Kelly Osbourne fears she will turn to drink and drugs when 'Dancing with the Stars' ends. The 25-year-old presenter is concerned she will lapse back into substance abuse when she has more time on her hands but is doing her best to avoid repeating her self-destructive habits.

A little girl, Ruby Ayoub, who would have been six this week, was buried in Dublin on Monday following her death from meningitis which doctors wrongly diagnosed as swine flu.

For Irish woman Angela Nolan and English man Liam Adcock, Irish rugby was their true love. That was, until they met each other on Facebook. Now, both of their statuses read: “Married.”

Irish and Leinster center Brian O’Driscoll is planning a five star wedding week as he and fiancee, Amy Huberman, reserved the exclusive Lough Rynn Castle in Leitrim for their nuptials next year.

A sudden family death in Ireland, an upcoming wedding and all kinds of emotional upheaval. Irish Voice reporter April Drew has had an eventful week, and here, as she prepared to leave New York for Ireland, she describes the sad scenes at the JFK departure lounge.

Irish sports star Donal Og Cusack’s decision to come out in his autobiography has been a massive step forward for Irish society. However, that doesn't make it any easier for the Cusack family, and Donal Og's mother Bonnie Cusack has said that her husband is having problems coming to terms with the issue.

Before you take the plunge or allow your Irish boyfriend to put a ring on it, please review IrishCentral's list of the pros and cons of marrying an Irishman. It just might save your sanity, or at least it will prepare you for the madness that awaits.

Irish weddings are big business and while the recession is certainly cooling down the more extravagant affairs there will still be an estimated 30,000 weddings in Ireland this year. That means there will be literally thousands of opportunities for fools to make eegits of themselves.

Middleweight John Duddy was in upbeat form at a press conference in midtown Manhattan, New York on Thursday, ahead of his Madison Square Garden bout against Michi Munoz on October 10.

Irish boxer John Duddy has just broken thousands of Irish hearts! He's finally marrying long-time sweetheart Grainne Coll in Derry. The two were married at a small ceremony in the Beech Hill hotel in the Waterside.

Some of us read, some of us take up a sport, but Thomas Keown from Co. Down spends all his free time rescuing, housing and educating parentless street children in Africa.

A host of Irish stars, including Bono and golfer Padraig Harrington, jetted into Clare today for the wedding of Corrs sister Andrea and her billionaire fiancé.

The County Clare newlyweds who welcomed 300 stranded U.S. troops to their Irish wedding celebration had U.S. Ambassador to Ireland Dan Rooney and his wife Patricia over for tea at their new abode.

"Mamma Mia" and ABBA fans have gone so crazy for Irish star Pierce Brosnan that they've even tried to steal his flip-flops from the Greek island where the movie was made! The flip-flops, hanging from a nail in the office of a local travel agent on the Greek island of Skopelos, have had to be nailed down to protect them from the advances of the droves of devoted "Mamma Mia" and ABBA fans who flock there.

Though he’s happily lived with his male partner for more than 12 years, Irish Voice reporter CAHIR O’DOHERTY cannot marry because marriage and immigration laws don’t jibe in the U.S., and he’s wondering when they ever will.

U.S. soldiers were given a true Irish welcome at a wedding in Co Clare this week. The 300 troops were stranded in Shannon last weekend after their Iraq-bound plane was grounded.

While all of Ireland will be celebrating the impending nuptials of Irish pop goddess Andrea Corr, local members of Doonbeg’s famous links course are likely to be well teed off after receiving a letter telling them to stay away on the day of the wedding.

The most familiar sound at a feis is normally the jigging of the accordions, keyboards and violins, the instruments that typically accompany Irish step-dancing. At the Rockland County Feis, another noise was in the mix, sharp and sustained – the pipes. More than 35 pipe bands competed at the festival, and it’s one of the bigger pipe band contests in the country.

Senator Edward Kennedy was featured on a remarkable documentary on HBO this week entitled “Teddy In His Own Words,” which is well worth watching either in repeat or on HBO Rewind.

The husband of an Irish-born woman who grew up in Pennsylvania was charged with her brutal murder in early June.

It's been a gay weekend in Ireland with a massive parade in the city center today and the news that the Government will recognize same-sex gay couples. The legislation falls short of granting the same rights as straight married couples and was derided by many marchers as "half measures."

Colin Farrell’s big brother Eamon is officially married – at least in Canada.

Extremely successful reality TV producer Mark Burnett has come up with TV gold including “Survior,” “The Bachelor” and “The Apprentice.” His newest reality show is called “Wedding Day,” where the cast and crew build a deserving couple, including a traditional Irish bride and groom, the wedding of their dreams.

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.

A few Irish wedding tit-bits of information that are good to know and better not forgotten!

Edythe Preet on the many Irish wedding traditions that make tying the knot Celtic style such a momentous occasion.

A happy occasion will soon take place for Colin Farrell and his family – the actor’s younger brother Eamon will tie the knot with his long-time partner, Dublin artist Stephen Mannion.

Beneath his charming exterior, Ireland's so-called 'most-romantic man' has a few skeltons in his closet. And God only knows what they're doing!

To celebrate the March 15 launch of IrishCentral.com and to encourage people to visit the first global website "for everything Irish, for everyone Irish," we opened up the vault and held a big contest with a single grand prize - and a great one. Now, here's our winner...

The Irish couple who met each other on their wedding day have split – just seven days after their bizarre nuptials. The former bride, Bebhinn O’Keefe, 25, said she had split from 31-year-old  Alan Healy shortly after they returned from honeymoon. "I didn't see much of Alan on the holiday and I don't want to either," Bebhinn

There is an Irish wedding-related proverb that states: "Marry in May and rue the day" and finishes with: "Marry in April if you can, joy for maiden and for man." Whether you choose to believe this superstition or not, no matter what month you marry in, you can recreate an "authentic" Celtic wedding, complete with traditions that Irish couples have practiced for thousands of years.

Charlize Theron, the South African-born actress and girlfriend of Irish actor and director Stuart Townsend, is speaking out against current American marriage laws, calling them “caveman,” and a “form of apartheid”

It mightn't have been love at first sight - but it was certainly a marriage at first sight for one Irish couple!

The most requested song of the day by the couple and the guests alike, was the Pogues’ hit “Fairytale of New York.”

On December 5, 2009, I will marry John Mooney, a fine Limerick export, and I just can't wait! As I cleverly dodged the patches of ice on the Manhattan sidewalks last Wednesday morning on my way into the office, I quietly pondered the ingredients of a successful long-lasting marriage. What is it that makes a marriage last? I wondered. Is it good communication? Having the same circle of friends perhaps? Maybe passion? Unsure and badly wanting the answer, I decided to ask the experts, those who have gone before us and withstood the test of time (and many a disagreement or two).

A couple who are planning to tie the knot in Ireland must adhere to a number of regulations for the marriage to be legally recognized by the state. Regardless of the kind of ceremony the bride and groom are planning to have in Ireland, the state must be provided with three month's notice of intention to marry. It is, in most cases, required by the state that the notice be given in person to a local registrar three months in advance of the marriage; however, in very restricted circumstances (maybe the bride and groom are undocumented and can't travel before the wedding) then an allowance may be made to meet the registrar a number of days before the marriage.

Dear MTN, I wrote to you a year ago and told you about a guy I was introduced to that I already know he was a "committed phobe", but that he asked me to move in with him, and since I don't want to get married anyway, I thought it was a good idea. You told me not to do it, it would end in heartache. Well, I hate to say it, but you were right.

Dear MTN, I really need help and I am very embarrassed that I have to write to you. My name is Bob, and I was planning on getting married with the loveliest gal in the world. She was from the same County in Ireland that I am from, as well as where your family is from - as you've mentioned before.

Dear MTN, Help. I just found out my boyfriend of nine months has been cheating on me. Things were great, we just went on vacation together three weeks ago and things were fine.

Dear MTN, Help! My father and mother are getting divorced and I'm stuck in the middle. I'm 25 years old and engaged to a great guy. We have our wedding plans all set for October, and now my parents have thrown a wrench into everything.

Dear MTN, My girlfriend of six years and I are thinking of getting married. I'm sure you've heard this before, but she is everything you could ever want in a girl. She is 31, beautiful, sweet, slim, with a great job.

Here are some quick tips to help find Mr./Ms. wonderful.

John McGahern's first novel "The Barracks" was published in the U.S. in 2004.

The bride's favorite song is "Three Times a Lady" by Lionel Richie, so what's a daddy to do if he wants to really please his only little girl? If the father in question is billionaire J.P. McManus, one of Ireland's richest men, the answer's easy just call Lionel's people, arrange a deal and bring him over to Ireland to play the song live at the wedding.

WELL, the headlines just keep coming courtesy of Peaches Geldof, the teenage daughter of Bob Geldof who's a gift from heaven for the British tabloids.

Word on Tuesday was that Peaches, 19, got hitched in a Las Vegas chapel to a musician she's known for a few weeks. The couple issued a statement saying they were "delighted to announce their very happy marriage.

NEW York's Rose of Tralee, attorney Lisa Murtagh, who won the international title in Ireland last summer, will move permanently to Ireland for another very special occasion in September.Murtagh will walk up the aisle to marry her long-time boyfriend Brian Fitzgerald from Askeaton, Co. Limerick.

IRISH television reporter Aine ni Ghallchoir has spoken of her joy that a priest-uncle who won a battle against deportation from the U.S. will be a guest at her wedding in Co.

Once again, Charlize Townsend, the South African Oscar winner, and her Irish boyfriend Stuart Townsend are referring to themselves as husband and wife, even though, in the eyes of the law, they're not legally wed. Actually it was Charlize who called Stu her "husband" during an interview last week, and showed off the band she wears on her ring finger as evidence of their commitment. She was asked why she has chosen to produce a film from two novice directors and replied, "I look at my husband today and I wonder, 'What was it that you said that made me stick around for seven years.

When I was young I had the habit of staring off into space. We might be sitting at the kitchen table cutting string beans for dinner when I'd go into a trance-like state. My mother, Nora, always said that I reminded her of her mother, who used to do the same thing.