The magnificently restored Georgian home of Senator David Norris has been named Celebrity Home of the Year.

Mrs Browns Boys, Bridget & Eamon, and Baz and Nancy going to see the Pope are some of the highlights on RTÉ for the Christmas period.

Irish women are increasingly turning to ‘hairapy’ to get their heads right, discovers Deirdre Reynolds

Sharing a kiss with your kid should be the most natural thing in the world. Clodagh Finn observes the backlash as some chose to criticise Victoria Beckham for doing just that

Cut a festive figure this year with fluid fabrics and a little sparkle, says Clodagh Finn

One of the Irish students injured in the Berkeley balcony collapse yesterday marked three months since the tragedy by remembering her friends who died in the incident.

Prepare for the ultimate fashion fantasy!

"The Renault Captur is a lovely car to drive — but for me a car has to look good too and the Captur is a really stylish car inside and out."

IN TV land second chances don’t come knocking on your door very often.

IT BEGAN as a school project — but Molly Parmeter’s celebrity ‘style bible’ is a media sensation.

Pharmacists are urging parents to check their children for head lice every week, now that school has started.

We're on the street in Cork and Dublin this week to see what threads you're wearing.

Walking into Punchestown racecourse yesterday afternoon, it felt a little like turning up for the afters at a wedding — you know there are good times to come, but that the main event has been and gone.

Adventurer Ian McKeever took “the road less travelled”, mourners at his requiem Mass were told.

JANUARY

Pic 1: Enka Nunkhuu and Ugi Gantsog at the launch of Irish designer Peter O’Brien’s third collection for Arnotts in Dublin.

Pic 1: Ken Doherty and Lorraine Keane at the Virgin Atlantic International Charity Lunch in aid of the Rape Crisis Centre at the Westin Hotel, Dublin.

My parents always told me I was lucky.

SOME of Ireland’s best-known socialites are rolling up their sleeves to spring clean their homes for a massive charity jumble sale.

WHILE a garden designed by Diarmuid Gavin is out of many people’s price range, a piece of pottery painted by the celebrity gardener is one of many that have gone under the hammer to raise funds for meningitis research.

IT has outlived many of its most famous characters like the Red Cow roundabout and the Westlink toll bridge, so AA Roadwatch had plenty of reason to celebrate yesterday when it marked 21 years of broadcasting traffic updates to a congested nation.

GIVEN the demanding schedule she sets herself, it’s a wonder Maureen O’Connell gave herself a long enough break to make it to the finals of the Woman’s Way/John West Mum of the Year contest.

Hollywood star Denzel Washington has emerged as the surprise favourite to be Ryan Tubridy's first guest as he begins his tenure as 'Late Late Show' host.

The bitches may have dominated the scene last week but it will be the turn of the stayers tomorrow night when the final of the Accelerated Drain Cleaning Corn Cuchulainn will be the main event on a gala Harold’s Cross card that will be featured live in an hour long programme on Setanta Ireland.

ANGELINA JOLIE, Meryl Streep and Emma Thompson could all be celebrating St Valentine’s Day in Dublin tonight.

IT WAS as if any mention of economic doom and gloom was banned at the Curragh yesterday.

THE bookies took a bashing at a rainy Galway yesterday as the women turned on the style for Ladies’ Day.

ANDREA ROCHE swept to victory last night as the Most Stylish Woman at the Peter Mark VIP Style awards.

CHICKEN nuggets and chips on a plastic plate are often the only option for kids in restaurants and hotels but a new guide should make it easier for parents to choose venues with child-friendly, nutritious menus.

DOZENS of balloons were released into Irish skies yesterday as cities across the globe marked the 50th day since the disappearance of four-year-old Madeleine McCann.

Scores of yellow and white balloons will be released this morning to mark the 50th day since the disappearance of little Madeleine McCann in Portugal.

SMILES, laughter and a good dollop of ice cream — it was the perfect ingredients for the launch of HB Ice Cream Sunday in support of Down Syndrome Ireland (DSI).

IRISH people’s appetite for gossip and entertainment is set to reach new levels with TV3 devoting a new daily magazine programme to the celebrity life of leading Irish and international stars.

THE Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern, has promised to exercise more as he joins two thirds of the population in vowing to get fit in 2007.

MUNSTER might be top of the rugby world but Leinster can lay claim to one important title as a Wexford woman was yesterday named as Mum of the Year 2006.

BUBBLY Kathryn Thomas is the nation’s favourite woman presenter.

PAULINE O’REILLY’S seven adopted children have never heard their mother curse or shout or say anything bad about anyone.

WALK On, Walk On....

NUALA Hussey is a selfless mother who always manages to make light of what life throws at her.

Irish band The Devlins have announced they are to play three shows in Dublin next month.

CORONATION STREET stars and some of Ireland’s top models will be in Killarney tomorrow night for a charity fashion show.

FORGET the Oscars and the Meteor Awards, the most hotly-contested list of the year is here — and rugby’s captain fantastic, Brian O’Driscoll, takes poll position.

HIGH winds, driving rain and thick fog on Carrantouhill have dashed the record bid to conquer the five highest mountains in Ireland and Britain.