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Star says three-year-old Katie Rodgers who lost her battle with the rare mitochondrial disease was a "little princess" Heartbroken Mrs Brown’s Boys star Danny O'Carroll has told of his sadness over the death of a sick girl he met just 12 days ago. The 31-year-old, who plays Buster in the hit BBC One comedy, said three-year-old Katie Rodgers was “a little princess” and the news was simply “dreadful”. Katie passed away in Dublin Temple Street Hospital after battling the rare mitochondrial diseasethat attacks vital cells in the body. The tot, from Arranmore, Co Donegal, Ireland was with her parents when she passed away, reports the Irish Mirror. Danny added: "I'm shocked, she was just gorgeous. It’s crazy to think I was with her just two weeks ago in Letterkenny and she took a bit of a shine to me and was hugging me and playing with me. "To look at her you wouldn't think anything was wrong with her. Her movement was...

THE star of Mrs Brown’s Boys has shared heartwarming words of support with the Pavilion as the iconic theatre faces two months of closure following last week’s devastating Sauchiehall Street fire. Replying back to a tweet from the  Evening Times  on the news, Brendan O’Carroll said to general manager Iain Gordon on Tuesday: “Such a pity - however I’ll bet Iain already has plans for a spectacular re-opening! We believe in you Iain xx.” O’Carroll, 62 - who portrays foul-mouthed matriarch Agnes Brown in the smash-hit BBC series - first got his big break with Mrs Brown’s Boys when it appeared at the Pavilion in the late 1990s. The Evening Times ✔ @TheEveningTimes 26 Mar Pavilion bosses devastated after being told they must close for two months due to fire demolition http://www. eveningtimes.co.uk/news/16116733. _Saddest_day___Pavilion_Theatre_to_be_shut_for_two_months_due_to_fire_demolition/  … ...

Ethan Russo’s  Amid the national opioid addiction crisis, one of the oldest known compounds believed to ease pain is getting a second look from a small group of drugmakers and developers. It’s pot. While some studies suggest medical benefits from cannabis, most fall short of the gold standard of randomized clinical trials. The plant’s classification as a controlled substance and the spotty patchwork of state laws governing legality have limited the scope of the studies. “There is an unmet need for a cannabis-based medicine that has the hallmarks of a modern medicine: one that does not vary every time the patient takes it, [one where we have] a full understanding of its safety and efficacy against placebo, one that is fully characterized, [where the] interactions it may have with other drugs that patients are taking [are known],” said Stephen Schultz, VP of investor relations at GW Pharmaceuticals plc. The company is currently working on bringing the f...

TUNING in for the BBC’s Ten O’ Clock news I caught the last few minutes of Mrs Brown’s Boys. Don’t tell me you like it. It’s a mirror to our coarsening as a people. And I suppose we’re all infected. As the once-taboo F word spilled from the foul-mouthed matriarch’s lips seemingly in every other sentence, I was almost (but not quite) provoked to respond in kind and shout back at her: “Shut the f*** up.” EMBRACE: Tiger Roll ridden by jockey Davy Russell (right) wins the Randox Health Grand National Handicap Chase ahead of Pleasant Company ridden by jockey David Mullins  Picture: DAVID DAVIES/PA A NEWSPAPER report of last Saturday’s Grand National began: “As Davy Russell steered home the diminutive Tiger Roll to victory by a head, high in Aintree’s Princess Royal stand came the familiar confetti shower of ripped up betting slips from the disappointed punters who had backed other horses.” Perhaps before ...

The Notorious appeared in court on Friday after being charged with three counts of assault and one count of criminal mischief Former Mrs Brown's Boys star Rory Cowan has hit out at Conor McGregor following the controversial New York bus attack. The Notorious appeared in court on Friday after being charged with three counts of assault and one count of criminal mischief. Cowan said there's "no excusing" the UFC fighter's actions in the Big Apple. He posted on Twitter: "If he was 19, or even a younger teenager, you could maybe excuse his actions. And put them down to bring [being] young and foolish. But he’s 29. He should know better. There’s really no excusing his behavior in New York." McGregor posted a cryptic tweet in his first social media post since the controversial New York bus attack on Monday morning The Notorious broke his silence for the first time since his arrest with the post, repeating the act ...

Unless you’ve been living in a nuclear bunker for the past 10 years, you’ve probably heard of the BBC sitcom Mrs Brown’s Boys. The vast majority of us have been exposed to it, and it’s man-in-a-dress star Brendan O’Carroll. The Irish comedian, who plays the titular ‘mammy’ Mrs Agnes Brown, has been performing as his comedy creation since 1992.  His popular sitcom, which is about a family’s daily trials and tribulations (and, more importantly, what the dirty grandma has to say about them), has been running now for seven years. So what do we know about its cross-dressing protagonist, Brendan? Brendan, 62, was born in September 1955 in Finglas, Dublin, and his paternal grandfather was a prominent Irish republican.  When Brendan was seven his dad died, leaving his mum struggling to raise her children on little income.  He left school aged 12 and went on to have a number of diff...