Dana Delany has opened up about turning down the role of Carrie in “Sex and the City.” The actress and multiple Emmy winner, who first hit it big as Nurse Colleen McMurphy on “China Beach,” is enjoying currently stardom again on “Desperate Housewives.”

The host of ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” has reportedly found love again with a new Irish galpal.

Look out for Irish and Irish-American actors on the DVD front, as well as on the silver screen, this fall.

“ABC World News” anchor Charles Gibson announced his plans to retire at the end of the year, and Irish-American host Diane Sawyer is slated to replace him as the newscast’s anchor in January.

Talk show host Sherri Shepherd, one of the ladies of ABC’s “The View,” has revealed her “painful” love for Irish actor Jonathan Rhys Meyers.

Three feuding Irish cousins — President Obama, Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr., and Cambridge Police Sgt. James Crowley — are planning to bury the hatchet over a pint at the White on Thursday at at 6 p.m.

Legendary TV personality Ed McMahon has died at the age of 86. The Irish American, who defined the role of the television “sidekick” as Johnny Carson’s loyal right-hand-man on the “Tonight Show” for 30 years, died shortly after midnight on Tuesday at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center.

Inside Edition doesn’t like Irish accents –or maybe Irish people. Have we really become so white bread in America that accents are not allowed on television shows any more?

Irish actor Jason O'Mara's third big American break has fallen flat as ABC has axed his show "Life on Mars."

One of the most common names in Ireland, the Murphy clan has distinguished itself in every field. Among them were an Army chaplain, poet, war hero, police commissioner, and mistress. The name Murphy, the most common and widespread name in Ireland, is a derivation of the Gaelic personal name of Murchadh or Murragh, which gave rise to the different versions MacMurchadh (son of Murchadh) and O'Murchadh (descendant of Murchadh).

Irish super-group Celtic Woman made a special appearance on ABC’s TV sensation “Dancing with the Stars” tonight.

English-Irish actress Anna Friel has signed on to join the cast of the much-anticipated new crime movie, “London Boulevard.” Friel is set to play the sister of a criminal played by

Colin Farrell attended two elite private high schools. Gabriel Byrne starting acting classes at the age of 29. See the different roads to stardom for top Irish actors.

CECELIA Ahern really has the Midas touch. The 26-year-old daughter of Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern, a best-selling novelist with a batch of international hits to her name, can now add American TV hotshot to her list of accomplishments. Cecelia is the creator of the new ABC comedy series Samantha Who? which has scored some pretty impressive ratings since its debut a couple of weeks ago.

WHEN Jenny May Butler goes missing, the elusive young girl at the center of Irish author Cecelia Ahern's latest novel There's No Place Like Here sets an extraordinary tale in motion.

Many years after Jenny May's disappearance, Sandy Shortt, who still lives across the street from the missing girl who was once her nemesis, finds herself becoming more and more obsessed with missing things and people.

Now 34, Sandy has made an entire career out of tracking missing people.

YET another "rich list" was published in Ireland and the U.K. last weekend courtesy of the U.

In Desperate Housewives Dana Delany plays Katherine Mayfair, the impeccably groomed hurricane that blows through Wisteria Lane bringing sweeping change and soaring ratings. She talks to CAHIR O'DOHERTY about the show, her career and why she thinks she's becoming an Irish female bachelor.

IRISH American actress Dana Delany grew up in Stamford, Connecticut in the 1960s in a neighborhood where elegant French widows kept a tight lid on all the secrets within.

LIFE on Mars is the title of the new hit TV show on ABC that follows NYPD Detective Sam Tyler, a 2008 policeman who finds himself trapped in 1973 in New York City during the tumultuous times of the Vietnam War, Watergate, women's liberation and the civil and gay rights movements - and all without a cell phone or computer to help him out.

Mysteriously ripped from 2008, Tyler - played by Dublin native Jason O'Mara - is hurtled back in time to the early seventies after being hit by a car while chasing down a criminal. From that moment he tries to understand what's just happened to him and how he can get back home.

Irish eye on hollywood

Tom Deignan

The Irish and boxing are longtime Hollywood staples, from John Wayne as the reluctant slugger in The Quiet Man right up to Russell Crowe in Cinderella Man and Hilary Swank in Million Dollar Baby. In December, a Cork-born writer-director and quirky American actor are going to take their shot at the genre with Strength and Honor.

Buzz on the film is solid.

Top 100 Irish America's Finest in Dance . Music . Acting

The Irish have had a long history in the entertainment business, from the days when actors Errol Flynn and James Cagney graced the silver screen, Gene Kelly danced his way into hearts, and crooner Bing Crosby brought joy to millions with his heavenly voice. So too, our Top 100 honorees, dancers, musicians, stars of stage and screen, light up our lives with their particular talent.

They have made us laugh, cry, sit spellbound in our seats, and gasp in awe at their enormous talent.