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.”

Sarah Jessica Parker, who has five-month-old twin daughters, Loretta and Tabitha, with her Irish-American actor husband Matthew Broderick, loves everything about being a mother, especially the less glamorous jobs.

Donegal Town woke to excitement yesterday morning as the word spread that one of the world’s most famous actresses, “Sex in the City” star Sarah Jessica Parker, was in town.

Perfume maker Coty is suing an Long Island perfume company for the unauthorized sale of Sarah Jessica Parker’s "Lovely" scent.

Sarah Jessica Parker and Irish-American husband Matthew Broderick will be taking their newborn twin daughters Marion Loretta Elwell and Tabitha Hodge Broderick to their holiday home in Donegal this summer. Donegal mayor Brendan Byrne has said that he would work with locals to allow the couple to expand their cottage for the twins.

Next stop Ireland! Sarah Jessica Parker and husband Matthew Broderick are taking their new twin daughters Marion and Tabitha to Ireland this summer to visit his parents and their Irish relatives.

World famous Irish milliner Philip Treacy, who’s designed hats Camilla Parker Bowles and Sarah Jessica Parker’s, has made his latest creation, and feels that women will not scrimp when it come to what they wear on their heads.

Irish dancers, Samuel Beckett and an Irish-American ogre represent the Irish theater contingent in this year’s Tony Award nominations. “Billy Elliot, the Musical” leads the entire pack of nominees with 15 nominations, including Best Musical and a Best Leading Actor in a Musical nod to the “Billys."

"Sex and the City" star Sarah Jessica Parker and husband Matthew Broderick are expecting twin girls this summer though a surrogate mother. The couple, who are regular visitors to County Donegal with their 6-year-old son James, are "overjoyed," said their publicists.

Ireland looks set to host the hit movie 'Sex and the City' if Sarah Jessica Parker has her way!

Beware: Here comes yet another writer from the U.K. whose publishers are offering up comparisons to "Sex and the City" and "Bridget Jones' Diary.

If the new film "He's Just Not That Into You" is to be believed, most women just don't get men. Or rather, they get plenty of men, they just can't get them to stay. Men don't stay because, well, they're men, see.

CALL Belfast the new Irish Hollywood. A galaxy of stars will soon take over the city as they begin filming City of Ember, a Tom Hanks-produced film that stars Bill Murray, Tim Robbins and Martin Landau. Production has already commenced, so celebrity sightings shouldn't be far behind.

AT the ninth annual Magners Irish Film Festival this week in Boston one rule seems to apply - each new Irish film must explore the complexities of modern Irish life.

In this ambition the organizers have succeeded admirably. Screenings of important new feature films like director John Boorman's controversial Celtic Tiger satire The Tiger's Tale will receive their first U.

IT was a case of VIP gridlock alert in Dublin last week, and celebrity watchers were the gleeful beneficiaries. A gaggle of stars - Mel, Daniel, Bo, Colin, Charlize to name a few - arrived in the Irish capital for a whole bunch of events that firmly established Dublin as a stop on the celeb map of cool places to be seen.

The photos speak for themselves, right? Many of the notables walked the red carpet at the Irish Film and Television Awards on Sunday night at the Gaiety Theatre, chief among them Mel Gibson, who picked up an award for outstanding contribution to world cinema.

THE movie event of the summer - at least in our eyes - won't see the light of day in several Irish cities.

Sex and the City - The Movie opens here on May 30, but one of Ireland's biggest cineplex chains, IMC, says it will not distribute the film. It's not because of moral outrage over, say, Samantha's sexy antics, but rather a dispute with a British company that's handling the distribution.

THOUGH Sex and the City was the quintessential New York series, you wouldn't know it these days. The highly anticipated film had its world premiere in London - London?!?!?! - on Monday night, and the one and only Sarah Jessica Parker was garbed in a dress by British designer Alexander McQueen, and a hat, if you could call it that, by Irish milliner Philip Treacy.

It's the green thing on top of her head that's garnering all the hype.

Michael Patrick King is the Irish American writer and director of Sex and the City: The Movie, the sure to be blockbuster that finally arrives in theaters on Friday. He talks to CAHIR O'DOHERTY about his Irish background, bringing the iconic series to the big screen, and the enduring importance of love and friendship.

MICHAEL Patrick King didn't start at the top.

FRESH off her massive success with the film version of Sex and the City, Sarah Jessica Parker and her hubby Matthew Broderick are heading for their Irish bolthole for some much needed R&R.

Broderick spilled the beans on the holiday plans during an outing in the Hamptons last weekend. "My family and I are staying out here until the middle of August, and then we are all going to Ireland together," Broderick told People magazine during a fundraiser there.

THAT was quite a tribute to Irish writer Samuel Beckett staged last week at Lincoln Center during the well received Gate/Beckett Festival.

You'll read a review of show stars Liam Neeson and Ralph Fiennes elsewhere in this issue, but they weren't the only ones who turned out in force to pay tribute to the Irish master.

Julianne Moore read from Beckett's novels and poetry, and some of his dramatic works, while Cynthia Nixon, the Sex and the City star who is an accomplished stage actress, read excerpts from Beckett's "Murphy," "Company" and "Watt.

IT'S been quite a summer for Sarah Jessica Parker. She starred in one of the season's top box office hits, Sex and the City: The Movie, and was later undoubtedly rocked by reports that her husband Matthew Broderick cheated in the city with a twentysomething youngster while she was on location. But all seems well with the Broderick clan these days.

HIGH School Musical 3 cutie Vanessa Hudgens has plenty to smile about these days, seeing that the Disney film cleaned up big-time at the box office last weekend not only in the U.S. but around the world.

The movie event of the year for fans of Sex and the City finally arrives this week. APRIL DREW spoke to some Irish fans of the show to get their thoughts.GIRLS far and wide have finally found an excuse to wear their horrendously expensive pair of Manolo Blahniks, a sexy cocktail dress and sport the most fabulous bag in town while confidently strutting their stuff on their way to the much anticipated Sex and the City: The Movie which hits theaters this Friday.

PREDICTABLY, the Sex and the City film opened last month with massive success.But what is the reason for the original popularity of the story of four single, talented women who can't seem to find a good man? Clearly it's because there are scores of females in the city can relate to such a dilemma.And if you're dating in an Irish community in New York city, the dynamic gets even more interesting.

When I first came to America three years ago, I wasn't impressed. Everything seemed familiar from the movies, and nothing was beautiful in the European sense that I had become accustomed to. I had a fun vacation traveling around with my friend, from New York to Miami to San Diego to Chicago, but decided I'd never waste spare holidays by coming here again.

She'll soon be playing our favorite maneater Samantha Jones in the upcoming "Sex and the City" movie, but in the meantime the ageless Kim Cattrall has been spending time in Ireland working on another project, "My Boy Jack," which also stars Daniel Radcliffe, best known for his starring role in the "Harry Potter" film series.

Kim took time out from her schedule in nearby Co. Wicklow to attend the Dublin Horse Show on Sunday, one of the top events on Dublin's social calendar.