MOBILE providers in Ireland have joined forces to provide a new text donation facility for charities.
The six mobile providers -- Vodafone, O2, Three, Meteor, Tesco Mobile and eMobile -- have launched the donation service that ensures 100pc of the money raised goes directly to the charity.
Donors can now send a message with a keyword dedicated to their charity using free-text number 50300.
If ever a band has been well served by the literary world it's The Beatles. Practically every aspect of that revolutionary body of work has been dealt with in book form... or so one would have thought. From Hunter Davies' The Beatles, through Philip Norman's Shout, Bob Spitz's humongously detailed history and Ian McDonald's brilliant Revolution in the Head, which offered a musical and contextual analysis of every song they ever recorded, surely there's nothing left of interest to diehard fans of the Fabs. Well, think again.
Bruce Forsyth has ended speculation by signing up for the next series of Strictly Come Dancing.
EUROVISION hopeful Ryan Dolan got a bird's-eye view of the song contest yesterday – courtesy of Ana Matronic of Scissor Sisters.
Thieves have ripped a safe from the wall of a hotel room near the Cannes Film Festival and made off with around $1m (€780,000) worth of jewellery.
NEWSREADER Susan Jackson "looked super" while delivering the headlines on Morning Ireland in a hoodie and Superman T-shirt.
On Friday night I'd: Be grateful for a night at home after a week of going out. I've discovered a pleasure unknown to the young – the pleasure of not going out.
THE estranged wife of former Ireland goalkeeper Shay Given joined friends Georgina Byrne and Cecelia Ahern at the annual CARI lunch.
PUPILS at a South Dublin school welcomed charity campaigner Ali Hewson to tell her about their project helping others less fortunate than themselves.
FORMER Westlife star Nicky Byrne is to be one of the two hosts of RTE summer music show The Hit.
Sharon Horgan is hitting the psychiatrist's couch for a new ironic sketch show looking at powerful females from history.
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