Chart-topping DJs, country legends and comedians are set to take centre stage at Cork Opera House over the coming months, with a sprinkle of Christmas panto magic thrown in for good measure.

Eddie O’Callaghan shows us around his 1970 Ford Capri Mk1 Crayford Convertible

SCREEN legend Maureen O’Hara has made an emotional return to Cong — 60 years after she first set foot there to film The Quiet Man.

TOURISM chiefs in Cong have predicted their biggest windfall ever next weekend, as 4,000 film fans flock to meet screen legend Maureen O’Hara at the 60th anniversary celebrations of The Quiet Man.

LAST year ended on a sour note for Neil Prendeville, and now 2011 could be starting with a Gooseberry.

X FACTOR sensation Mary Byrne yesterday gave away the secret of next weekend’s song – and admitted she is shrinking.

MOURNERS at the funeral Mass for Bray student Sebastian Creane were asked to give thought to the 22-year-old art and design student’s broken-hearted girlfriend, Jennifer Hannigan, who blamed herself for the boy’s death.

A promising young student stabbed to death by a jealous love rival was remarkably similar in so many ways to his killer, his funeral Mass heard today.

Hundreds of people have turned out in Bray, Co Wicklow, to pay their last respects to the 22-year-old student who was stabbed to death at his home in the town last weekend.

HOLLYWOOD screen legend Maureen O’Hara will attend this weekend’s re-enactment of the first commercial transatlantic flight to Ireland.

GOVERNMENT plans to extend the local transport network to counteract the demise of the rural pubs have been described as the equivalent of ‘tickets to fantasy land’ by a local councillor working in one of the affected country areas.