The best Ireland's country music scene has to offer will be lining up for this Friday's Late Late Show Country Special in what has been dubbed a 'family affair'.

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

Beleaguered former billionaire Sean Quinn was an outspoken guest of honour at the launch of the Ballinamore Family Festival in Co Leitrim yesterday.

THE night Mick Wallace announced, on Vincent Browne’s TV programme, that he was morphing into a politician, I was seated immediately to his left at the big table.

AN elderly man yesterday admitted the attempted rape of a 92-year-old friend of his estranged wife.