RATHER like the dive suit worn by Dustin Hoffman in The Graduate, Daniel Pennac conveys the story of an entire lifetime from the perspective of his body. 

HELLO! editor Rosie Nixon’s first novel takes place over the course of awards season, taking in the sights and sounds backstage at the Baftas and the Oscars, through the eyes of fashion newcomer Amber Green.

You’re probably used to seeing guide dogs offering a great service to blind people, but have you ever seen a guide horse?

I OFTEN repeat to myself a version of the words “that you are breathing now, this moment, alive in time, at the same time as I, and that I can only hold my breath at the thought,” writes Victoria White.

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Massages, aromatherapy scents and individual chalets and beds — it’s all in a day’s work at Nanci Creedon’s Doggie Day Care Centre. Tommy Barker takes his labrador off for a day’s pampering at the canine creche.

Researchers have opened a centuries-old Florence tomb in a search for remains that could confirm the identity of the woman whose enigmatic smile Leonardo da Vinci immortalised in the “Mona Lisa“, one of the world’s most famous paintings.

Vengeance

In double form two weeks ago, Jim Bolger was on the mark again at Dundalk last night when Kevin Manning provided him with another brace of winners, Naoise and Gort Na Mona.

A MAN as strong and old as some of the trees he’s planted was honoured yesterday for his remarkable service to Irish forestry over 70 years.

SATURDAY saw the natural amphitheatre adjoining Slane castle host the first of the summer’s many music festivals.

Coldplay, Foo Fighters, Black Eyed Peas and Arctic Monkeys will be among the headliners at Oxegen 2011, it was announced tonight.

MIKAEL D’HAGUENET is hard to oppose in the Grade 1 Born na Mona With Nature Novice Chase at Leopardstown this afternoon.

LEOPARDSTOWN yesterday bowed to the inevitable and their St Stephen’s Day card has been postponed to Thursday, December 30.

THE title of Colin Tudge’s new book The Link: Uncovering our Earliest Ancestor is a little misleading. Our earliest ancestor was a bacterium which lived 3.2 billion years ago, whereas the book celebrates the fossilised remains of an animal which lived a mere 47 million years ago.

Bloody Sunday gunshot victim Michael Bradley died suddenly today.

Police officer Max Payne (Mark Wahlberg) returns home to find his wife Michelle (Marianthi Evans) and daughter slain by an intruder.

A HOLLYWOOD heartthrob and internationally-known comedian are set to attract huge crowds to two community events in west Cork tomorrow night.

New Antrim manager Jim McKernan wants retired midfielder Jim Connolly to go back on his decision to quit the inter-county hurling.

An Indonesian man has died of bird flu, raising the country’s human toll to four, officials said today, as international health experts prepared to go house-to-house to search for infected poultry.

A GRINNING Gerhard Schroeder leapt onto a giant stage to thumping music and applause from several thousand Social Democratic (SPD) supporters.

A man doused his girlfriend and three small children with petrol inside a car and set them on fire as he drove, according to a US police spokesman.

THE fingerprints of an American lawyer arrested over the Madrid terror bombings were found on bag containing detonators of the kind used in the March attack, the Spanish government said yesterday.

The fingerprints of an American lawyer arrested over the Madrid terror bombings were found on bag containing detonators of the kind used in the March attack, the Spanish government said today.

ROSE of Tralee Orla Tobin still thought she was dreaming when she woke up yesterday morning.

LEADING members of the political and legal professions came together in Dublin yesterday for the funeral mass of one the country’s best-known barristers, Eamon Leahy.