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Katya Virshilas and Pasha Kovalev will be known to fans of hit TV show Strictly Come Dancing and now the pair are dancing their way to Ireland for three live shows based on musicals and Hollywood films. They talk to Brian Campbell

Advice for fathers on dealing with their daughters

Leona O'Neill reflects on what makes a good father. And remembering the values her own father instilled in her, she has compiled a list of rule fathers of daughters can abide by A FRIEND of mine's only child, a daughter, is turning 13 this

Foster carers needed to help change lives

THE Fostering Network and the Regional Adoption and Fostering Service have issued an urgent call for foster carers to help change the lives of children and young people across Northern Ireland.

Launching Foster Care

Will the real Eric Bana stand up?

Hollywood heart-throb Eric Bana has come a long way since his stand-up comedy days in Australia and, as he tells Scene, it doesn't look like he'll ever go back ERIC Bana's big break was an interesting one. "Imagine a dark, gritty film about a

Mary's bug is catching bug is catching

While many think they know the story of Typhoid Mary - the Tyrone immigrant, Mary Mallon, who unwittingly spread typhoid around New York - Irish-American fiction writer Mary Beth Keane begs to differ.

AP Maginness talks to

The great Leonardo
By He's a three-time Oscar nominee

THERE IS always a certain amount of hysteria surrounding summer blockbusters but Baz Luhrmann's new big-screen adaptation of F Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 novel The Great Gatsby has surpassed all the usual hype.

IN THE NEWS

Western haven to refresh mind, body and spirit

Charming accommodation, glorious scenery, great food and total tranquillity. Barbara Collins takes a much-needed break at Delphi Lodge in Connemara I WAS expecting to have a rather "tweedy" time at Delphi Lodge. I knew it was a country pile once visited by Prince Charles on a fishing trip. I also knew it was remote, but I wasn't prepared to feel quite so removed from the 21st century. This place is far out, but in a very, very good way.

Music and movement
By Anne Hailes

ISN'T it just the best thing when you create something special to show family and friends? You get that good feeling if a birthday cake turns out to be perfect, a photograph captures the moment, you reach a high note for the first time,

Netting a bargain

ARGOS is running its gift voucher promotion again until tomorrow. Spend £50 or more in store and

US priest hopes for 'a brighter, betterNorthern Ireland'

THE last time New York priest Fr Joe Parkes was in Belfast it was the height of the Troubles and his

Macabre celebration

The show features your interpretations of tunes by and associated with great musicians who died at

Get THE look

SHE may firstly be known for Disney work but rising star Bella Thorne is fast becoming 2013's most

Helping hand through the grief of a stillbirth

When Anne Marie Smyth's first son Colin was 'born asleep' in 2010 she was devastated. But she tells

The good, the bad and the Hooley T

Today sees the long-awaited cinema release of Good Vibrations, which tells the story of record shop