Also, Rory McIlroy says who he’d pick as Europe’s next Ryder Cup captain, Cian Healy admits he has a penchant for snoozing and David Meyler reveals his love for The Jeremy Kyle Show.
This week, Rob Kearney attacks the Daily Telegraph, Rio Ferdinand compares One Direction to The Beatles and someone (possibly Paul Galvin) tampers with Killian Young’s shoes.
In what has been the most eventful year – like, ever – in the Twittersphere, we’ve picked our favourites from the last 12 months for your entertainment.
Eamon Fennell lives it large in Florida, Wayne Rooney shows off his new boots and Brian O’Driscoll reveals who he regards as the team to beat in the Heineken Cup this season.
Find out what Bernard Dunne had to say about David Norris, the latest in the McIlroy-Westwood saga and the identity of the one footballer that finds Piers Morgan amusing rather than irritating.
Find out about the tweet that landed Rory McIlroy in trouble, which presidential candidate Cian Healy appears to be backing and which footballler “ruined” Bernard Dunne’s weekend.
Find out which Premiership club Robbie Savage thinks will get relegated, what question Aindreas Doyle has asked Twitter’s contingent of alcoholics and which musician Jamie Heaslip has been listening to lately.
Wayne Rooney gives Liverpool fans another reason to dislike him, Barry Cahill struggles to comprehend Google Plus, Rory McIlroy chats to a less-than-sober Darren Clarke, along with much more this week in the Twittersphere.
Find out which rumour Rob Kearney was forced to deny, why Rio Ferdinand was reluctant to sit beside Michael Owen on a flight and what Conor Niland thought of Terrence Malick’s Tree of Life.
ONE OF AMERICA’S biggest child beauty pageant organisers is set to spend €20,000 staging their first-ever Irish contest in September.
The Herald reports today that beauty bosses said it will be open to “babies, toddlers and teens” and will also include a heat with kids in swimwear.
Some parents believe that contests celebrates their children’s beauty, helps them learn about camaraderie and boosts their self-confidence. While others think that beauty pageants send out the wrong kind of message to children and that the costumes and make-up involved sexualises kids.
So, today we would like to know: Would you enter your child in a beauty pageant?