COMEDIAN Kathleen O’Rourke, the voice of Granny O’Grimm, is looking for a free frock to wear at next month’s Oscar Award night in Hollywood.

Colin Farrell, Saoirse Ronan, and Stephen Rea are among a host of Hollywood stars battling it out for an Irish Film and Television award.

IN support of their case for destructive research on human embryos, Dr Tom Moore and Prof Tom Cotter make use of what they call ethical pragmatism.

THE controversial British ethicist who has said the “demented have a duty to die” is set to speak at a debate in UCC in favour of embryonic stem cell research.

PRISONERS in a State jail will not go hungry due to the financial collapse of its major raw beef supplier.

A YOUNG father died days before Christmas, and was found slumped against a train station wall, killed by a cocktail of rohypnol, drink and heroin, an inquest heard yesterday.

MARTS: A top price of €3,400 was paid for an outstanding Charolais bullock, winner of the overall reserve Championship of the Show at the Annual Fat Stock Show and Sale at Kilmallock Mart, County Limerick.

Dublin Circuit Criminal Court has issued a warrant for the arrest of a Corkman who failed to appear for the hearing in which he was to be sentenced for sexually abusing his five-year-old son and two children of his former partner.