Ger Wilkes from Malahide in Dublin has won this year's Liffey Swim.

Inspired by a 2010 feature in Vanity Fair magazine entitled The Suspects Wore Louboutins, The Bling Ring dramatises the outlandish true story of a group of bored, celebrity-obsessed teenagers, who broke into the houses of the rich and fabulous to pilfer their designer couture.

A woman accused of being one of the ringleaders of a group of young adults who broke into celebrities’ homes has pleaded no contest to burgling reality starlet Audrina Patridge’s home.

Paris Hilton didn’t notice she had been burgled for two months.

THE bravery of two men who drowned while trying to rescue two swimmers in west Cork last year was recalled yesterday when they were posthumously honoured by the state organisation with responsibility for promoting water safety.