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Adam Screeney produced a brilliant on-field post-match inerview after Offaly's famous U20 Hurling Championships All-Ireland win in Nowlan Park this evening.

AMID scenes of wild excitement, the rawest, most profound of emotion, a heroic new generation of Offaly hurler fulfilled their wildest dreams as they steam roll...

Like sheep filtering into a pen, a vast crowd of millennials drained from the other arenas at Electric Picnic last September and flocked into a single tent.

DIGGING deep and fighting for everything as if their lives depended on it, Offaly showed they had the character to grind out results in games where everything d...

The comedy legends canon runs the gamut from critic-proof to critically adored.

A bustling Friday evening in New York. The manager at the packed Casa Mono in Irving Plaza knows Samantha Barry instantly when we arrive. She is a regular, living just a short walk from the restaurant. There is a table held by the window; she asks if we can sit at the bar. Nothing is a problem for the disarming editor-in-chief of Glamour magazine. Ensconced by the bar — from where we can watch the chefs cook our dinner — she barely has a taste of her red wine before she is off and running wi...

It’s been been described as one of the most powerful and significant musical compositions of the 20th century, and Different Trains – the three-movement piece for string quartet and tape written by Steve Reich – won a Grammy in 1990 for Best Contemporary ­Composition.

"I feel like Frankenstein,” says Michael Flatley. “I woke up at two o’clock this morning and couldn’t get back to sleep.” He is staying in the presidential suite of Fitzpatrick ­Manhattan on Lexington Avenue. It was here, for most of an afternoon on St ­Patrick’s weekend, that he spoke about his cancer, the diagnosis of which he made public in January of last year. It is now in remission.

New York-born Vonda Shepard will be known to the millions who watched the TV series Ally McBeal from 1997 to 2002. As fate would have it, Michelle Pfeiffer and her husband David E Kelley saw Shepard perform at a gig in Los Angeles in 1996.

In Tier 2, Group 2 of the competition, Eoin Stapleton’s Kildare defeated Kerry while Meath overcome Derry.