Kevin Markham admits that there were times when he got fed-up with the whole thing.

Andy Lee blamed ring-rust for his underwhelming performance against Frank Horta but is now hoping to seal a world title shot at light-middleweight before the end of the year.

Adapted from the novel by Irvine Welsh, Filth (18s) opens with the murder of a Japanese student in Edinburgh in the run-up to Christmas.

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s a messiah.

Bookended by two very different Thanksgiving celebrations, ‘Stuck In Love’ is a smartly scripted, semi-autobiographical dramedy about the aftermath of divorce on a wealthy family.

Pet psychic Jackie Weaver stunned Dan Buckley with what she found out after a video ‘chat’ with his trusty dog Rusty

Rory McIlroy is in San Antonio, Texas, this week.

THE organisers of the Dublin: One City, One Book Festival, which is the focal point for a month of literary events in April, have chosen well with this year’s selection, James Plunkett’s Strumpet City.

Rusty Rory McIlroy insists he’s not in panic mode about his new clubs as the clock ticks down to the Masters.

Relationship to an animal can be as close as to a person.

Jerry Lee Lewis has married for the seventh time.

A wheelchair-bound pensioner has been caught on camera apparently stealing a mechanical elf from a garden centre in Britain.

If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.

Britain's national postal service is refusing to deliver anything to a street because of a dog.

The ‘California Gurls’ singer Katy Perry and her husband Russell Brand own three moggies, Kitty Purry, Morrissey - who gets his moniker from the former Smiths frontman of the same name – and Krusty, which is a combination of the pop star's name and the comedian's nickname ‘Rusty’, and admits she loves her feline friends as much as anything else in her life.

WITH €475,000 on offer in tomorrow night’s Global Champions Tour opener in Doha, riders will not be lacking in incentive.

AN employment tribunal involving an English teacher who was sacked after she wrote a racy novel about her pupils was adjourned yesterday.

Russell Brand said he would have done nothing differently over the prank calls he and Jonathan Ross made to Fawlty Towers actor Andrew Sachs – saying the scandal “worked out really well”.

Controversial comic Russell Brand said he would never tone down his comedy routine and was not afraid of censure.

JUST when it appeared his season was about to collapse under a barrage of missed cuts, Pádraig Harrington blasted a six under par 64 – his lowest round of the season – to grab a two stroke lead in the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational at Firestone Country Club.

SEARCH teams went into a wild sea off the west Cork coast yesterday morning looking for another casualty of the unforgiving waves.

HOLLYWOOD heart-throbs George Clooney, Brad Pitt and Matt Damon sent fans wild at the world’s most famous film festival yesterday.

Sixmilebridge 2-13 Blackrock 1-15

BIRR’S All-Ireland club hurling winning manager Pat Joe Whelahan has criticised the GAA’s disciplinary system after being forced to watch his side defeat Castletown in the Leinster championship from the stands.