Olivia Newton-John: ‘For me, my cancer has been a gift’

The star talks about her third diagnosis of cancer, taking cannabis – and why her hit film Grease shouldn’t be accused of sexism

Citizens of Boomtown: ‘Bob Geldof drove me out of my f***ing mind’

Review: Billy McGrath’s Boomtown Rats rockumentary rattles along furiously and with a dangerous gleam in its eyes

Olivia Newton-John’s infamous Grease outfit sells for $405,700

Actor auctions trousers and leather jacket worn during You’re the One That I Want

‘I had to be stitched in’: Olivia Newton-John to sell her skin-tight Grease outfit

The actor is auctioning 500 items to raise funds for her cancer centre

Miriam Lord: Scuttling things in the Dáil bars

A rat in TDs’ midst; Shane Ross’s birthday; Dr Reilly’s tie; hands, knees and boomps-a-daisy

Tell me more, tell me more: the story of Grease, 40 years on

Released four decades ago today in Ireland, the hit coming-of-age movie has barely faded

Olivia Newton-John is diagnosed with cancer for third time

‘Grease’ star reveals that doctors found a tumour in her lower back in 2017

Gathered from Coincidence review – three-disc compilation of British folk-pop classics

The dead spy, the drowned MP, the lost canoeist: the people who fake death and why they do it

Russian journalist Arkady Babchenko did it to expose a killer. But most people who fake their deaths are running from something

Grease at 40: I can no longer hate the film I despised in 1978

Donald Clarke: Resistance is futile to the singalong tunes and the unstoppable Travolta

Jimmy Osmond: ‘I’d be good in prison – I keep myself entertained’

The singer who had a hit at nine talks showbiz, ‘Grease’ and Michael Jackson’s snake

USA breaks: City slickers

It’s been a busy summer for Fionn Davenport, as he criss-crossed the United States. Here are three of his favourite cities to visit

Dead Poets Society, Grease and Harry Potter: Top class films set in school

Music, poetry and magic are the main lessons to come out of these classics

Why the Big Gay Sing is good for you

The Big Gay Sing is a karaoke-like celebration that encourages audience participation - but what it is about singing in a group that is so therapeutic?