A US schoolgirl has set up her own business after claiming to have come up for a cure for hiccups.

It’s always been one of my favourite anecdotes, but given an apparent lack of relevance to groin strains and lengthy suspensions, I’d never expected to be able to air it in this corner of the paper.

There’s a standing joke here on the sportsdesk when it comes to the Fitzgibbon Cup weekend: tell the photographers to turn their backs on the action out on the field and focus on the personalities in the crowd.

Haphazard and frenetic by name, 'Haywire' is a coolly assured and breathlessly choreographed action thriller that has been tailored to the dazzling athletic prowess of its leading lady.

HOLLYWOOD’S ongoing love affair with the sport of baseball continues with Moneyball (PG), although Bennett Miller’s film is unusual in two respects.

JOHNNY DEPP played an extravagant version of the controversial author Hunter S Thompson in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998).

From film to fashion, movies to music, food to travel, our critics reveal their Hot 100 choices for the summer ahead.

Kristen Stewart found it difficult to relate to her stripper character in 'Welcome to the Rileys'.

Oscar-winning film director Steven Soderbergh will begin shooting a new film starring top Hollywood stars on the streets of Dublin within weeks, it was confirmed today.

CONTROVERSIAL author Jeffrey Archer delivered the keynote address at the Thomas Crosbie Holdings annual business dinner in the company’s South Mall headquarters last night.

Dublin's Sarah Bolger is set to hit our screens this coming weekend in the 'Spiderwick Chronicles', a movie version of the bestselling book series of the same name.

An expedition on Mount Everest retracing the 1924 climb by George Mallory and Andrew Irvine returned from the mountain today unable to say whether the two men were the first to scale the world's highest peak.

A suburban Atlanta judge today upheld the decision of Georgia school officials to keep the best-selling Harry Potter books in school libraries in a county where one mother had lobbied to have them removed.

DUBLIN actress Sarah Bolger has been signed up to star in a new Hollywood movie based on an extraordinary love story which began at a Nazi concentration camp.

The psychotic duo from the film Natural Born Killers have been voted the most unromantic couple in movie history.

An expedition to discover whether George Mallory and Andrew Irvine conquered Mount Everest before their deaths has found a sock and mitten thought to belong to the men, it emerged today.

British officials are trying to clear up a VAT problem that has stalled the return of artifacts recovered near the body of English climber George Mallory, who died on Mount Everest more than 75 years ago.