As Don Draper makes his return this week, John Daly picks TV’s most memorable characters, many of them so influential, we forget they never actually lived.

Prince George has carried out his first official engagement — going on a crawl-about with other babies.

Mad Men fans are gearing up for the final series — but how will it end for Don Draper? John Daly looks back at other iconic TV show finales.

JANE Maas, one of the female pioneers of the advertising industry on New York’s Madison Avenue, is happy to be compared to Peggy Olson, the character from Mad Men, the 1960s-based American TV series about advertising, sex, booze and chain-smoking.

Tomi Ungerer’s journey from top US illustrator to a quiet life in Bantry is a fascinating tale, writes Richard Fitzpatrick

The Art of Perception, Memoirs of a Life in PR

Police are looking for a man who stole a $150,000 (€118,633) Salvador Dali painting from a New York art gallery.

As New York bade farewell to an icon, the world spun on and the city opened its arms wide for the most high-profile low-quality player the NFL has ever concocted

SO what’s your favourite slogan of the presidential campaign?

Supergods: Our World in the Age of the Superhero. Grant Morrison Jonathan Cape; £17.99

Christmas is getting a makeover – Lady Gaga style. The singer and her team are going to reinterpret Santa’s workshop and put it on display at a New York store.

FOR Don Draper, advertising is based on one thing: happiness.

ALONG with other Canadian cities Toronto is consistently rated as one of the top 10 best places in the world to live.

WHAT is the ‘year zero’ face?

Tonight the Airtricity League kicks off after a 12-round close-season that left even Roddy ‘Queensbury Rules’ Collins punch-drunk. After all the off-field attrition – though the battle scars are yet to heal – a football match will break out.

US authorities said ice broke through a glass atrium at the Sony Building in New York City and 10 people sustained minor injuries.

DESPITE presenting his side of the car-crash story and asking that it remain “a private matter,” Tiger Woods may still not be in the clear.

A fund manager who lost more than $1bn (€715m) of his clients’ money to Bernard Madoff committed suicide at his Manhattan office.

Irish people helped burst the Celtic Tiger boom by indulging in bigger houses, cars and holidays, Natural Resources Minister Eamon Ryan today told the Dáil.

Hero baggage handler John Smeaton has arrived in the US to take part in the ceremony marking the anniversary of the September 11 attacks.

Terror attack hero John Smeaton sets off for the US today to take part in a ceremony marking the anniversary of the September 11 attacks.

A YOUNG Limerick property tycoon has joined forces with JP McManus to buy a Manhattan property which houses one of New York’s most fashionable stores, in a deal worth $80 million (€62m) deal.

THE IRISH rode into the heart of the Ryder Cup on Wednesday night and pulled off the biggest coup of the week.

Chart star Moby is to open a tea shop in New York amid a surge in popularity for the drink across the city, it emerged today.

Parents and government officials in Singapore are voicing concern over what they say is increasing indolence among the country’s pampered teenagers.