The Après Match crew are hitting the road with a new live show that mixes harmless footie fun with skewering satire, writes Richard Fitzpatrick

“We’ll leave it there, so,” as he’d say himself, but let’s face it — we don’t want to.

An all-star, eclectic line-up is expected to draw 20,000 revellers to the Killarney Festival of Music and Food, on June 27-28.

If your voice and mannerisms were constantly being copied by comedians, how would you feel? Deirdre Reynolds quizzed some personalities

The Electric Ireland Feis Ceoil 2012 is continuing in venues across Dublin today.

Ciarán Hinds, star of film and TV, returns to the Abbey after 20 years, in Juno and the Paycock, says Pádraic Killeen.

THE NEW Thomond Park Stadium is the venue for the third Munster Rugby Awards, a gala evening that will celebrate both the professional and domestic games in the province.

CONGRATULATIONS to the BBC Radio 5 Live newsreader who recently added to the gaiety of a nation with the following breaking news item: “Andrew Flintoff is to see a renowned joint specialist in Amsterdam.”

IRELAND coach Eddie O’Sullivan thought he had enough on his plate following his side’s dreadful World Cup but an Apres Match comedian had other ideas.

It wasn’t all media spin, doom and gloom with the Lions in New Zealand. Hector Ó hEochagáin and Apres Match regular Risteard Cooper followed the tour for six weeks in New Zealand, and have produced a special ‘Chasing the Lions’ DVD. Brendan O’Brien gets a sneak preview.

Stars from the world of sports and entertainment will honour former Ireland international Keith O’Neill at a benefit dinner to be held at The Burlington Hotel on Thursday, May 5.

Several of the cast members of the current production of "I, Keano" will not be performing in the extended dates, it was confirmed today.

AS usual, James Lawton, columnist with the London Independent, didn’t mince his words.

THEY think it’s all over ... well it’s only just begun. I, Keano, the musical show of Roy Keane’s infamous Saipan row with Mick McCarthy, opens at Dublin’s Olympia Theatre from next Tuesday, February 8 until February 19.

The Saipan saga, which rocked Irish soccer, is set to divide the nation again except this time the battlefield will be Dublin’s Olympia Theatre.

SOME sentiments lend themselves to music more sweetly than others.

HE came, he saw and he went home in a tiff.

ANNA MANAHAN was delighted yesterday to receive recognition for her acting talents. Her handprints are immortalised on the forecourt of Dublin’s Gaiety Theatre, a distinction she shares with two other legends.