Berlin during the 1960s.

24's Jack Bauer has been named as the hottest TV crime fighter ever.

Lisa Kudrow has asked her former 'Friends' co-stars to appear on 'Web Therapy'.

Kiefer Sutherland has split from Siobhan Bonnouvrier.

Danish director Lars Von Trier has been banned from the Cannes Film Festival and declared “persona non grata” after telling a press conference he was a Nazi and could understand Hitler.

CONTROVERSIAL director Lars Von Trier may not win the Palme d’Or at this, year’s Cannes Film Festival but he appears odds-on favourite to take the prize for the strangest press conference.

Director Lars Von Trier admitted Kirsten Dunst is a better actress than he thought when he gave her a part in his new film.

Scottish director Lynne Ramsay’s new film is in the running for the Cannes Film Festival’s top prize.

Kiefer Sutherland admits being thrown out of a London strip club shirtless was “horrific”.

Kiefer Sutherland is pleased the ‘24’ movie is “exempt” from being written minute-by-minute.

Kiefer Sutherland has confirmed the ‘24’ movie has been written.

The actor Kiefer Sutherland – who is filming the eighth and final season of the real-time drama '24' – has revealed his character, CTU (Counter-Terrorism Unit) Agent Jack Bauer will get up close and personal will fellow investigating officer Renee Walker (Annie Werschling).

US TV network Fox announced that its action-packed real-time show starring Kiefer Sutherland as anti-terrorism agent Jack Bauer will close at the end of its current eighth season on May 24.

Matt Damon thrilled restaurant staff by leaving a $400 (€300) tip.

Corey Haim will be buried in his native Canada, it has emerged.

Corey Haim was living with his mother to help her battle cancer prior to his shock death.

Kiefer Sutherland will return to ‘24’ next week, after being given the all-clear by doctors.

Kiefer Sutherland has been forced to suspend filming of '24' to have minor surgery.