Saoirse Ronan and Midleton’s Nora Twomey are among the Irish hopefuls for the Golden Globes on Sunday, writes Esther McCarthy.

Mexican immigration agents put ‘affluenza’ teen Ethan Couch aboard a commercial flight to Texas, ending his month-long stay in Mexico.

A teenage fugitive from Texas known for using an “affluenza” defence is to be returned to the US, along with his mother, after a mobile phone used to order a pizza gave away their location in Mexico.

Angelina Jolie has reportedly accused Jennifer Aniston of using an appearance on 'The Oprah Winfrey show' last September to turn the public against her and Aniston's former husband Brad Pitt.

A computer programmer with no acting experience, who dreams of getting a Hollywood role as a corpse, has created a bizarre website to show just how good he would be at the job.

TEN years ago Tonya Harding found herself the unlikely cover girl of Time magazine. She was not a complete unknown but her newly-won status as US National Figure Skating champion hardly warranted the attention she was getting, even in the build-up to the following month’s Winter Olympics in Lillehammer.

BEN JOHNSON has been voted the worst sporting cheat of all time for the 1998 drugs scandal that saw him stripped of his Olympic gold medal.