A bar has been criticised by a parents group after it told Leaving Cert students the pub would be serving alcohol on the morning they received their results.

Swiss food and drink giant Nestle and French cosmetics company L’Oreal have approved a deal to transfer ownership of Swiss dermatology pharmaceuticals company Galderma.

With the final screen instalments of ‘Harry Potter’ and the ‘Twilight’ film series done and dusted, ‘The Mortal Instruments’ film franchise comes at the perfect time for fantasy film fans.

DIRTY tricks and skulduggery at the heart of an election campaign?

Lindsay Lohan has been released on bail from a Los Angeles County jail, just hours after she was sentenced to 120 days for violating her probation.

Actress Lindsay Lohan pleaded not guilty to felony grand theft of a US$2,500 (€1,827) necklace - the most serious charge yet filed against the troubled starlet who has wrestled with drug and alcohol abuse for years.

A judge sentenced Lindsay Lohan to three months in jail and ordered her to undergo a rehabilitation programme after finding the troubled actress had broken the terms of her probation in a 2007 drug case.

Hollywood star Lindsay Lohan arrived in court today for a probation hearing that could end with her either heading for jail or her next movie role.

RECORDINGS of L’Oreal heiress Liliane Bettencourt’s conversations about political dealings and Swiss bank accounts may play a key role at a trial over whether the 87-year-old was manipulated into giving a friend about €1 billion in gifts.

A judge doubled Lindsay Lohan’s bail to $200,000 (€167,000) after ruling that the actress broke the terms of her release with an adverse report by an ankle alcohol bracelet.

Two directors couldn’t bring this mixed-up plonker home safely, nor could a curiously cast Meyers bring off a character suffering from multi-personality disorder since he has been given no chance by a dreadful script to show a personality of any kind.

It’s wonderful how Travolta keeps reinventing himself, here as a Bruce Willis-'Die Hard', swaggering, wise-cracking action man.

A FRENCH family drama worthy of a soap opera landed in court yesterday, as the daughter of France’s richest women questioned whether her mother has lost her mind and frittered away a fortune on a man known for befriending high-society celebrities.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers heads for Belfast to team up with Kevin Bacon in a new comedy to be shot in the city.

SNIPER John Allen Muhammad refused to utter any last words as he was executed, taking to the grave answers about why and how he plotted the killings of 10 people that terrorised the Washington DC area for three weeks in October 2002.

A sniper who terrorised America during a three-week killing spree in 2002 was today executed by lethal injection.

A sniper who terrorised America during a three-week killing spree in 2002 is due to be executed today after an 11th-hour bid to block his death failed.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers has reportedly checked into rehab in a bid to kick his drink demons once and for all.

Irish actor Jonathan Rhys Meyers is a dud when it comes to love - insisting he doesn't believe in romance.

Stephen King has served up a fright for 'Twilight' author Stephenie Meyers insisting she "can't write worth a darn".

President Mary McAleese and Arts Minister Martin Cullen today congratulated Irish actors Gabriel Byrne and Colin Farrell on winning Golden Globe awards.

Former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern could be rubbing shoulders with a host of Hollywood stars after being shortlisted for a top television award, it emerged today.

Hollywood star Jonathan Rhys-Meyers received a royal welcome from Trinity College students at the weekend.

Hollywood heartthrob Jonathan Rhys Meyers is set to get a royal welcome from Trinity College students in coming weeks.

Actor Jonathan Rhys Meyers kicked his alcohol addiction after the death of his mother - because her untimely demise gave him the determination to do more with his life.

WHEN it comes to sailing, size matters. The bigger the sail, the faster the boat.

Cork-born Jonathan Rhys Meyers leads the cast of the runaway TV drama series 'The Tudors' as they prepare for the shooting of the third series at Wicklow’s Ardmore Studios in June-October for a 2009 release.

These are hectic times for Cork actor Cillian Murphy. The lad can’t stop working.

Public order charges against troubled Hollywood star Jonathan Rhys-Meyers have been dropped before a court.

The mother of Hollywood star Jonathan Rhys Meyers has died after a short illness, it was confirmed today.

Cork actor Jonathan Rhys Meyers has been arrested by gardaí after a clash with airport staff.

Lindsay Lohan agreed to serve one day behind bars after pleading guilty to drunken driving and cocaine charges. But that is hard time compared to what fellow bad girl Nicole Richie served for driving under the influence.

Actor Jonathan Rhys Meyers is looking forward to becoming a father after spending time with doting dads Tom Cruise and Will Smith.

DOCTORS in Utah completed reconstructive surg- ery on one of two formerly conjoined twins yesterday after a 16-hour operation separated the girls, born fused at the midsection.

Irish actor Jonathan Rhys Meyers is the new face of Hugo Boss.

Doctors in the US have successfully separated four-year-old twin sisters born fused at the midsection, with just one kidney and one set of legs, and were continuing with reconstruction surgery.

SURGEONS in Salt Lake City, Utah, will try to separate two four-year-old sisters whose bodies are fused at the mid-section in an operation that could take 14 to 30 hours.

Surgeons in Salt Lake City, Utah, will try to separate two four-year-old sisters whose bodies are fused at the mid-section in an operation that could take 14 to 30 hours.

Irish star Jonathan Rhys Meyers says he doesn't look like King Henry VIII, but he's looking forward to playing him anyway … in the lavish mini-series The Tudors.

NI-born Sam Neill joins Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Henry Cavill and Jeremy Northam in the up-coming costume series, The Tudors, with Meyers playing Henry VIII.

Irish actor Jonathan Rhys Meyers has given up alcohol after becoming addicted to working out at his local gym.

HOLLYWOOD star Scarlett Johansson was given the red carpet treatment yesterday at the premier of Woody Allen’s eagerly awaited London film Match Point.

Hollywood starlet Scarlett Johansson and Irish co-star Jonathan Rhys-Meyers stepped out at the Cannes Film Festival tonight at the premiere of their latest film.

Another Brit film set in the world, now a heavily clichéd one, of London gangsters and based on the familiar theme of revenge for the death of a sibling.