The seats said ‘Mr and Mr’ and were indicated on Cupid’s arrows when the fashion designer, Don O’Neill, married fiancé Pascal Guellermie in front of Ballyheigue Castle, Co Kerry, on the edge of the Atlantic this weekend.

Fachtna Boland, the grandson and adopted son of former Defence Minister Kevin Boland, has settled a court case in which he had sought to evict his natural mother, Síle Boland, who is a daughter of the former minister.

Two young Irish people have won gold medals in the WorldSkills competition in Brazil.

BROADCASTER Síle Seoige is philosophical about what life has thrown at her. 

It was an extra special moment for Síle Murphy and her family when they appeared together on RTÉ’s Late Late Show last night.

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

‘Maybe This Christmas’

Ó GHLÚIN go glúin, from generation to generation, the sean-nós singing tradition is passed carefully down in Cork’s Múscraí Gaeltacht: from the 200-year-old songs of Máire Bhuí Ní Laoire, to Bess Cronin, Peaití Thaidhg Pheig Ó Tuama, Máire Ní Cheocháin and Diarmuid Ó Súilleabháin to today’s young singers. And to Nell Ní Chróinín, winner this month of sean-nós singing’s most coveted prize, the Corn Uí Riada.

In 1985, as the 24-year-old star of the classic film, Back to the Future, Michael J Fox was at the height of his fame, raucously living a life of luxury with a beverage in both hands.

The Menu shall be delivering himself of a few bars of ‘Follow Me Up To Carlow’ as he heads off to the gorgeous Sandbrook House for a Slow Food weekend (Apr 20/21) with an international Slow Food symposium on the Saturday, ‘How Can We Learn From Our Food Heritage To Create Employment For This Generation?’.

A young man who died in a kayaking accident was remembered at his requiem Mass yesterday as a courageous and fearless leader who lived life to the full.

Police in Norway believe Irish kayaker Colm Johnson, who died in a river there on Monday, lost his grip on his kayak after capsizing at the bottom of a steep ravine drop and drowned.

Síle Seoige has revealed she is fighting thyroid cancer, admitting that the diagnosis “chills you to the core”.

A GUESTHOUSE and restaurant in Dingle, Co Kerry, has been named Guest Accommodation of the Year at the prestigious AA Ireland Hospitality Awards.

Paraic Breathnach will reprise his role as advisor to judge for the West Daithi O’Sé in the new series of 'The All Ireland Talent Show', it was announced today.

WHEN the news broke yesterday morning that one of Ireland’s best loved TV presenters Gráinne Seoige had split from husband and partner of 11 years, Stephen Cullinane, it came as no surprise that the friends, colleagues and family of the pair were staying tight lipped about the break up.

THE Seoige sisters probably never heard WC Fields’ famous advice about never sharing the limelight with children or dogs.

The Seoige sister act of Gráinne and Síle have come together to anchor their own daily TV show.

THE man who was killed in yesterday’s chemical explosion was described by friends and co-workers as a perfect gentleman with a passion for golf.

THE life and works of William Butler Yeats were celebrated yesterday with the opening of a major exhibition in his honour.

A FAMILY row over comedian Spike Milligan’s grave has degenerated into the sort of farce that the last of the Goons would have himself found hilarious.