Saoirse Ronan’s favourite nail salon will be painting works of art on to fingernails at the National Gallery of Ireland.

Des O’Sullivan looks at some of the lots on offer at Lynes and Lynes and finds great value Georgiana.

Three students chased and detained a man who police believe tried to steal five paintings from a Boston art gallery, including etchings by Pablo Picasso and Rembrandt.

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Emma Straub says the ‘naked face’ look makes an edgy non-conformist statement about a woman, while Paula Burns argues thick brows define a face, promoting a natural beauty and urges us all to banish our tweezers.

Here’s our tips on what’s you should watch on the box tonight.

This weekend sees Scorsese and DiCaprio unite once again, and an unholy union of ‘Paranormal Activity’ and ‘Rosemary’s Baby’.

Details of Munch’s The Scream — one of the world’s most iconic paintings of which there are only four copies, but also the world’s most stolen painting.

FORTY years ago this week, National Geographic screened a documentary entitled The Last Tribes of Mindanao.

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Rafael van der Vaart was today recalled to the Holland squad for the World Cup qualifiers against Andorra and Romania after proving his fitness to coach Louis van Gaal.

The celebrities championing the works of art in RTÉ’s Masterpiece campaign to discover Ireland’s favourite painting may be better known than the artists.

Manchester United stumbled into a Europa League last-16 meeting with Athletic Bilbao at Old Trafford last night after coming perilously close to being knocked out by Ajax.

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IN a routine act of Gallic indifference, the French – having mopped up Newmarket’s 2000 Guineas with Makfi – have turned their backs on Epsom in favour of keeping their equine blue bloods at home for Sunday’s equivalent colts’ classic at Chantilly.

AIDAN O’BRIEN finalised his Investec Derby plans yesterday and will take a team of three to Epsom.

Ajax have offered goalkeeper Kenneth Vermeer a new contract which could tie him to the Amsterdam giants until June 2014.

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Aston Villa 2 Ajax 1

London's National Gallery's hotly anticipated Velazquez exhibition opens today, with a record number of advance ticket sales ensuring it will be a blockbuster.

Colin Firth became totally immersed in the work of Vermeer when he took the role of the Dutch painter in The Girl With The Pearl Earring.

IT has been described as the most important travelling exhibition of Dutch 17th century masterpieces ever to go on show in the National Art Gallery.

An armed gang that stole two old masters worth more than £3m from an art collection in Co Wicklow were tonight thought to have slipped out of the area - despite having to flee on foot.

Gardai are today investigating the theft of two paintings valued at a total of £3m from Russborough House, Co Wicklow.