Director Sofia Coppola discusses tackling a remake with her new movie ‘The Beguiled’, reuniting with her muse Kirsten Dunst, writes Laura Harding

Kya deLongchamps investigates the history of ‘insufflating’ and describes the manners and paraphernalia attached to the taking of ground tobacco.

Providing a prisoner who had carried out 150 attacks on staff with cake and minerals on his birthday and €65 for “a party” was described as outrageous by the president of the Prison Officers’ Association.

The scale of Ireland’s food poverty crisis was laid bare last night with figures showing the country’s first food bank has distributed over 80 tonnes of surplus food to the needy across Munster since November.

Here are 10 of our favourite places to buy cake in the French capital, Paris.

I’m delighted to write to you, Santy, and warn you, as you head south, to bear in mind that in Ireland the clocks have been turned back 167 years.

Considering he had blown enough fuses in his time to put the lights out all over Limerick, Jamie Cudmore was always liable to leave Munster in a dark place.

As one Cabinet Minister put it: "Jaysus Eric, I think our cover’s been blown."

Ikea has come up with a mirror that pays you a compliment, thanks to ingenious technology that can ‘sense’ what you look like, how you’re dressed and then tailors its comment to suit.

Fiann Ó Nualláin is on a campaign to reassert the high nutritional value of one of the world’s top five super foods — the humble potato.

Even though the catalogue is still in the course of preparation, the Irish Examiner can today offer a sneak preview of treasures from Bantry House to be sold by Edinburgh-based auctioneers Lyon & Turnbull on October 21.

The way that Government approached the introduction of water charges clearly points to an administration intent on reaching even deeper into our pockets and mopping up whatever money it can to sustain itself as it seeks re-election in 2016.

Jobs Minister Richard Bruton is as out of touch as Marie Antoinette for insisting people must pay for water because they get "Ballygowan-standard" supplies pumped into their homes, opposition TDs claim.

INTERNATIONAL interest in the October auction of contents from Bantry House will centre on tapestries, icons and furniture.

THE surprise is how long a backlash took to come. When I was a child in a heat-hazed suburb to the north of Palo Alto, almost no one had heard the term Silicon Valley.

Tallow Horse Fair by Arthur Maderson at Woodwards in Cork next Wednesday is estimated at €5,000-€6,000.

The 31st Dáil resumes today and in a very short time — two months — it will mark the third anniversary of the establishment of Enda Kenny’s coalition.

Sports stadiums can be drab places long after the final whistle has blown, when all that humanity has trickled away into the surrounding streets and countryside and left behind are the memories, the cold and the detritus of a day well spent.

Madonna celebrated her 55th birthday with a French Revolution-themed bash.

A 46-year-old student claims to have only eaten porridge for 138 days.

This definitely wasn’t your typical removal job.

It began as a coffee table book — ex-Vogue editor Carine Roitfeld took photos of models, actors, and musicians, all wearing Chanel's classic coat. Now, the Little Black Jacket is a major exhibition, opening in London next month.

This 21st century cottage is a masterclass in design, says Rose Martin

Big spenders thronged a marquee in Co Waterford yesterday for the auction of contents from Mount Congreve.

It’s been labelled the sale of the century and judging by the level of interest, tomorrow’s auction won’t disappoint.

It is hard to fathom the utter disconnect between the Government and, in particular, its Labour wing with the economic reality we are mired in.

FIRST PYJAMAS, then underwear and now rollers — is there anything Irish girls won’t wear in public?

Chain Gang

A WEST Cork town is planning to beat the budget blues next week by “eating cake” — Marie Antoinette-style.

MUCH and all as we want to be positive, government really goes out of its way to make being positive almost an impossibility.

MARIE Antoinette tottered to the guillotine in hers, Marilyn Monroe claimed all women should be grateful to whoever invented them, Victoria Beckham says she “can’t concentrate” without hers and Holly Willoughby even wears them to bed.

IMAGINE falling into an Alice-type wonderland of guilt-free shopping.

A long-awaited French corruption trial has opened with former President Jacques Chirac as the star defendant.

A new book looks behind the innocence of nursery rhymes, says Kerrie Kennedy.

ENVIRONMENT Minister John Gormley put on a petulant performance on RTÉ’s Prime Time (January 7) when Miriam O’Callaghan asked him about his own duties and those of others during the recent floods and blizzards.

The Government set up a task force in January of this year to tackle unemployment. It consists of officials from a number of Government departments, along with nominees from various elements of the social partnership.

I am no fan of early KOs — and I only have a short stroll around to the ground. It seems that very few Blackburn fans bothered to make a crack-of-dawn schlep down from the north-west, but for all those Gooners travelling from far and wide, who might’ve been forced to forsake their Sunday lie-ins, their efforts were well rewarded, with a veritable smorgasbord of a footballing Sunday brunch.

IT was a case of smart economy, dumb Government yesterday.

OH, the petty bourgeoisie can be so damn... petty.

DURING the Second World War blitz on London, the present Queen Elizabeth’s mother was urged to remove herself and her children to the safety of a country seat for the duration of the bombing.

THE recession is good news for the “so-called gap” between rich and poor, a minister claimed last night.

As A result of inflation the cost of the typical weekly trolley at a supermarket has increased by 9.5%, which comes to an extra €400 for year.