Hollywood actor George Clooney plans to return to Ireland next year following a brief visit to meet his cousins over the Easter break.

Hollywood A-lister George Clooney along with his wife Amal and two children spent several days of Easter in Laois getting to know his Irish cousins.

Number eight Uzair Cassiem scored two tries as Scarlets grabbed the bonus point victory they needed to keep their Guinness PRO14 play-off hopes alive in a 42-0 thrashing of Zebre.

Nicholas O’Halloran began to give up on getting the double lung transplant he needed. Now he is living a life of hope, he tells Helen O’Callaghan.

A 42-year old married Co Clare man admitted to gardaí that he is sexually attracted to babies and toddlers aged under three and sought out pornographic material of babies online.

Johann van Graan’s glass remained half-full as he argued Munster are still very much in Guinness PRO14 title contention despite defeat to the Scarlets in Llanelli.

Helen O’Callaghan talks to filmmaker Nicholas Ryan-Purcell about his new documentary and growing up with Asperger’s syndrome.

Ulster 15 Scarlets 13

A young woman pregnant with her first child says she and her husband have been left with no option but to live in their car after a court order for the removal of their caravan from council land on the southside of Cork city.

As far as preparation goes for your biggest game in a decade, a 50-point hammering is not ideal.

ELLA Van Poucke’s career took a big leap forward last July when she emerged as the “Golden Star” of the prestigious Premio Chigiana held in Siena in Italy, writes Cathy Desmond.

Former Scotland striker Charlie Nicholas has labelled the Scottish Football Association an "embarrassment" over its failed pursuit of Michael O’Neill.

When farmer Joe O’Connell first saw a piece of land in Kilkenny 12 years ago, he knew it was special.

The death has been announced of Heide Roche, the wife of the late Stanley Roche, who was a director of one of Ireland’s best-known retail dynasties.

No one was sober on the night of an alleged sexual assault by a 53-year-old man on another male, aged 44, a female witness, one of the three people in the bed, told the Circuit Criminal Court in Tralee yesterday.

When Ford was described by UCC President Professor Patrick G. O’Shea as “a Cork company with an American subsidiary”, it was a remark that perfectly captured the light-hearted mood during the visit of William Clay Ford Jr.

The great grandson of Henry Ford has hailed as "hugely meaningful" a visit by some of his family back to the ancestral home of the industrialist in Ballinascarty in West Cork.

For anyone whizzing by Ballinascarthy on the N71, it’s hard to miss the gleaming stainless steel statue of an iconic Model T Ford.

The victim of a night club glass attack carried out by the ex-partner of murderer, John Dundon, Ciara Killeen (aged 32) has said that the Limerick woman should have got jail for the attack.

A murder accused was stressed and crying while a search was underway for her housemate and former partner, witnesses have told her trial.

After a period of prolonged antisocial behaviour during which the windscreen of his car was smashed twice, a middle-aged law abiding Limerick man snapped and in a state of drink-fuelled delusion tried to set fire to the home of a completely innocent neighbour, a court heard.

Haters Back Off, featuring Colleen Ballinger in Miranda Sings mode, is now on Netflix.

 

A 20-year-old son of a convicted gangland murderer yesterday received a three-year prison sentence after telling three teen soccer fans that he would kill them.

A 77-year-old paedophile lured his then six-year-old niece with the promise of biscuits to his home where he sexually assaulted her.

A son of a convicted gangland murderer terrified teen soccer supporters in Shannon when he held a knife up to their necks during a daylight robbery.

Carrigaline 0-13 St Nicholas 0-5: As old as the GAA itself, Carrigaline have had to wait a long time to play a Cork county SFC game.

BESTSELLING cooking author Annabel Karmel is one of those exceptional people who managed to turn the awful tragedy of losing her first child at just 13 weeks into something positive.

The family of a fisherman, whose body was found in the River Shannon at Mungret, have said they have many unanswered questions as to how he died, despite a Garda investigation which found no clear evidence of foul play in his death.

Is that wine worth its price? This is a question I am frequently asked, mainly regarding expensive Bordeaux.

Mark Zuckerberg and his wife’s pledge to give away virtually all of their $45bn (€42.5bn) in Facebook shares, has set a new philanthropic benchmark by committing their massive fortune to charitable causes while still in their early 30s.

Carrigaline (Cork) 2-8 Oola (Limerick) 0-5: Second-half goals from Simon O’Brien and David Drake were the key for Carrigaline as they set up a Munster Club IFC decider against St Mary’s/Cahirciveen in two weeks.

Carrigaline 0-12 St Michael’s 0-11: At times, it must have seemed that senior football would remain an elusive aspiration for Carrigaline.

Michael Meaney first took over what was then the Carrigaline IFC side in 2007.

Nine years ago, Paul O’Connell assured the BBC that international careers could no longer last as long as his would do.

Following last weekend’s victory for Crosshaven’s Peter McCann in Kinsale at the ISA Junior All-Ireland Sailing Championships, attention switches to Dun Laoghaire this morning where Anthony O’Leary is set to defend his 2014 title at the National Yacht Club.