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News18
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- News18
Did Ileana D'Cruz Just Welcome Baby No. 2? Fans Speculate After Father's Day Post
Last Updated: On Father's Day 2025, the actress took to Instagram to share a heartfelt tribute to Dolan, along with a picture of him holding a baby. Ileana D'Cruz may have just welcomed her second child with husband Michael Dolan and fans are buzzing with excitement. On Father's Day 2025, the actress took to Instagram to share a heartfelt tribute to Dolan, along with a picture of him holding a baby. While the couple has not officially confirmed the birth, the post strongly hints that their second baby might have already arrived. The touching post, reportedly shared around 3:30 PM on Sunday, showed Michael cradling a newborn. Alongside the photo, Ileana wrote, 'Happy Father's Day to the best guy ever. Nothing can explain how it feels to see the man you love turn into the most amazing parent your child deserves (sic)." The intimate moment, combined with her timing, has left fans speculating that the couple chose Father's Day to subtly announce the arrival of their newest family member. Ileana had previously confirmed her second pregnancy in October 2024, just months after celebrating her first child Koa Phoenix Dolan's first birthday. While she has maintained privacy during this pregnancy, she briefly opened up about parenting during an Ask Me Anything (AMA) session on Instagram this May. Sharing her views on love and raising children, Ileana said, 'People, and especially kids, should be taught that being cruel, wicked, unkind or selfish are not lovable traits… Love has to be earned, just like respect and happiness." She emphasized that she never wants her children to feel like they must earn her love, calling it 'the worst feeling I have ever experienced." 'I want to raise happy, healthy, kind children (I am sure all parents do) and I will do my best to ensure that I know how loved they are," she added. Her deeply personal views on motherhood offered a rare insight into her parenting philosophy. Ileana and Michael Dolan welcomed their first child, Koa Phoenix Dolan, on August 1, 2023. At the time, she shared a black-and-white picture of the newborn on Instagram and wrote, 'No words could explain how happy we are to welcome our darling boy to the world. Heart's beyond full (sic)." First Published:
RTÉ News
7 days ago
- Sport
- RTÉ News
Dolan bros looking to keep Lilies feelgood factor going
It will be a busy weekend in the Dolan household this weekend as three brothers make their way to Newbridge for a much-awaited double header featuring the Kildare hurlers and footballers. Paul and James will arrive at Cedral St Conleth's Park early in the day to link up with the hurlers as they prepare to face Dublin, while brother Niall is on the senior football panel that will host Offaly in the Tailteann Cup quarter-finals. Their father, Liam, a Tipperary native is a well-known referee within Kildare GAA circles and so the occasion will be a real family affair for the Dolan clan. Last Sunday, Paul put in a sterling performance at half back as Kildare, who had already secured Division 1B hurling for 2026, won the Joe McDonagh Cup for the first time. Dolan stormed into the game in the second half especially with a monster point and some terrific tackling. That win gives Kildare an immediate chance to test themselves at the higher level when they play Dublin in the All-Ireland preliminary quarter-final on Saturday. "We played very well in attack in the second half, but I think we can thank our full-back line for the win against Laois," Dolan said. "The lads made some brilliant tackles at crucial times when it looked like Laois might have been in on goal. "It was due to them that we had the platform to go up and get the scores at the other end. "It's a very surreal experience and I don't think I have fully grasped it yet," Dolan said. "But there are a lot of great people helping out behind the scenes in Kildare hurling. The pathway is there but the quality of coaching is top class too and that is really helping us. We have some coaches with real passion and that is evident. "John Doran has spoken about our good underage structures, and we are blessed to have some top, top coaches like Eoin Stapleton, Cian Hogan, Adrian Kinsella, Johnny Enright, Tom Walsh. Those lads have some passion for Kildare hurling and the amount of work they have done in the past few years bringing players through to the senior team is unreal." Part of the player pathway for the Kildare hurlers is to emerge from the development squads and then try to ally that experience with club, schools and colleges' hurling. It is telling many of the Kildare team played hurling for DCU including Dolan, captain Rian Boran, the excellent Simon Leacy, Daniel O'Meara, Cian Boran, James Burke, David Qualter, Darragh Melville, Liam O'Reilly, Jack Higgins, and Conor Dolan. Further down the learning ladder then, Dolan's club, Éire Óg Corra Choill, had six players on Kildare U14 development squads who travelled to Wicklow and Laois in the past few weeks. The hurling pathway is becoming clearer, and with an ever-increasing population hopes are high that Kildare can continue to achieve more at a high level across the grades. "We are certainly in a good place at the moment," Dolan says. "But there has been a huge amount of hard work put into it. "St Conleth's will be packed on Saturday and from a promotional point of view that is going to be huge. "These are the days you work hard for. "But we are under no illusion about the step up at hand now," he says. "Aside from facing Dublin, even next year playing in Division 1B and the Leinster championship we know the fight we will have on our hands. "I can only imagine the pre-season we will be facing," he says, laughing. "But you know what? It will be worth it too to get to test ourselves at that level." For now, they face a Dublin side that left it late to show any real form against Galway last day out. They may have to go to battle with injuries to some key players just six days after that seismic win over Laois, but Dolan feels they will enjoy every moment of what lies ahead. "Look, only a year ago we faced Derry in a Christy Ring Cup final game in front of a three quarter-fill Hogan Stand. And we had to work hard to get past that. Then last Sunday to see the crowd that came to support us and kids now looking up to us now when normally always it would be the footballers in the county that the kids look up to. "But we had so many clubs filling buses last Sunday and all of that drives you on. It makes us so happy to see. Hopefully we can keep inspiring them. "When we look back, we lost our first-round McDonagh Cup match against Kerry, but we drove on the work-rate after that. We felt there was more in us. That feeling after the Kerry game meant we put everything into the season after that. "Against Laois, the fact that we won the first day in the group stages gave us belief. It's dangerous playing a team in a final that you had already beaten but the management team made us believe we were good enough to be there."
The Irish Sun
7 days ago
- Sport
- The Irish Sun
Kildare believe they can build on Joe McDonagh fairytale by putting it up to Dublin, says Paul Dolan
AFTER citing one quick turn-around as a factor in their success, Paul Dolan has no intent of bemoaning Kildare's need to tackle another. Their campaign began with a defeat at home to a Kerry outfit who were ultimately relegated to the Christy Ring Cup. Advertisement But on the back of last Sunday's stunning Joe McDonagh Cup final triumph, the Lilywhites are now set to face Dublin for a place in the All-Ireland SHC quarter-finals. Dolan starred at Croke Park as an odds-defying victory over Laois saw Brian Dowling's men promoted to the Leinster Championship for 2026. But they will get a first taste of hurling at the top level by hosting the Dubs today in Newbridge. For a group of players who rightly extended their celebration of such a monumental achievement into Monday night, there has been minimal preparation time for a meeting with a team that will be fresh off a three-week break. Advertisement Read More On GAA Dolan said: 'There's a lot of outside noise relating to it, kind of in regards to the structure of the Championship and are we being put into a one-sided game. 'The six-day turnaround is what it is but we're not going to go making excuses. 'We're going to approach it the same way we approach every game. 'None of the current panel have played at senior inter-county level against a tier-one county in Championship hurling and we're getting that opportunity on Saturday. We're just relishing the challenge.' Advertisement Most read in GAA Hurling Comment Until seven weeks ago, Kildare had never won a game at Joe McDonagh level. The defeat to Kerry was their ninth in as many games in the second-tier competition. GAA fans 'loved seeing and hearing' the late Micheal O Muircheartaigh as he features in RTE documentary Hell for Leather Asked how they managed to bounce back so impressively, Dolan explained: 'The week turnaround probably helped us because there was no time to dwell on that Kerry loss. 'We were absolutely gutted. I've never felt as bad in a dressing room. I heard Brian saying the same, that he never felt as bad in a dressing room and he's had obviously heartbreak with Kilkenny. Advertisement 'Just getting to Hawkfield on the Tuesday night, we said we weren't happy with the way our work-rate was in that Kerry game. 'We just moved on to Westmeath, who are an unbelievable team who have competed in the Leinster Championship in recent years. 1 Paul Dolan is eyeing a scalp against Dublin today Credit: Sportsfile 'But we had no reason to fear them. You have to have belief at this level if you want to go and win matches. We just went into that Westmeath game and gave them a good rattle. Advertisement 'They came back at us and we kind of thought, 'Oh Jesus, déjà vu!' But we were delighted to win that game and that kickstarted the whole run.' FAMILIAR FOE Kildare and Dublin have become familiar with one another on the challenge match circuit. Indeed, the teams have already met this year in non-competitive fixtures in DCU and Abbotstown. And while this is uncharted territory for Dowling's men, Dolan is adamant that they will not suffer from an inferiority complex. Advertisement The Éire Óg Corra Choill ace said: 'When I would have been Under-14, 15, 16 or minor, our crop of players would have been going to UL to play Limerick or Páirc Uí Chaoimh to play Cork and things like this. 'We definitely played challenge matches against Dublin at Under-20s. You might not have been playing the strongest team they had available but it gave us belief. 'We were always told every single time before we played them that geography is not an excuse and that's one that stuck with me.' Dolan's brother James is also a member of the Kildare panel. Advertisement And their historic Joe McDonagh triumph spared his father, a Tipperary man, the predicament of seeing his sons in opposition to his native county on the other side of the draw. Dolan laughed: 'We were slagging him, asking who he'd support. But no, I think he'd have had a Kildare jersey on if it came about.'
Irish Daily Mirror
7 days ago
- Sport
- Irish Daily Mirror
Kildare hero Paul Dolan believes there is another big day in them for Dubs visit
Kildare and Paul Dolan aren't complaining about the position they find themselves in today - so why should anyone else? While the preliminary quarter-finals are much-maligned as snobbery abounds around the prospect of the Joe McDonagh Cup winners being afforded a route into the All-Ireland series, the gap to be bridged at this stage of the season is not as great as some might have you believe. Granted, the McDonagh Cup runners-up have suffered some terrible beatings, particularly from Munster opposition, but Dublin's trip to Cedral St Conleth's Park is just the third time that the third-placed team in Leinster has had to play the McDonagh winners. On the two previous occasions, Dublin were also involved. In 2019 they were beaten by Laois and while they beat Carlow two years ago with 10 points to spare in the end, they trailed at half-time and only burned them off with a run of 1-5 late on. 'There's a lot of outside noise relating to it, in regards to the structure of the Championship and are we being put into a completely one-sided game,' said Dolan, one of the heroes of Kildare's runaway victory over Laois last Sunday. 'Like, the six-day turnaround is what it is but we're not going to go making excuses. We're going to approach that the very same way we approach every game. 'None of the current panel have played at senior inter-county level against a tier-one county in Championship hurling and we're getting that opportunity on Saturday. We're just relishing the challenge. 'Obviously Dublin are an unbelievable side. They have pace, power and they're a good team. We're going to respect that but we've been hurling well lately so we need to have belief going into the game and we're looking forward to it." Much of the ingredients for an ambush appear to be in place with a bumper crowd expected as the game forms a double bill with the footballers' Tailteann Cup quarter-final against Offaly. 'Sometimes there might be a narrative about the hurlers and the footballers, but we like seeing the footballers do well,' Dolan noted. 'And I saw a lot of football people up there last Sunday after the game that I wouldn't ever associate with going to a hurling match, so that's great to see. 'I don't know, some people might say bandwagoners and stuff but no, that's what you want. We're trying to grow hurling in Kildare and a double-header with the footballers is only going to enhance that. It's hopefully going to be a brilliant occasion and hopefully the two teams get the results.' Like many on the Kildare panel, the Éire Óg Corra Choill man's parentage is drawn from a more traditional hurling stronghold. 'My father is actually from Lorrha in North Tipp and then a few lads that I would have grown up hurling with, one of them, their mother is a Tipp woman and then there's another one and his father's a Kilkenny man and his mother is a Tipp woman. 'We would have always gone together as groups down to Semple Stadium, Nowlan Park and all these, like a lot of the lads on the panel. 'David Qualter's dad is a big, passionate Galway man. A lad that managed us for years is a Garryspillane man from Limerick. 'There's hurling going from these Munster tier one counties into Kildare and you just gain a love for hurling through watching all these players growing up. It transpired into growing Kildare hurling then."
The Hindu
13-06-2025
- Entertainment
- The Hindu
‘I try not to stay away from tropes because they do exist': queer author Naoise Dolan
Irish novelist Naoise Dolan is often hailed as a master chronicler of modern-day relationships. Her debut novel Exciting Times was longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2021. And her latest, The Happy Couple — a perspective-driven story about two queer individuals who decide to go in for a heterosexual union — was on the longlist of the 2024 Polari Book Prize, an award that celebrates LGBTQIA+ writers' works published in the U.K. In an email conversation, Dolan shares why her fiction resonates with the current generation and what sort of queer representation appeals to her. Edited excerpts: Q: Your debut novel explored nuances, anxieties, and the messiness of modern-day relationships, and your latest, 'The Happy Couple', does the same. What draws you to this theme? A: I can't think of any good novel that isn't ultimately about relationships of some kind. Even when we write about one person grappling with some abstract non-human element, like war or addiction, we end up anthropomorphising the situation. We frame it as a friend or enemy, attribute it motives and inner thoughts. Even the most seemingly isolated character will forge a relationship with someone or the other. So, relationships are a given. As to why they're modern, it's simply that I didn't see a compelling reason to set either novel in the past. My default assumption is that I should write about the present, though that's not to say I'd rule out something historical if I saw good grounds to do it. (Indeed, I'm doing it right now with my next novel.) Q: In 'The Happy Couple', you critique heteronormativity via the protagonists' decision to get married after failed queer relationships. Was it deliberate, or did it happen organically as the story progressed? A: It just happened as the story progressed. I never want to teach my reader any lesson, or use my fiction as a direct funnel for my political views. It's more that the milieu of the novel is itself very familiar with these ideas and terms, so it would've been unnecessarily coy to pretend these people don't use words like 'heteronormative' or think about the associated concepts. But thinking doesn't necessarily translate into doing. In their life choices, these people are — for the most part — lazy. I didn't want to critique that, necessarily, just observe it. But when you observe something in enough detail, sometimes it ends up critiquing itself. Q: When crafting your characters, what are you mindful about — the tropes you stay away from, and the risks you willingly take? A: I try not to stay away from tropes because most of these people do actually exist, and I don't want to imply they're somehow dirty. Is it a problem when straight people write a novel where one gay character speaks effeminately and is obsessed with Drag Race? Yes, obviously it is. But do gay men like that exist? Yes, including several of my closest friends. Those men deserve to see themselves in books, not be dismissed as an embarrassment to the community. Is it a stereotype that lesbians are obsessed with cats? For sure, but half the women I've dated own one, and the other half curse their landlord that they can't. So, I try to think of representation not restrictively but expansively. Instead of shying away from writing a character who does something that gay people are stereotyped as doing, I just ensure there are enough other queer characters so that the entire community isn't being represented by this one person. Q: What are you working on next? A: I'm editing my third novel. It's about the rise and fall of an Irish family. It starts in the 1950s, charts the extremely mad Celtic Tiger era in the 1990s and early 2000s, and goes up to the present day. It has been fun working with a more expansive time scale. The interviewer is a Delhi-based queer writer and cultural critic. Instagram/X: @writerly_life
