The decision by Rosanna Davison and her husband to look for a surrogate to carry their baby shows the lengths to which some couples go to realise their dream, writes Sharon Ní Chonchúir.

Sex in the City actress Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick have been spotted out and about in Dublin City amongst the Christmas shoppers.

Although she is from Watergrasshill, Cork, Emer O’Sullivan’s heart has always been in Tipperary.

After spending a month travelling around Italy with her family, SJP decided to spent the last few weeks relaxing indoors in the rainy Irish village.

The family has spent the past month travelling around Italy before making the stop in Kilcar.

They’ll need to score if they want to win. That would have been a goal if it had gone in the net. To win a game, you can’t lose. They’ll want their best players on. At the end of the day. Make no mistake, mistakes will be made.

Foam rolling was once for professional athletes only. These days it’s hard to walk into a gym without tripping over somebody rolling around on a neoprene tube.

Carol O’Callaghan visits a unique retail gem in the heart of Cork City serving the needs of craft makers, homemakers, bookworms, and hobbyists — and one that should be visited for the experience alone.

A plug is a plug.

Book clubs can inspire busy adults to rediscover a love of reading, but they are also places to meet, gossip, socialise and drink tea and coffee, says Paula Burns.

Esther N McCarthy is all aquiver for crafty quilts and clucking with delight over cool chick art

Swamp Fox won the feature race, the €26,000 Dawn Milk Handicap on Ladies Day at Killarney Races yesterday, but there was no outfoxing, or even outdancing judges Aidan O’Mahony and Thalia Heffernan who said they were “ swamped” with style.

Clarins Lip Comfort Oil, €21, is a spring/summer make-up must. A refreshing entry into the market, it tows the line between cosmetic item and beauty treatment.

It’s hats off to Galway hat designer Philip Treacy as new accounts show accumulated profits at his fashion firm last year totalled £335,082 (€386,487).

Sharon Horgan’s show is about to return to our screens, but one of its stars, Carrie Fisher, will be sorely missed, writes Jeananne Craig.

Ruth Negga and Colin Farrell lead the way in the Irish nominations for the Golden Globes tonight.

Without futher ado:

If Parker printed an inventory of her wardrobe and bound it in her favourite colour it would be a bestseller.

Irish comedy star Sharon Horgan has revealed she is penning a new movie for Oscar-winning actress/producer Reese Witherspoon.

Here are some of the events going on around the country

 

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Sarah Jessica Parker is coming back to TV and HBO for the first time since the end of Sex and the City in a new show, and it was written by our own Sharon Horgan!

From cocktails to Cavan.

2015 is almost out, so it’s time to look to what the new year will bring in terms of

The Light House cinema in Dublin is hosting 9 horror classics for Halloween, including vampires, screams and nightmares

If you thought that the school run is all hastily pulled together ponytails, jeans and runners, think again. Regular mums are getting up half an hour before their kids to make sure they turn heads, writes Paula Burns.

With female comedians taking centre stage, it’s like women have finally crossed a frontier that eluded them for generations, says Ed Power.

She created Carrie Bradshaw; now she’s writing about the Sex and the City generation hitting their middle years. Will Pavia meets — and is terrified by — Candace Bushnell.

A new exhibition exploring our obsession with shoes opens today at the V&A. Suzanne Harrington ditches the heels and takes a look.

Things fall apart, wrote Yeats, but they also come together, as they did in Manhattan on Monday night, when a thousand guests attended a celebration of the poet’s 150th birthday.

Suzanne Harrington reviews Blood Beneath the Skin by Andrew Wilson, a new book on the life of fashion’s enfant terrible, Alexander, ‘Lee’ McQueen,  whose personal life was marred by drugs and depression. 

It’s awards season, but  the drama queens and preening wannabes in the make-believe world of the Dáil deserve no accolades, and, inevitably, the biggest losers will be the voters, writes Shaun Connolly

Check out our guide to what to watch on TV tonight.

WE.ARE.EXCITED.

KEIRA KNIGHTLEY says she’s happy to do topless shoots — as long as her image isn’t retouched. The actress was photographed topless — except for a pair of long gloves — for Interview magazine.

Check out our spoiler-free guide to what to watch on TV tonight.