Then there were two. As Gary Player and Jack Nicklaus performed their duties as honorary starters at the 81st Masters yesterday morning, an empty lawn chair was on the tee box with them that the previous year had been filled by their great friend Arnold Palmer.

 

Jack Nicklaus fought back the tears in an emotional tribute to his long-time friend and great rival at the memorial service for Arnold Palmer in Latrobe, Pennsylvania on Tuesday.

DEBUT novelist Emma Green’s foray into literary science fiction focuses on Katherine ‘Kit’ North, a 19-year-old who projects her consciousness into animals for research purposes.

It was already tipped that Kit Harington (Game of Thrones' Jon Snow) would appear in the upcoming Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare and now it's official.

POOR old George Clooney in The Descendants not only has his beloved wife in a coma but he also has to contend with the discovery that she had been having an affair. 

Jodie Foster’s  first films as a director were personal. Money Monster, starring a dancing George Clooney, sees her tackling the financial sector, writes Helen Barlow

TAYLOR SWIFT’s juggernaut of an album, 1989, has continued to rack up huge sales figures - and has now been crowned the fastest-selling album in a decade. 

KIT HARINGTON has admitted he finds the global fame that comes with being a successful actor disconcerting, and that he wants to keep trying to live a normal life.

Hull v Aston Villa: tonight: Hull boss Steve Bruce has ridiculed reports linking him with a summer move to Fulham.

This little boy has a very special wish list.

One of Ireland’s greatest chefs survived an industrial school, says Joe McNamee 

'Game of Thrones' cast members will be paid $300,000 an episode.

Elbow, The Script and Lenny Kravitz have joined the line-up for the 2014 iTunes Festival.

A man has escaped injury after he fell from his speedboat which carried on circling around him out of control.

The 'Game of Thrones' writers prank the cast by killing them off in fake scripts.

MUCH sport is to be had watching a celebrity unravel — until it is obvious they are headed for a sticky end. While Justin Bieber is no Amy Winehouse, he is a young man in trouble.

The Quarry

A mother and her three children are being treated in hospital for serious injuries following a speedboat accident which killed her husband and daughter.

Jodie Foster reportedly plans to tell her sons who their father is when they turn 21.

Jodie Foster came out without really coming out, and suggested she was retiring from acting without exactly saying so, in a long, breathless and rambling speech at the Golden Globe Awards.

As his maverick Edinburgh detective Rebus returns after a five-year absence, best-selling author Ian Rankin tells Hannah Stephenson why he’s frustrated by the TV adaptations of his books — and that he never watches them.

Toby’s Room

Kit Kat, Crunchie, Dairymilk, Mars Bar...

Sophie Ellis Bextor has given birth to a baby boy.

Sophie Ellis Bextor is pregnant with her third child.

A MAN who walked free from court after beating up a pensioner on Halloween has thanked the 71-year-old man for giving him a second chance at life.

A COMMUNITY closed ranks to thwart a Garda probe into an assault on a retired landscape gardener, Limerick Circuit Court heard.

FOR THE youngster just coming to terms with numbers, who better to promote counting than the bunch of slimy, hairy uglies in The Monster Counting Book by Kate Daubeny (Caterpillar; €10.66)?

Nuala Ní Chonchúir

KENYAN police have arrested three men who they suspect were involved in the murder of Co Limerick born missionary, Fr Jer Roche, who was attacked in his house in the Kericho region last Friday.

THE Irish priest murdered in Kenya yesterday had planned to retire next year and return home to his native Athea in west Limerick.

Jamie Theakston has become a father for the second time, naming his new son Kit.

Kithonia is not likely to join an elite band of Fillies’ Mile winners for master trainer Henry Cecil.

Sophie Ellis Bextor regrets buying lots of the clothes in her wardrobe.

Stoke manager Tony Pulis has thrown down the gauntlet to misfiring striker Dave Kitson.

Cybill Shepherd turns up in The L Word: The Complete Fourth Season (Fox, €49.99) as a married woman with children who comes out as a lesbian.

Three heroic fire fighters killed in the worst tragedy to hit the service were today honoured in Dublin city.

Jodie Foster wants her children to join her in the movie business - but as directors instead of actors.

A 10-YEAR-OLD schoolgirl who got up at the crack of dawn to capture the moment on camera was in the limelight yesterday after winning Ireland’s most innovative schools photography competition.

Survivors and relatives of the victims are due to mark the 20th anniversary of the Enniskillen bombing today.