Presenter of TV3’s Animal A&E and soon-to-be-broadcast Dog Tales, Andrea Hayes is married to David Torpey and they have one daughter, Brooke, aged 5. 

Like Hillary Clinton and Margaret Thatcher, both Merkel and May married into success, Margaret Hickey 

Rainbow in the Cloud

"Comedy is there to make you aware of your humanity."

American television network PBS creates a series of animated films, called Blank on Blank, which are used to illustrate rarely-heard interviews with leading figures like Maya Angelou, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and John Lennon.

Game of Thrones star Liam Cunningham tells Caroline Delaney how he’s happy to be filming in Belfast rather than sunny Croatia or Spain as

Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams has defended some of his posts on social media after they were criticised by rape victim Maíria Cahill.

MAYA ANGELOU, the American writer who died recently wrote ‘History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived but if faced with courage need not be lived again’.

Maya Angelou was gratified, but not surprised by her extraordinary fortune.

Author and poet Maya Angelou, who rose from poverty, segregation and violence to become a force on stage, screen and the printed page, has died. She was 86.

IF I appear to be breathless it’s because I’m walking as I’m talking,” says showbusiness legend Red Hurley.

In 2002 author Michael Quinn lost his 23-year-old daughter Veronica in a car crash. Here, he writes about spending another Christmas without her.

More than 90 world leaders are in South Africa for commemoration ceremonies in honour of Nelson Mandela, the man who went from prisoner to president armed with nothing more than his conscience, his courage, and a steely resolve to achieve freedom for his people.

AT A RECENT garden party in Áras an Uachtaráin President Michael D Higgins spoke of the “formidable Mary Coughlan”, and so for the purposes of this interview we’re going to borrow his words, because try as we might to come up with a better opening description we can’t.

US President Barack Obama can expect some sweet serenades at his inauguration ceremony, with hit-makers Beyonce, Kelly Clarkson and James Taylor on tap to perform some of the most patriotic songs.

LIKE many American presidents before him, Barack Obama never knowingly plays down his Irish roots.

Barack Obama honoured a predecessor, Germany’s leader and artists, athletes, civil rights activists, humanitarians and others with the Presidential Medal of Freedom for contributions to society that he said spoke to “who we are as a people”.

Kanye West thinks of himself as a “true poet”.

Rihanna will welcome a “new era” when her new album comes out.

BARACK OBAMA topped a Clinton in another contest on Sunday — the Grammys.

Irish rocker Bono has become the first guest editor of 'Variety' magazine, and has made his mark by giving the July issue of the US publication 20 different covers.

Hundreds gathered to mourn Yolanda “Yoki” Denise King, the eldest daughter of the American civil rights campaigner Rev Martin Luther King Jr.

This Monday morning, in common with most email users, I will weed my way through offers of shareholding in companies so hot, they’ve doubled in value over the weekend, through offers of prescription painkillers sent in plain wrappers and through promises that my sex life will be vastly improved once I buy the product guaranteed to give me a bigger penis.

Reunited at last in death, Coretta Scott King was laid to rest beside the tomb of her husband after a stirring funeral with 10,000 mourners that was both lyrical and mournful, and at times political.

FOUR American presidents joined senators, celebrities and an estimated 10,000 mourners yesterday to say goodbye to Coretta Scott King.

Four US presidents, senators, celebrities and thousands of mourners filled a Lithonia, Georgia church today to say goodbye to Coretta Scott King, praised by President George Bush as “one of the most admired Americans of our time.”

CORETTA SCOTT KING, who turned a life shattered by the assassination of her husband Martin Luther King into one devoted to enshrining his legacy of human rights and equality, has died at the age of 78.