Roz Crowley takes a walk down memory lane and looks back at the Mountain Dew, Ireland’s first ever rock festival.

Sharon Corrs’ kids had no idea their mum was a music icon – until the band made a comeback, she tells Lorraine Wylie.

Yesterday saw the release date of a film by Kilkenny-based Cartoon Saloon, entitled Song of the Sea, which earlier this year was nominated for an Academy Award. 

There was a huge upset in last night’s final of the Bank of Ireland Produce Stakes in Clonmel last night as Ballybough Mondo made all the running to land the spoils for Murt Leahy and owner Pat Carroll, Kilkenny.

Ballydoyle Honey’s domination of the bitches’ division continued on Saturday night as Alison Coxon’s remarkable racer broke 28.00 for the second time, when running away with her quarter-final heat of the Sporting Press Irish Oaks at Shelbourne Park.

Goldsmith Yvonne Ross, fiancée of producer Paul Young, will be walking the red carpet at the Oscars tomorrow wearing jewellery she designed for the event.

Irish movie-lovers will be rooting for Cartoon Saloon tomorrow evening when the Kilkenny-based animation studio takes on the giants of Hollywood at the 87th Academy Awards ceremony with its feature film, Song of the Sea.

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Derby champ Laughil Blake and the immensely talented Droopys Nidge gave further credence, if it were needed, to the ‘Night of Stars’ moniker as they produced stellar performances on Saturday at Shelbourne Park.

The 2014 Night of Stars, which takes place on Saturday at Shelbourne Park, promises to deliver in spades.

To save you the embarrassment of belting it out over the silly season here are the new changes:

The Pat Buckley-trained Mind The Net set the standard in Saturday’s third-round heats of the English Greyhound Derby, when coming from behind the pace to take the third heat.

This week’s Small Business Show looks at Camara, the charity which takes old technology from businesses and puts it back to work helping disadvantaged children around the world. Oscar nominated animation company, Cartoon Saloon, talk about what it takes to create great animation and how publishers are now getting in on the animation industries. Temptster talks about filling to those empty tables and chairs as well as cinema seats. In the final part of the show we meet video analytics company Vidiro Analytics.

Four years ago, Thomas Mallon wasn’t exactly on the inter-county radar.

UK: A couple have held their wedding reception at the pizza restaurant where they had their first date 14 years ago.

How times change!

There have been many great nights at Tralee over the years but Saturday’s Betdaq Night of Champions will surely be one of the greatest ever.

It’s one of the most coveted prizes in greyhound sport and a new Queen of the Track will be crowned on Saturday when the Sporting Press Irish Oaks is run at Shelbourne Park.

A mixture of Irish classic and major winners, brilliant local talent and two high-class English raiders make the Betdaq Race of Champions a huge attraction and the semi-finals should attract a smashing crowd to Tralee on Friday night.

In a week when the when the finals of the Sporting Press Irish Oaks, the Bettor.com Northern Irish Derby and the Track Supporters Munster Derby will be run, another major event will be the semi-finals of the Betdaq Race of Champions at Tralee on Friday.

Two major competitions reach the semi-final stage on the tracks this week with the semi-finals of both the Sporting Press Irish Oaks at Shelbourne and the Bettor.com Northern Irish Derby at Drumbo Park to be run on Saturday.

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We scan a selection of trading up homes around the country

IRELAND has a lot of good things to be animated about for a change with two Irish made films – The Secret of Kells and Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty – among this year’s Oscar nominations.

COMEDIAN Kathleen O’Rourke, the voice of Granny O’Grimm, is looking for a free frock to wear at next month’s Oscar Award night in Hollywood.

WHEN Paul Young says he finds it hard to believe that Loup are in the Ulster final, he’s not kidding.

Kilcoo (Down) 1-11 Loup (Derry) 1-12

Derry 0-13 Galway 2-7

Derry 1-09 Mayo 0-10

GALWEGIANS 27 HIGHFIELD 17

WHEN the prosecution’s forensic expert Geraldine O’Neill recounted how she examined the hall-marked cocaine recovered from Dunlough Bay it was possible to make different calculations about the street value of the bales which had been floating in the Atlantic.

The jury in Ireland’s biggest ever drugs trial were sent home until Monday and warned by the trial judge today to avoid reading media reports like the plague.

Galwegians 5 Shannon 8, Crowley Park

Galwegians 5 Cork Constitution 13, Crowley Park

Galwegians 53 Malone 0

Galwegians 25 Ballymena 18

Galwegians ensured their top-flight status for another year with a hard-fought 14-10 win over Dungannon at Crowley Park this afternoon.

Galwegians 40 Dungannon 3

Galwegians 29 Belfast Harlequins 8

Galwegians 29 Lansdowne 16

County Carlow 18 Galwegians 20

Galwegians 6 Blackrock College 15

Rocker Rod Stewart is hoping to prove he’s got hot legs when he captains a football squad in Italy.