During the week I wrote a blog for the paper on the fate of Kevin Ware, the American basketball player who suffered a horrific injury last weekend.

LIKE a bride on the eve of her nuptials, Adare Manor was last night eager with anticipation, bursting to lay bare her best assets, and arranging and re-arranging her finery for a glorious unveiling today.

Hollywood star Samuel L Jackson is set to play an evil 'Octopus' in a big screen adaptation of comic book The Spirit.

Samuel L Jackson only met a select group of the Star Wars cast during filming on the three prequels - because the majority of actors' identities were obscured by their costumes.