The Dublin Flamenco Festival gets underway today.

Mark Selby gained a measure of revenge for his defeat to Mark Williams in last month's German Masters final as he knocked the Welshman out of the Partycasino.com Players Tour Championship Grand Finals in Dublin last night.

DARREN SUTHERLAND is not just going to be a world champion — he is going to be one of the great world champions — according to his trainer Brian Lawrence.

Irish boxer Daren Sutherland will make his professional boxing debut next month in the Helix in DCU.

Reducing poverty in Africa’s developing countries will be the subject of a conference later today.

President Mary McAleese and her husband Martin will today be conferred with honorary doctorates to mark their contribution to the peace process in the North.

THE limelight continues to beckon for a talented young Limerick singer — whose mother made it to number one in the charts, posthumously, 15 years ago.

THE get-up-and-go attitude of three schools has earned them €5,000 each in the Active School Awards 2007.

YOU’RE A Star sensation, Maeve O’Donovan was involved in a medical drama in the days leading up to last Sunday’s round of the RTÉ talent contest.

HEALTH service management have been warned that nurses will consider all options, including industrial action, in their campaign for better pay and conditions.

TWO main nurses’ unions are to hold a major rally in Dublin in protest of hours and pay, it emerged today.

HUNDREDS of wannabe pop stars yesterday sang their hearts out for a place in the You’re A Star talent book.

THOUSANDS of budding Irish pop stars are expected to strut their stuff in a bid for fame this week as a new You’re A Star competition gets under way.

RTÉ’s Charity You’re a Star looks set to exceed the €300,000 raised last year if the 680,000 viewers who are tuning in to see celebrities singing for their survival is anything to go by.

Up to 1,500 hundred nurses have gathered for national protest rally at the Helix venue in North Dublin to call on Mary Harney to ensure better working conditions and wage increases.

SINGING siblings Donna and Joseph McCaul were star-struck last night as they set their sights on Eurovision 2005.

YOU’RE A Star is expected to attract about 10,000 contestants seeking fame and fortune and a chance to go all the way to next year’s Eurovision Song Contest.

Mickey Joe Harte from Co. Donegal has won the 'You're A Star' competition and will represent Ireland at the Eurovision Song Contest in Latvia later this year.