Every year the programme attracts thousands of viewers and stands as their most popular special, next to the Toy Show of course.

A Dublin company manager has told a court the value of his home fell by €90,000 after a neighbour cut down seven 50ft-high trees close to their common boundary and strongly trimmed back four others.

Irish people have always had a love hate relationship with alcohol and none less than our artists. As a new book is written about Bridie Gallagher, Suzanne Harrington examines why hugely talented women take refuge in drink.

Unravel the mystery of Margot Roth Spiegelman.

Cara Delevingne wasn't cast in 'Paper Towns' because of her successful modelling career.

She’s feisty, but she’s her own woman, writes Susan Griffin of the actress and model about to

Concentration camp survivor Tomi Reichental has turned his childhood horror into something positive, speaking out against racism and tracking down Nazis, writes Ailín Quinlan

Check out our spoiler-free guide to the best of tonight's TV.

If ever there was a time to visit the Garden County of Wicklow, then it is in early November as woodlands and forest swap summer green for the unspeakably beautiful autumnal palette, one of nature’s finest shows and a most exquisite closing act to the wild food foraging season. 

Country legend Margo has debunked the long-running rumour that she is Daniel O’Donnell’s mother.

Irish country star Margo O’Donnell has revealed that she suffered a horrific sex attack as a young singer touring Ireland in the 1970s.

Cara Delevingne is to star in the upcoming John Green adaptation 'Paper Towns'.

Hundreds of mourners attended the funeral Mass of Mairead Moran at St Eoghan's Church in Kilmoganny, Co Kilkenny today.

The funeral of Mairead Moran will get underway in Kilkenny at 2pm this afternoon.

A psychiatric assessment has been ordered on a 27-year-old man accused of murdering a shop manager last Thursday.

Opening in Los Angeles in 2154, Elysium (15A) offers an especially dystopian vision of Earth’s future.

Majella O’Donnell is being treated for breast cancer and her singer husband has asked for fans’ prayers — but not cards or letters.

If you’ve ever wondered how Hollywood actors would fare in a real apocalyptic scenario (nope, me neither), then This is the End (16s) may well be your perfect movie.

Working to the principle that you don’t mess with a winning formula, directors Pierre Coffin and Chris Renaud deliver more warm-hearted thrills and slapstick spills in the action-packed sequel to their delightful 2010 computer-animated adventure.

The Sam Maguire was last night walked across the border from Fermanagh into its new home for the next 12 months in Donegal.

Family and friends of Daniel O’Donnell gathered for what the singer said was the biggest honour of his career.

"Are you sure you’re not a Russian spy or something?” The man asking me this knows full well I can’t be, but he sounds hopeful all the same. I’m in a coffee shop on Paul Street in Cork and two guys I know socially have been staring at me for the last half an hour. I can’t say I blame them. The last time they saw me I was a crop-haired brunette, now they’re talking to a platinum blonde.

The only celebrity to be interviewed by all four Late Late Show presenters said he hopes the RTÉ show will go on forever.

The mother of Mary Boyle, who has been missing for 35 years this weekend, said she still thinks of the missing six-year-old every day and the pain never goes away.

Rafael Nadal’s bout of cramp following his victory over David Nalbandian at the US Open was likely to have been caused by dehydration and the heat at Flushing Meadows, according to a medical expert.

THE music will sound again this month in a remote village dance hall made famous as the Ballroom of Romance by author William Trevor.

An animated treat that’s packed with wonderfully off-centre characters (going down to the supporting roles), a battery of evil devices, laughter from the downright silly to the downright falling down and rolling in the aisles … you couldn’t ask for more.

Russell Brand turned up at the European premiere of his new film, 'Despicable Me' - only to duck out before the film even started.

Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer direct 'Meet The Spartans' (Cert 12, 82 mins, Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment,€25.52) an interminable spoof of the sword and sandals romp.

Five decomposed bodies found in a California home are three generations of a Turkish family, police said today.

THREE Cork people who founded a charity to help an east African tribe are to fly to Tanzania next month to undertake an aid project for the tribe.

IT was billed as the Not The Rose of Tralee evening — and with TD Dr Jim McDaid waddling along the catwalk in diving suit and fins and singer Daniel O’Donnell almost baring all, it was a far cry from the world-famous Co Kerry event.

Anne Frank’s cousin gave up custody today of thousands of letters, photographs and documents that archivists say will reveal details about the background of the teenage diarist who became a symbol of the Holocaust.

Wayne Rooney will not be able to kick a ball for at least eight weeks, according to a leading physiotherapist.

The great-grandson of Victorian Poet Laureate Alfred Lord Tennyson has been found stabbed to death in his bed, it emerged today.

IN one church a yellow, toy digger was placed before the altar, symbolising the life of a young man tragically taken before his time.

DANIEL O’Donnell cried in the chapel.

THE blushing bride was late for her big day — but it had nothing to do with being fashionable.