Five sets of sisters will be hoping to win the senior All-Ireland club title with Mourneabbey on Sunday.

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Danny & the Deep Blue Sea, Chancery Lane Theatre, Dublin

A woman in Sydney spent three hours performing CPR on her blind chicken.

Gardaí in Kildare have appealed for help in tracing two sisters who have been missing for almost two weeks.

Former world number one Ana Ivanovic was thrashed 6-0 6-0 by Italian Roberta Vinci in the second round of the WTA Rogers Cup in Montreal on Thursday.

Navy and Garda dive teams are assessing conditions in Union Hall harbour in West Cork, ahead of making a dive on the wreck of the Tit Bonhomme.

Hopes were fading tonight for the safe return of five men missing after a trawler sank off the west Cork coast.

Local reports suggest one of those missing from the trawler that went aground off the Cork coast was a young student from west Cork.

Two sisters have gone missing from their Co. Kildare home.

EVEN though Roberta O’Brien grew up almost 100 kilometres from the nearest coastline, it hasn’t stopped the Tipperary native from making history with the Irish Naval Service.

THIS is quite a month for firsts — Barack Obama in the White House, the All Blacks in Croke Park today and the first female commander of an Irish navy vessel.

Lieutenant Commander Roberta O’Brien will make Irish Naval history tomorrow when she takes command of L.E. Aisling, becoming the first female officer to command a state ship.

LADY ROBERTA gets the nap to reap the reward of consistency in the Knockhouse Stud Touch Of Land EBF Mares Bumper at Wexford this afternoon.

US actor Al Pacino made grand speeches on screen as Michael Corleone and Tony Montana, but when the actor was honoured with the American Film Institute’s Life Achievement Award, he was practically speechless.

It’s only natural that Katie Holmes turned to Giorgio Armani to design her wedding dress.

The BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing trounced ITV1’s X Factor to win their hotly contested ratings war.

IRELAND’S leading wildlife park will tomorrow celebrate its success in encouraging us to take a walk on the wild side for the past 21 years.

THE Moore family from Leicestershire may sound like your average British family: dad’s a car salesman who loves the Osbournes and his teenage son is a keen DJ.

The heavily recycled war-of- the-greeks theme, first made popular in the early 1980s, has returned to the screen in an updated form with the cross-gender comedy Sorority Boys. The film is filled to the brim with the crude, embarrassing humour of its predecessors; however its sole joke fails to leave an impact.

A Minnesota man who admitted surfing Internet porn sites while his 13-month-old son drowned in the bath has been jailed for a year.

IRELAND’S make-or-break match against the Saudis today better not be too thrilling or Martin O’Grady may stay in Japan for good.

Investigating claims that gangster Ronnie Kray murdered his first sister-in-law would be a ‘‘huge waste’’ of police resources, Reggie Kray’s widow said today.

A deathbed interview with Reggie Kray is to be shown on television.