Tommy Barker, property editor, assesses the appetite for property in West Cork

Norton is an Irishman, but he is also one of the best-known faces in Britain, where he lives. It would be interesting to hear his take on Brexit. He delivered it with his usual frankness and humour, says Alison O'Connor.

As the future relationship of Ireland and Britain is battled over in the fraught anterooms of Westminster and Brussels, this week also saw an escalation in the real Anglo-Irish conflict of our time.

The only problem was that he fancied his physiotherapist and was conscious of his hairy feet.

Chat show king, radio host, agony uncle and now an accomplished author – how does Graham Norton juggle it all? It’s easy, he tells Vickie Maye, he just rocks up and does the job.

The Cure are sold out already, but Lana Del Rey has also been added to the summer roster for Malahide Castle in what has been a big week for gig announcements.

Chatshow king Graham Norton is to team up with one of the stars from the hit TV series The Young Offenders to host a special fundraiser in a west Cork village.

Detectives are conducting detailed checks to see if killer Mark Hennessy knew his victim, Jastine Valdez, in some way or knew her movements.

A fund is entitled to judgment for €3.89m against members of a partnership over default on repayment of borrowings to build 16 apartments at Mill Race, Bunclody, Co Wexford.

And Tom Hanks stole a line from our Late Late Show

James Norton dodges the 007 rumours as he tells Gemma Dunn about his role in crime drama McMafia, which begins on BBC One tonight

Friday nights have offically been reinstated.

Graham Norton has revealed that the late Star Wars legend, Carrie Fisher, was feeling ill before her last-ever interview, on his BBC chat show, but continued because of their close friendship.

Athenry schoolboy David Kitt could become the youngest winner of the AIG Irish Amateur Close since Rory McIlroy in 2006 after cruising into the semi-finals in impressive style on a day of shocks at Galway Golf Club.

Morgan O’Driscoll’s sale is on view all weekend, writes Des O’Sullivan

Graham Norton may be the BBC’s third-highest earning presenter, but the welcome he received in Bantry for the West Cork Literary Festival proved that locals still consider him their number one.

Liam Neeson, Stephen Fry and Graham Norton have called for the introduction of same-sex marriage in Northern Ireland ahead of a planned demonstration there.

From one legendary Irish broadcaster to another.

Mrs Brown’s Boys star Brendan O’Carroll has said he “almost killed Margaret Thatcher” when he mixed up salt and sugar while working as a waiter.

The HSE has come under fire over the €251,000 it spent over the past two years to produce an internal magazine for staff.

Gareth Reid has won a career-enhancing commission to paint chat show host Graham Norton, with the end product to hang in the National Gallery of Ireland.

Gary Barlow heads up BBC One’s new talent show which promises five young men a job rather than just five minutes of fame, writes Ella Walker

From Skibbereen to Rio to sharing a couch with Micheal Fassbender — it seems nothing short of global domination will do for the O’Donovan brothers now.

Now, what you think of that?

The Cork-native has claimed that bosses are keen to see him axed, either him or Match of the Day host, Gary Lineker.

The 42-year-old was chatting about his former rebellious days before leaving everyone speechless as he told a very NSFW story.

BBC radio and TV presenter Graham Norton will become a quizmaster in West Cork this week to assist a peninsula community.

‘I didn’t give it away, Joe earned it’

The Ukrainian singer who pulled off a surprising victory at the Eurovision Song Contest said: “If you sing about truth, it can really touch people” after she defeated musical and political rival Russia.

Graham Norton will present the Baftas on Sunday, the Eurovision in May, and he has written a novel, all in addition to his weekly chatshow, writes Gemma Dunn

Chat-show host and comedian Graham Norton remains Ireland’s best-paid broadcaster, earning a whopping €3.14m (£2.52m) in fees last year.

Chatshow king Graham Norton last night made a special appearance in Cork to host a tribute concert for one of his biggest fans — a teenage heart transplant patient who died just over a year ago.

A broadcasting master who made it look effortless, part of the fabric of the BBC and the head of the ‘Murphia’ in the UK media industry — colleagues and friends of the late Terry Wogan yesterday acknowledged the Limerick native’s 50-year contribution to the UK airwaves. TV host Noel Edmonds said “a true master has gone”.

Chris Donoghue co-presents Newstalk Breakfast from 7am to 10am. He is an ambassador for First Fortnight, a charity aimed at challenging mental health stigma, and will speak at Proclamation, a music and talk event on New Year’s Day in Christ Church Cathedral, as part of First Fortnight festival in association with NYF Dublin. NYF Dublin’s three-day citywide festival spans the new year period from today until January 1. See www.NYFDublin.com 

Recently I gave over my column to the joys of sherry and wrote about how well it goes with food. This week it is the turn of port. Port and sherry are drinks we wrongly associate with Christmas when in fact they work all year round.

Adele was so worried about living up to the success of 21 that she nearly quit music for good.

Adele is not allowed to send her own tweets because of her “drunk tweeting”.