A six-year-old girl, who was left scarred for life after she cut her chin in a hotel swimming pool, has been awarded €21,000 damages in the Circuit Civil Court.

Reviving a show that originally flopped on Broadway is one of the best things Michael Ball has ever done, he tells Ed Power.

I am trying to establish the house phone’s whereabouts. 

Susan Fletcher

Jazz album:Marius Neset/Trondheim Jazz Orchestra

The Danish zoo which hit headlines last month for euthanising one of its giraffes has put down a further four animals - the lions it fed the giraffe to.

There has been a huge outcry against the killing of a giraffe at Copenhagen zoo, and the feeding of its carcass to lions, while people watched.

Just days after a Copenhagen zoo sparked global outrage by putting down a healthy giraffe named Marius, another Danish zoo says it may do the same thing to a giraffe with the same name.

What have Danes got against giraffes called Marius?

Danes have defended the killing of a healthy giraffe at Copenhagen zoo that triggered outrage after it was skinned and fed to lions in front of visitors.

Officials at Copenhagen Zoo in Denmark say they received death threats after the zoo killed a two-year-old giraffe and fed its remains to lions.

Copenhagen Zoo turned down offers from other zoos and €500,000 from a private individual to save the life of a healthy giraffe before killing and slaughtering it in front of children to follow inbreeding recommendations made by a European association.

Copenhagen Zoo has killed a healthy giraffe because of rules imposed by a European zoo association to deter inbreeding despite a wave of online protests to save it.

IT’S 9pm. I’m in Sligo, at my sister’s house, where my siblings and their families have gathered for the weekend to celebrate my mother’s birthday.

It could be Ireland.

A 26-year-old man has been remanded in custody after he was charged last night with the double killing of a Lithuanian woman and her daughter in Co Kerry.

HOME, 9am, in the kitchen. It is the last morning of my sister’s visit, and I’m sitting at the table with my nieces and nephew.

Tom Hooper, Oscar-winning director of The King’s Speech, dreamed a dream of immortalising Claude-Michel Schonberg and Alain Boublil’s powerhouse musical without the conventional safety net of lip-synching.

Hollywood hasn’t diminished the magic of Les Miserables, says Marjorie Brennan

THE gentle swell and curve of west Cork is another world, I think to myself as I drive through bleak landscape north-west of Tuam.

Justin Bieber has been offered a role in 'Les Miserables'.

A BROTHER of model Irma Mali’s former boyfriend, the late Marius Simanaitis, has secured a High Court order quashing an inquest verdict that Mr Simanaitis committed suicide with a handgun and a new inquest has been ordered by Mr Justice Peter Charleton.

A sell-out, one-off performance of West End hit 'Les Miserables' starring Matt Lucas is to be seen across the world - after a deal to beam it into cinemas.

Hearts are in talks with Republic of Ireland striker Stephen Elliott.

Racist comments were shouted at two Polish mechanics before they were stabbed in their heads with a screwdriver outside their home, a murder trial has heard today.

GOKDENIZ KARADENIZ stuck a second-half winner as Rubin Kazan claimed a shock Champions League victory over reigning European champions Barcelona at the Nou Camp last night.

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Shane Meadows’s new film is a companion piece to the superb 'This Is England', crafting another coming of age tale, this time set against the backdrop of the titular area of central London buffered by Euston and King’s Cross mainline railway stations.

FOUR jumping clears from Ireland’s eventers in yesterday’s cross-country phase at Hong Kong moved them up two places to eighth in the 11-country competition.

TAOISEACH Bertie Ahern seemed to accept “bung after bung” in the 1990s, Sinn Féin TD Aengus Ó Snodaigh said.

GARDAÍ have called on two teenage girls who were with the young men who murdered two Polish men last Saturday to come forward.

Marius Thorp has been tipped for the top by five-time British Open winner Tom Watson.

Springbok coach Jake White brushed aside injury worries as he handed out three new caps for Saturday’s first Test against Ireland in Bloemfontein.

Springbok coach Rudolf Straeuli has made two changes to his starting XV for Saturday’s second Test against Scotland in Johannesburg.