A clique of rich teenage girls has been arrested in connection with the robbery at Lindsay Lohan’s Hollywood home.

Glamorous Irish-American actress and model Megan Fox, 23, has been confirmed to replace Victoria Beckham as the female face of Armani next year.

Another week in college football means another shift in the power rankings. AJ Voelpel's take on the top twelve teams in the nation.

Out with the old, in with the new: Kathy Griffin used to hang out with the likes of former BFF Paris Hilton on “Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List,” but now she’s moved on to a new best friend forever: Kate Gosselin.

Madonna refused to let Lindsay Lohan into a VIP party last week. But it wasn’t because the Queen of Pop was turned off by the “Mean Girls” star’s hard-partying ways, as might be expected, but because she’s actually jealous of the 23-year-old troubled starlet.

Soccer fans swarmed a luxury hotel in Ireland last night to catch a glimpse of Cristiano Ronaldo, the most expensive soccer player in history. Ronaldo is in Ireland for pre-season training with his new club

The Wolfhound, as a certified (don't say it!) member of the press, loves it when some rich dolt puts his foot in his mouth. But it's even more pathetic when the dolt sticks his foot in his arse first, THEN puts it in his mouth. Meet U2 drummer Larry Mullen!

Worried about where you’re standing on the ladder to high fashion? Well worry no more says Barney’s style legend Simon Doonan, there is no one particularly fashionable look nowadays, there is only how you want to look. Irish Central talks to the man whose laugh out loud book, Eccentric Glamour: Creating an Insanely More Fabulous You, is now on sale.

It’s often said that the Irish are adept story tellers. Little wonder then that the Irish in America have proven themselves to be among the most accomplished journalists in the country.

John Spinks' father wasn't an artist, but his life will live on in art. When Spinks' elderly English father began to write affectionate slice-of-life letters to his emigrant artist son in America in the 1980s, he never imagined for a minute that those private correspondences would one day end up on canvases, being viewed by strangers. The working class Newcastle man voted conservative all his life and would not have welcomed the scrutiny of a public gallery, but there's no denying the strange power of a letter between intimates - his son has just taken it a step further by making their private correspondence a subject for his art.

BOB Geldof isn't too thrilled about Al Gore's Live Earth concerts in July, as we told you last week, but it looks like he's got a bigger battle on his hands his 16-year-old daughter Pixie apparently is hell bent on following in the footsteps of Lindsay Lohan and other similar celebrity losers.

Pixie, according to the British tab News of the World, has been suspended from her posh London school, Alleyn, for drinking and smoking, and Sir Bob, rightfully, is freaking out. Now, you might think NOTW isn't the most reliable of sources, but since everyone has the potential to be a paparazzi these days thanks to camera phones, the tabloid has snaps of a boozing and puffing Pixie to prove it.

JAILBIRD Paris Hilton certainly is smart as a whip when it comes to generating headlines screaming for mommy after she was hauled back to the slam last week was a hoot! but when it comes to civics and current events, well, she's got some brushing up to do.

There was a funny piece by Barry Egan in the Sunday Independent last weekend when he reported on his trip to Los Angeles last October, courtesy of La Hilton, who was due in Ireland to promote her perfume line. She kept him waiting for a lunch date for two hours, and then, surprise, surprise, continually chatted on her two cell phones during the interview.

Irish "talent" manager Louis Walsh, creator of bands such as Boyzone, Westlife and others who've had big success abroad, but none at all here, has it right on another over-hyped band attempting a comeback - Britain's Spice Girls.

Walsh, who stars alongside Simon Cowell in the U.K.

FASHION can be acquired, but style is something you're born with. Simon Doonan knows all about it. Now a sprightly 55-year-old at the top of his game, he is - he says - a man who is lucky enough to be doing what he loves.

THIS column usually dishes out the plaudits at Thanksgiving every year. This time, however, I'd like to plant my tongue firmly in my cheek.

Thanksgiving really is my favorite American holiday.

Boston Irish For Hillary

ANOTHER major fundraiser for Senator Hillary Clinton by leading Irish Americans will take place in Boston on September 7. It will be the latest in a series of fundraising events that Irish communities across the U.S.

Ireland Left Out In Visas

THE annual list of successful applicants for the Schumer DV-1 diversity visas was released again this week, and it makes hard reading for anyone Irish and undocumented.

The Schumer diversity visas called after Senator Chuck Schumer from New York who created the scheme was an Irish American initiative back in the early 1990s after the death of the Morrison and Donnelly visa programs. The idea was that a percentage of visas would go to countries that currently have no access to America.

Ciaran Hinds is set to appear with Paris Hilton in a (for now untitled) comedy-drama about family and war. As far as we know, everyone will be keeping their clothes on. Allison Janney and Charlotte Rampling will join them in this new film from critics' darling Todd Solondz, best known for "Happiness.

Van Morrison was born in Belfast in 1945, the son of a shipyard worker who collected American blues and jazz records.

According to his press kit that accompanies his new CD, Keep it Simple (Lost Highway Records), Van grew up listening to the music of Muddy Waters, Mahalia Jackson, Lightnin' Hopkins and John Lee Hooker. Surrounded by every kind of musical influence - country, blues, jazz, and folk - from 13 he was playing guitar, sax and harmonica with a series of local Irish showbands, skiffle and rock'n'roll groups.