Actor Aidan Gillen has said he tried not to pass judgement on Charles Haughey when playing the controversial taoiseach in RTÉ’s upcoming mini-series, Charlie.

AN illicit love affair is so quintessentially French that revelations of President François Hollande’s clandestine meetings with Julie Gayet have been greeted by the French with a shrug.

We all know about the French President Francois Hollande.

SAY what you like about Colm Keaveney, he has put an end to the Civil War. Ah, not that Civil War, silly. The real Civil War. The war between Charlie Haughey and Garret FitzGerald.

Littlefinger as Charlie Haughey? Nidge as Mara? How we scoffed. But we scoff no more…

Charles Haughey’s former press secretary believes the revelation he was having an affair was the “most painful moment” for the former Taoiseach.

The life of Charles Haughey, the politician so many people love to hate, is to be dramatised starring actors from the country’s latest hit crime drama.

Shamed former taoiseach Charlie Haughey “tried to grope” television presenter Anne Robinson while she was covering the 1969 general election.

Fifty years of broadcasting were bridged across the interviewer’s desk as incumbent Ryan Tubridy sought to prise the secrets of The Late Late Show from its master Gay Byrne.

MISS University Holly Carpenter proved she was top of the class on Saturday as she was named Miss Ireland 2011.

THERE was a time when the roll-call for Miss Ireland was a bit like the GAA Championships — Miss Dublin, Miss Cork, Miss Donegal etc.

A FILM about the life and times of Charles Haughey is a step closer after the film rights were bought to Limerick writer Kevin O’Connor’s book and screenplay on the controversial Taoiseach.

‘MY GRANNY doesn’t like you,” the student at the book-signing blurted out.

Dan Buckley asks whether Ryan Tubridy can rekindle that Gaybo attraction.

SHORTLY before he died, according to his son Seán, Charlie Haughey said: “I never broke my word in politics.”

IT WAS the kind of funeral Terry Keane would have approved of. An elegant church in leafy south Dublin, ladies with perfectly co-ordinated handbag and shoes, wonderfully refined music and a celebrant who doubles as an expert on Caravaggio.

The late journalist Terry keane was known for her cordial, colourful and controversial persona, mourners at her funeral heard today.

The funeral will take place today of journalist Terry Keane who died at the weekend.

THEY kept it secret for 27 years, although everybody kind of knew.

The columnist Terry Keane has passed away in St Vincent's Hospital after a long illness at the age of 68.

MUCH of Charles Haughey’s financial need was caused by the requirement to keep his mistress Terry Keane in the style to which she had become accustomed.

AFTER Ireland’s defeat to Italy in the quarter-final of the 1990 World Cup, Charlie Haughey went down on the field to salute the Irish crowd, but he was roundly booed.

You could take your choice, yesterday. You could read analysis of the life of a former Taoiseach by political correspondents.

GEORGE BEST will be the next Irish superstar to get the Eamon Dunphy biography treatment, it was confirmed yesterday.

THE worst moment for an after-dinner speaker is the point when a silver teaspoon is clanged off a glass for silence.

THE son of former Chief Justice Ronan Keane and social diarist Terry Keane died when fatty tissue from a broken arm sustained 24 hours earlier, travelled to his lungs forming a fatal blood clot, an inquest has found.

AN IRISHWOMAN'S highest aspiration once was to be the mother of a bishop now her heart's desire is to be his beau. Pictured: Colin Farrell.

GARDAÍ are continuing to investigate “the full circumstances” of the death of Chief Justice Ronan Keane’s only son, Timothy.

CELEBRITY Irish gardener Diarmuid Gavin picked up an award for his design at the Chelsea Flower Show yesterday and found himself entangled in another row at the prestigious event.

THE question as to who will pay thousands of euro in legal costs following the Ian Bailey libel hearing still has to be decided.

By Ryle Dwyer Since last October, Michael Lowry has been the main focus of the Moriarty Tribunal and, when it reconvenes in October, he will again be the focus of attention.