I’ve always done what I wanted to do. I’ve just been very lucky. My husband John is the more patient and nicer person.

“Lord help the world if everybody took to doing the right thing,” says Mrs Warren (Sorcha Cusack) in the Gate Theatre’s new production of George Bernard Shaw’s play, Mrs Warren’s Profession.

A Woman of No Importance is Wilde at his best — and full of resonance for modern audiences, writes Carl Dixon

Actor David Kelly got one final standing ovation as his coffin was carried out of his local parish church at the end of his funeral Mass in Dublin yesterday.

A MAN who used Facebook to groom young teenage boys, some of whom he later molested, was allowed to continue using the social networking site yesterday after a judge decided banning him from it would be unfair.

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THE late writer, Hugh Leonard, received the traditional applause of the theatre world at his funeral mass in Dalkey yesterday at what mourners were told was his “final curtain call”.

The extinction of playwright and columnist Hugh Leonard’s dazzling energy has left Ireland a poorer place, his funeral heard today.

PATRICK MASON is the number one man at the Rose of Tralee festival after he was voted best escort by the roses.