Maurice Setters, Republic of Ireland assistant to Jack Charlton, dies aged 83

Grainne Seoige and her hubby Leon Jordaan have swapped sunny South Africa for Irish shores this winter as they have finally made the decision to move back home.

As every year, Google has released its Year in Search and it reveals just what’s been on our minds, what we’ve been cooking, who we’ve been talking about and what we’ve been watching.

One of the nation’s most loved shows, Ireland’s Fittest Family, is set to return to our screens at the beginning of January and we cannot wait.

2020 has been one hell of a year and thanks to Google’s ‘Year In Search’ we can look back on some of the highlights we may have missed.

Kathy Ireland was among the Hollywood stars and professional athletes thrilled forVanderbilt kicker Sarah Fuller, who made history on Saturday when she became the first womanto play in a Power Five game. The actress, model and super-mogul(who is also on the board of directors of National Football League Players Incorporated)played a college football kicker in the 1991 sports classicNecessary Roughness.

While many of us spent the last weekend of lockdown lounging in our leggings watching TV, it was a markedly more glamourous affair for Derry’s Eileen O’Donnell.

The Irish Film & Television Academy is sending Tom Sullivan’s Arracht as its entry to the 2021 International Oscar race.

Naman Ramachandran The Irish Film and Television Academy has selected Tom Sullivan’s Irish-language feature “Arracht” as Ireland’s entry for the 2021 Oscars’ best international feature film category.The film is set in 1845 on the eve of the Irish famine. Fisherman Colmán Sharkey takes in a stranger at the behest of a local priest.

Chart battles don't get any closer than the one that is currently unfolding on the Official Irish Singles Chart between Ariana Grande and Dermot Kennedy.

pic.twitter.com/E1Y9BslhHK— Ben Smoke (@bencsmoke) November 16, 2020 Laura and Anton’s light-hearted matching messing on the morning show comes in the same day their colleague Simon Delaney is dealing with fake social media accounts being set up in his likeness.The celebrity chef shared a screenshot of the Instagram account purporting to be him and warned, ‘This is not me.’‘If you’re on Instagram and you get a message from this account, don’t accept it.

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...