If Carlsberg did father’s day presents.

"THERE’S a guy works down the chip shop swears he’s Elvis,” sang the late Kirsty McColl.

Well, there's only so many people that could be.

While the new Eircode system may have some us flummoxed, Irish posties are able to make do with limited information when delivering letters.

Their motto is “dare to dream”, and, despite the disappointing scoreline, the thousands of Northern Ireland supporters literally danced out of the fan zone in Belfast.

THOUGH Michael Lyster suffered a serious heart attack in June, he is not about to start fretting about his health.

Bob Skillington shows off his Mini Mayfair, something he was able to spend a bit of free time on restoring it to its original glory.

This letter addressed to ’Séan who sings like Neil Diamond’ got delivered

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I was home to Cork for a funeral in recent days. It was a profoundly emotional week and I was prompted to write my first ever blog post on the bus up to Dublin. It seems to have resonated with a lot of Corkonians, both living there and living abroad.

University Concert Hall, Limerick

Soul’s James Brown is the latest singer to have his life story filmed, in a ‘rags to riches’ genre that began with the first ‘talkie’ in 1927.

Check out our guide to the best TV to watch on this rain-soaked evening.

In the fullness of time it may well emerge that one of the many anticipated negative knock-on effects of the Garth Brooks saga will be a reluctance by headline acts to perform in Croke Park. What appears certain is that a cap on concerts at GAA headquarters in future years will be rigorously enforced.

ENGLAND: A holidaymaker ran up a phone bill of over £2,600 (€3,146) after downloading a Neil Diamond album while abroad.

With the death of Hollywood star Mickey Rooney this week, Ryle Dwyer examines the story of Boys Town, the Nebraska home that propelled Irish priest Edward Flanagan to international fame.

The late, great Luke Kelly was the Neil Diamond of folk singing.

I miss the old Lansdowne Road. There, I said it.

Ger Loughnane was right. Last Sunday night he called on one of the rich phrases from his beloved Gaeilge to suitably articulate what had transpired earlier. ‘Lá dar saol a bhí ann.’

After 24 hours of the nation holding its breath, we can finally all breathe a sigh of relief. New Orleans rose Molly Molloy Gambel is delighted to be getting married — and she can see the funny side of her initial live response to the proposal.

Aha! The long-awaited Alan Partridge movie is finally here. And it’s textbook Partridge.

THE voice down the phone from Houston, Texas, is as familiar as a favourite uncle, an easy drawl heard countless times over the airwaves singing any of his multitude of hits.

Neil Diamond is donating some of this week’s sales from Sweet Caroline to Boston Marathon blast victims after the tune became a source of comfort following the bomb attack.

Rock legends Steven Tyler and Mick Fleetwood have convinced a Hawaii Senate committee to approve a bill to protect celebrities from intrusive paparazzi.

Karaoke fans rejected the traditional sentiments of ‘Auld Lang Syne’ on New Year’s Eve and saw in 2013 ‘Gangnam Style’, according to a poll.

Once famous as the location for Wicker Man, Scottish village Wigtown is now known for its book festival, says Carl Dixon

I never expected to be a performer. I can’t dance and have the stage presence of an emotionally abused swan.

The West is very much awake for The Menu as he hightails it off down to Heir Island, West Cork, for Firehouse Bread’s splendid wood-fired oven bread-making course.

Hal David, whose simple, heartfelt lyrics made a perfect fit with Burt Bacharach’s quirky melodies and resulted in dozens of hit songs, including 'Do You Know The Way To San Jose' and 'Raindrops Keep Fallin’ On My Head', has died at 91.

Concert promoters MCD Productions returned to profit last year after recording an 8% increase in the number of concert tickets sold to 1.54m.

Comedian Frankie Boyle will have shows in Cork and Dublin next December.

No matter how much we love them, there are times when most of us crave the peace and quiet of a child-free environment.

ONE of 10 children, Gabriel Walsh was brought up in poverty.

Meryl Streep may have her next film assignment and Neil Diamond thanked the namesake of his famous tune 'Sweet Caroline' as they joined other luminaries from Broadway, jazz and classical music to receive the Kennedy Centre Honours.

Neil Diamond has announced that he is engaged to be married for the third time.

THE opening up of Croke Park by the GAA to soccer and rugby in 2007 was universally hailed as a positive step in helping to bring together the different traditions on this island.

SUPERMODEL Linda Evangelista once jokingly said: “We don’t get out of bed for less than for less than $10,000 a day.”