65 m. ago The moment I knew: he bared his soul in a performance, and I fell for his sensitive side

When Mitch launched into a piano recital at his birthday party, his friends were gobsmacked by his hidden talent. Eoin O’Dwyer knew he was the man he had to marryFind more stories from The moment I knew seriesNobody spoke about being gay in Ireland. I come from a big Catholic family – six kids, millions of cousins – from a rural part of the country, and I didn’t think there was anyone like me. Although my parents and family have been unwavering in their support from the day I came out in 2001, they also understood my need to leave a country where, back then, a religion that didn’t recognise me was so dominant.Cities like Sydney are queer beacons, and when a career opportunity arose I moved to a job at St Vincent’s hospital. That’s when I met Mitch, at a Mardi Gras party. Continue reading...

Politics

67 m. ago Neil Critchley's Hearts critics get bigger and louder as botched job now requires immediate repair work

Strengthening narrative on big matches started to hurt Hearts boss after top-six tumble

Society

1 hour ago Scottish football pitch invasion after title win as Neil Lennon gets huge result and makes 'hardest job' claim

Another day of action outside of Premiership as Pars chalk up important victory

Events

4 h. ago Russian mafia boss, 55, gunned down by assassin wearing chemical warfare protection suit

Shocking CCTV footage caught the moment a Russian mafia boss was brutally shot outside his home by a coldblooded assassin wearing a hazmat suit - with an onlooker stunned to silence during the horror moment

Economics

4 h. ago Hay fever cures already in your kitchen as experts say to ditch the antihistamines

With warmer weather comes allergy season - and for Brits with hay fever, antihistamines can be expensive. Here are five natural hay fever remedies you already have at home.

Politics

5 h. ago ‘I'm UK's oldest builder – and still going strong after 80 years on the job’

Nonagenarian winner of oldest construction worker competition campaigns for better quality apprenticeships to train young people to get a trade like him and his family

Politics

5 h. ago I worked at a theme park for 3 years – my five warnings for UK Universal Studios staff

OPINION: This is not a drill, Universal Studios UK is happening and it won't just be adrenaline junkies thrilled at the news, but Brits buzzing for a brand new job – I suggest they heed my warnings

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5 h. ago The brutal comment Princess Anne made about Mike Tindall's nose before he married Zara Phillips

Mike Tindall and Zara Phillips' wedding was nothing short of perfect. But Princess Anne allegedly had one gripe about her beloved daughter's big day - her son-in-law's nose.

Politics

10 h. ago Rogue doctors stole one woman’s eggs to get another patient pregnant. What happened next is an unlikely tale of friendship against the odds

When it emerged that a fertility clinic had made one woman pregnant with another’s baby, Renée Ballou and Carole LieberWilkins were advised to ‘lawyer up’. Instead they did something extraordinary – even as one raised the other’s biological childRenée Ballou thought she was a lucky person. In the 1980s, she was living in a beautiful home an hour’s drive from Los Angeles, with a job she loved, a happy marriage and a young son. Everything had always felt so easy for Renée – until she began trying for a second child. Two years on, she still wasn’t pregnant. “I was pretty much used to getting what I wanted,” Renée, now 67, tells me with a sad smile. “It was very stressful.”Along with her husband, Wesley, Renée went through a battery of tests, followed by years of surgeries, supplements and hormones. Her gynaecologist referred them to Dr Sergio Stone, a fertility specialist at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) in Orange County, for more treatment. They tried artificial inse...

Science

10 h. ago Moment nursery worker filmed slamming toddler against wall moans about losing her job in foul

Four employees at the Casanueces nursery in Torrejon de Ardoz, Madrid province, were released yesterday as Spanish authorities opened an investigation into a case of alleged child abuse.

Economics

11 h. ago Police chief says he wants to 'discriminate against white job applicants' so he can hire more ethnic minority officers

Chief Constable John Robins of West Yorkshire Police has consistently pushed to reform laws across the country in order to boost the number of ethnic minorities in his force.

Events

12 h. ago EastEnders' Natalie Cassidy lands surprising new job in big step away from soap after exit

EastEnders star Natalie Cassidy has landed a surprising new job after her exit from the soap, taking on a completely different role away from Albert Square

Politics

14 h. ago In need of eveningwear inspo? Ditch the dated ditsy florals and go for this anti

'I need a stylish outfit for my 56th wedding-anniversary dinner'

Politics

14 h. ago Louise Thompson shares ‘best cleanser ever’ for removing everything ‘in just one swoop’

Louise Thompson recently shared parts of her beauty regime with fans as she got some bathtub RNR - and one product she was raving about is one she hailed the 'best cleaner ever'

Politics

14 h. ago Barry Island pleasure park denies it offered job paying £5.55 an hour

The fairground suggested the person who advertised the job had 'some sort of grudge against us'

Economics

14 h. ago Name by Constance Debré review – a demolition of bourgeois life

The French author takes aim at marriage, childhood and her illustrious family name in the finale of a landmark autofictional trilogy“What is your name? My name is Nobody, a name is nothing, like family, like childhood, I don’t believe in it, I don’t want it.” Constance Debré has a grand name – her grandfather was the prime minister who drafted the French constitution – and she’s long been trying to disgrace it. She is driven by a mixture of petulant rebellion, existential longing for erasure and revolutionary anarchism. A decade ago she left behind her husband, job as a criminal defence lawyer, furniture and crockery to embark on a new life of casual sex with women and iconoclastic, fervent writing.Following Love Me Tender and Playboy, Name is the final instalment in the autofictional trilogy where, with fury, disdain and panache, Debré has recorded her revulsion at bourgeois life and at the legal system that allowed her ex-husband to remove their son because of her h...

Politics

15 h. ago 'I met a stranger on a bus and minutes later we killed my boyfriend'

Ashley White met a man on the bus and after telling him how her boyfriend had mocked her over a job interview - the pair agreed to kill him

Events

18 h. ago Masters caddie's harsh message to Jordan Spieth revealed as golf star is caught swearing on hot mic

The 2015 winner was flirting with the cut line during day two at Augusta National with his Masters fate coming down to the final hole and he made his frustration known to his caddie, Michael Greller.

Events

22 h. ago Actor Josh Duhamel reveals reasons for ditching Los Angeles and living ‘off

The actor is building a house in the woods in Minnesota

Politics

23 h. ago Man 'killed wife and kept dead body in car' as he went for job interview

Jorge Mares Raygoza, 47, has been charged with the murder of his wife Coral Llamas Sifuentes, 45, after he allegedly strangled her to death in a motel in Texas, US, and then left her body in the car

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