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The God Particle

Sunday January 31 2010

'I remember, at the back of my mind as a young person -- and when I say young person, maybe a young teenager -- thinking for the first time, 'God, I really would like to be a priest.' I think it's like an attraction. It's a longing for fulfilment; it's something within us. It's like a vision; not a vision in terms of something miraculous, but a vision of a way of life, and I was attracted to that."

Flamboyant singer Mika.

Mika opens up

Friday January 29 2010

we all know it's a small world, but it seems the world of pop is even smaller. Last October, Mika was sequestered in a hotel in Los Angeles, growing increasingly frustrated in his attempts to clear all the legal work for one of his new tracks to be signed over to Boyzone to record.

Ronan Keating heads to Hollywood?

Monday January 25 2010

Ronan Keating has revealed his intention to pursue an acting career in Hollywood.

BOY ZONE: Third-time father, Westlife's Shane Filan pictured with his wife Gillian last year

Baby joy for Westlife's Shane after mum's last-minute dash

Sunday January 24 2010

WESTLIFE star Shane Filan has become a father for the third time.

Boyzone's Gately died of natural causes, judge rules

Friday January 22 2010

THE official investigation into Stephen Gately's death was closed yesterday when a judge ruled the Boyzone star died from natural causes.

Boyzone: New video was 'draining'

Monday January 18 2010

Boyzone have revealed how the video shoot for their new single was emotionally draining as they "reminisced" about their late bandmate - and "brother" - Stephen Gately.

No matter what they say. . . Gately was a talented writer

Saturday January 16 2010

The revelation that Stephen Gately was writing a book before he died was a surprise to many Boyzone fans. But his band mates, his family and friends all knew about it and how enthusiastic he was about writing. In fact, one of the main reasons he had gone back to his holiday home in Majorca, where he died last October, was to finish the book.

Seeds of the past prepare to bloom

Sunday January 10 2010

The power of the past is a keynote theme in literary fiction this spring: In The Dead Republic, the last in Roddy Doyle's ambitious trilogy, our hero returns to Barrytown and becomes an unlikely icon for the Republican movement (Cape, €22.20); in Joseph O'Connor's Ghost Light (Harvill Secker, June, €19) the relationship between JM Synge and actress Molly Allgood is vividly reimagined, as is that of an iconic poet in Robert Waldron's novella The Secret Dublin Diary of Gerard Manley Hopkins (Brandon, February, €12.99).

Ice show therapy for grieving Mikey

Monday January 04 2010

Boyzone's Mikey Graham said training for Dancing On Ice had been a kind of therapy as he came to terms with the death of bandmate Stephen Gately.