Kathleen Watkins recalls Gay Byrne’s ‘very special’ first anniversary

The Gogglebox Christmas special was a rollercoaster of emotions and left many viewers reaching for the box of tissues last night.

The Late Late Show Country Music Christmas Special will take over our screens this Friday, featuring the one and only ‘First Lady of Country Music’ Dolly Parton.

Sinéad O’Connor is to release a new album next year, her first in seven years.The Irish singer-songwriter will follow up 2014’s ‘I’m Not Bossy, I’m The Boss’ with her 11th studio album. No release date nor title have been announced.She confirmed the album news via Twitter yesterday (December 8) by gushing about the artwork.

covid vaccine has been discharged from hospital after a “whirlwind day”.  Margaret Keenan - known as Maggie – made global news after she was given the coronavirus jab at University Hospital Coventry on Tuesday. Mrs Keenan, who has lived in Coventry for more than 60 years but is originally from Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, had been admitted to the hospital a just few days before her jab.She was discharged at 2pm on Wednesday, leaving hospital with her grandson Conor and daughter Sue.In a

An all-star special episode of The Late Late Show dedicated to country music has been announced for this Friday.

Another lockdown baby has been welcomed into the world as WWE star Becky Lynch and her fiancé Seth Rollins announced the arrival of their first child.

direct to your inbox A 90-year-old woman has become the first person to receive the coronavirus vaccine in the UK.

Dermot Kennedy is officially the first Irish act to land a Number 1 on the Official Irish Singles Chart in over five years.

The BBC have released the first images of Scots actress Kelly Macdonald's upcoming role in Line of Duty. As we reported yesterday, the sixth instalment of Jed Mercurio’s hit crime thriller - which resumed filming at the end of August - has wrapped up in Northern Ireland.

nine months after the Irish public were advised to work from home for health and safety purposes.The aim of the segment was to highlight how we should sit, stand and protect our bodies while working at the kitchen table.Claire began the segment by highlighting that the number of people working from home has trebled since March 13 and she spoke to Chiropractor Lawrence Wood about the correct posture for sitting at a table not designed for working from for hours on end.Lawrence was saying that

Walking With Ghosts, immediately setting alarm bells ringing in my head. For the following few pages, it did indeed seem that I had entered all-too-familiar territory, what the historian Roy Foster called “the Vaseline on the lens” genre of Irish memoir.The initial signs were not good: “gold and green fields...

Virgin Media’s Drive-In Movies the Ireland’s Got Talent host divulged the mortification the pair moved past to live a lifetime of love together.The couple first met aged 23 at Richie’s sister’s wedding where the Living with Lucy star recalls their first kiss, a ‘sneaky peck behind a van or something classy’.As for their first date she jokingly recounted: ‘He called in ten minutes early, how embarrassing for him, so eager!’The Ireland’s Got Talent presenter hurriedly answered the door under the

Gabriel Byrne is a man dealing with hallucinations in the new Canadian-Irish drama “Death Of A Ladies Man” and ET Canada has your exclusive first look at the film’s trailer.

Claire Byrne has revealed some of the mistakes she made when she started out as one of TV3’s ‘shiny girls’.The TV host says she was incredibly naive about protecting her privacy when she first began life in the public eye.Claire had got her first break as a news reporter for BBC Jersey before joining TV3 as a news reporter and then getting the gig at Ireland AM.