Actress Rooney Mara reigns the Cannes red carpet in head-to-toe monochrome. Are her style secrets black and white? Let’s find out.

Once we go online our privacy is a thing of the past, but there are a number of steps you can take to maximise your own level of protection, writes Tom O’Mara

The grandmother of Golden Globe winning actor, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, was remembered at her requiem Mass over the weekend as a special lady who was so loved that 24 people crowded around her bed as she took her last breath in hospital.

Brian Murphy thinks Enda Kenny’s best chance of forming a new government after the general election will come if he sticks to the story of recovery he has been telling all along

Family, friends and politicians bade a final farewell to PJ Mara yesterday as the former government press secretary was laid to rest in Co Galway.

PJ Mara was the most famous political spin doctor in modern Irish history, having played a leading role in Fianna Fáil for more than 30 years.

The day I met PJ Mara we were both green and looking a little lost. I had been sent by a newspaper in Dublin to cover an event in the offices of the Construction Industry Federation. I stepped out of a lift to be met by Mr Mara.

When PJ Mara resigned as Fianna Fáil director of elections for the Nice Treaty referendum in 2002 after adverse findings against him in the Flood Tribunal, it looked like he might be departing the political scene for good.

PJ Mara, the flamboyant former government press secretary, will be buried in Kinvara Co Galway tomorrow beside his late wife.

If the pen is mightier than the sword, then satire is the scimitar of political pomposity, argues Rita de Brún.

IRISH actor Jonathan Rhys Meyers has thanked fans for their support by sharing a picture of himself, looking happy and healthy, with his fiancee, Mara Lane.

Catherine Shanahan talks to Tim O’Mara a veteran soap opera director who has worked on popular staples such as Emmerdale and Coronation Street, and who is currently driving the storyline of our very own.

Mara Wilson, who played Matilda and Kiami Davael, who played Lavender shared their lunch date reunion snap on Twitter.

Fianna Fáil officials are staying quiet over claims that one of the party’s best-known spin doctors, PJ Mara, could be set to head its general election campaign.

We all remember Mara Wilson, the cute kid who starred in Matilda, Miracle on 34th Street and of course Mrs Doubtfire, alongside the late Robin Williams.

As crime boss Nidge in Love/Hate, Tom Vaughan Lawlor hasn’t flinched from dispatching his enemies, and soon he’ll be playing another character who knows where the bodies are buried.

Rooney Mara is to appear in 'The Secret Scripture'.

Thrillers

ALASTAIR CAMPBELL was in Dublin last week, flogging a book, revisiting the past, and standing by an old pal.

Littlefinger as Charlie Haughey? Nidge as Mara? How we scoffed. But we scoff no more…

Charles Haughey’s former press secretary believes the revelation he was having an affair was the “most painful moment” for the former Taoiseach.

READING a biography of someone you met many times both professionally and socially is an interesting experience. Will the book reveal things about its subject that you didn’t know?

Richard Curtis — the writer of Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill and Love, Actually — is best known for his offbeat romantic comedies, but About Time (12A), which he also directs, is probably his quirkiest yet.

Former government spin doctor PJ Mara has spoken for the first time about his baby and how the recent birth has changed his life after becoming a father again at 71.

Voters will reject Enda Kenny’s bid to abolish the Seanad and will give the Government a “kick in the arse” in October’s referendum, according to ex-government spin doctor PJ Mara.

A banking inquiry would absolve Fianna Fáil of the blame for the financial crash and boost the party’s image ahead of elections, according to former government spin doctor PJ Mara.

STEPPING across the threshold of PJ Mara’s home in leafy Ballsbridge, Dublin, you feel a certain dread that you’re about to be ripped apart as a journalist.

Rooney Mara has signed up to star in 'Trash'.

Walt Disney, one of cinema’s great innovators and visionaries, famously observed that you should never pander to the whims of your audience.

I’M INTERESTED in the duality of people, says Rooney Mara, of her predilection for caliginous characters.

Here is a summary of each of the short-listed books.

Rooney Mara has hinted 'Lawless' will not start filming until September.

DIRECTOR David Fincher always knew that Rooney Mara, the star of the eagerly-anticipated English-language version of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, was a special talent.

DAVID FINCHER has directed some very good crime films during his distinguished career, including Se7en (1995) and Zodiac (2007), but it’s unlikely The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (18s) will feature on a show-reel of his finest moments when the Academy finally gets around to presenting him with a lifetime achievement award.

Familiarity breeds nagging comparisons rather than contempt in David Fincher’s English-language remake of Niels Arden Oplev’s acclaimed crime thriller, adapted from the best-seller by Stieg Larsson.

ROONEY MARA will become a big screen star on both sides of the Atlantic this weekend, having accepted the poisoned chalice that is Lisbeth Salander, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.