STANDING up, as she’s about to leave, Louise Phillips, author of the just-named Irish Crime Novel of the Year The Doll’s House may have cried as she told me about the dark place where her novels originate.

Actor David Kelly got one final standing ovation as his coffin was carried out of his local parish church at the end of his funeral Mass in Dublin yesterday.

You just can’t keep firebrand Colin Farrell far from the headlines, no matter how hard you might try.

BAD boy of Irish writing, Lee Dunne, yesterday fulfilled a half-century-old promise to himself by graduating with his first ever educational qualification.