The goring to death of several people this summer in Spanish bullrings has highlighted a most horrific form of organised animal cruelty.

This month marks Lesley Keane’s 20th year as a MAC Senior Artist. She gives Corina Gaffey the lowdown on working with celebs like Kate Moss and Naomi Campbell — plus she reveals her top make-up tips.

BEFORE you go to see Fifty Shades of Grey, you must enter into a contract. The contract is between the film dominating cinemas everywhere, and the audience submitting two hours and five minutes of their lives which they will never get back.

They say you have to be mad to be a goalkeeper, and Shane ‘Cake’ Curran is proof enough of that. Over the course of his career, with Roscommon and St Brigid’s, Curran has proved one of the most colourful characters in the GAA — and the organisation is so much better for it.

CONTROVERSY IN VENEZUELA OVER CHAVEZ PRAYER

Overreaction or justified response?

Jennifer Aniston claims the sun has damaged her skin.

Fifty years after Marilyn Monroe’s death, a new exhibition reveals unseen pictures, her size eight dresses and her secret beauty routine. Suzanne Harrington reports

DESPITE all her recent public pratfalls, Cheryl Cole seems determined to take the unusual step of washing that man right back into her hair with a brand new cut and colour.

Wladimir Klitschko has insisted that he will make David Haye his 50th knock-out when the two meet in a unification bout on July 2 in Hamburg.

AN AMERICAN author has angrily dismissed claims his new book on Mahatma Gandhi alleged that India’s independence leader was a racist bisexual who left his wife for a body-builder.

A MAN who planned to rape the first woman he came across with a “rape kit” has received a 12-year sentence.

A former shop security man who ambushed a young Polish woman and dragged her to where he had prepared a special “rape-kit” has today received a 12-year sentence with the last three years suspended.

The jury in the trial of a Sligo man accused of murdering a 14-year-old girl has been told that it will hear from the accused man’s daughter that she saw him tie the schoolgirl’s body up in a sleeping bag and throw it in a river.

A Roscommon man has been convicted of raping a babysitter more than two decades ago.

A Waterford man has been jailed for 10 years by Mr Justice Paul Carney at the Central Criminal Court for the oral rape and sexual assault of his niece.

DIARMUID, our youngest son, returned from the jungles of Bolivia last month. He brought home a guest. Some odd characters stay with us from time to time, but the Bolivian visitor, who is still here, is the strangest to date.

THE jury in Michael Jackson’s child abuse trial was discharged early yesterday to enable lawyers to debate various motions before Judge Rodney Melville.

A former security guard at Michael Jackson’s Neverland ranch testified today about a series of records which detailed activities at the property.