It was meant to be just a girls’ day out, so it came as a mighty shock when Laura Jayne Halton was declared the best dressed lady at the Dublin Horse Show in the RDS yesterday.

Irish movie-lovers will be rooting for Cartoon Saloon tomorrow evening when the Kilkenny-based animation studio takes on the giants of Hollywood at the 87th Academy Awards ceremony with its feature film, Song of the Sea.

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Kerry’s own international fashion king, Don O’Neill, was back in the Kingdom last night to showcase his latest Theia spring collection.

Coming from Maynooth, the home of Ireland’s clerical elite, Laura Jayne Halton would have seen a fair few frocks in her youth — mostly worn by male clerics.