Ticket sales should be limited for individuals and identity checks made in order to clamp down on ticket touting, TDs have said.

Director Antoine Fuqua has been doing a great job in recent years with hits like The Equalizer and The Magnificent Seven, and his next project represents a whole new challenge.

It’s one thing knowing the outcome of the Brexit referendum. It’s quite another thing to act on it.

By the time Saul Williams got to poetry, he already had a solid grounding in hip-hop culture, writes Richard Fitzpatrick.

Troubled middle Ireland crowded into Courtroom 1 at Limerick’s County Courthouse yesterday.

Travis Tygart will forever be known as the man who brought Lance Armstrong down. The USADA chief executive explains how he has managed to retain his love for sport despite all he’s uncovered

"Kinsale doesn’t really do austerity," declared one fashionable lady, holding a glass of champagne as she nibbled on a dainty morsel of pâté de fois gras.

The habit of giving nicknames has been around a long time and can say a lot about the recipient — or not. Dave Kenny does some research

Hot Sauce. Al Capone. 2Tap. Uncle Creepy. The Notorious.

One of the most popular songs of all time, Bob Dylan’s Like A Rolling Stone, could fetch up to $2m at auction.

One of the most popular songs of all time, Bob Dylan’s Like A Rolling Stone, is going under the hammer in New York this summer.

Your guide on what to look out for on the box tonight.

People in Latin America and South American countries claim the Americans are great champions of independence movements, except in their own back yard.

Mexican drug cartels whose operatives once rarely ventured beyond the US border are dispatching some of their most trusted agents to live and work deep inside the US — an emboldened presence that experts believe is meant to tighten their grip on the world’s most lucrative narcotics market and maximise profits.

As Eugene McGee wiped away a tear after Saturday’s black card vote, it all became clear: labour of love, as it was for him, it still had taken its toll on the Football Review Committee (FRC) chairman.

A drug kingpin in Mexico is being named as Chicago’s public enemy No 1 — a label first given to gangster Al Capone and one that hasn’t been used since the 1930s.

The most high profile rebranding of a US sports team of the past decade needs all the help it can get and the Brooklyn Nets ticked two important boxes this week: they beat the New York Knicks on Monday night and got into a fight in Boston on Wednesday.

Even without allegations that he paid for sex with an under-age prostitute and tried to cover it up, issues under consideration by a Milanese court, former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi cut a sinister if preposterous figure.

Bob Hoskins’s retirement after being diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease brings the curtain down on a distinguished career.

FORMER CAB boss Barry Galvin has told how he helped to nab an international supplier for the Iranian missile programme in his latest role in cleaning up the criminal justice system in the Seychelles.

Shooting Angels

A HANDGUN once owned by gangster Al Capone sold for €75,300 at an auction in London.

WITH Sky Atlantic debuting on Tuesday, it’s been quite a while since the launch of a new subscription channel created such a fuss.

IN response to Ryle Dwyer’s column headlined ‘El Chapo – the Mexican drugs czar whose influence we should all fear’ (September 4), it should be noted that drugs did not spawn Mexico’s organised crime networks.

Security guard Larry Daley (Ben Stiller) has left behind his old job at New York City’s famed Museum Of Natural History to front his own company, which has just launched a glow-in-the-dark torch.

AS gardaí investigate three violent deaths in Kerry, Dublin and Tipperary, a call has been made on the Government to hold an emergency debate on spiralling lawlessness.

The latest victim of gangland warfare was gunned down in a hail of bullets as he fled several armed men, it emerged tonight.

Hollywood just can’t let sleeping dogs lie, the suits simply must squeeze every last drop from an idea. Thus we have the second of what threatens to be an endless series of films in which museum exhibits come to life.

A hitman whose victims included bikers, Mafiosi and innocent bystanders has admitted 27 charges of murder in a case that makes him one of Canada’s worst killers.

GIVEN the glum mood of the nation, this will surely be the least romantic Valentine’s Day since Al Capone.

Heath Ledger’s role as The Joker has made it into the top 10 of a poll of UK film fans to find the ultimate villain.

The way conspiracy theories grow demonstrates the need for investigations to be seen to be thorough and impartial.

The CIA recruited a former FBI agent to approach two of America’s most-wanted mobsters and gave them poison pills meant for Fidel Castro during his first year in power, according to newly-declassified papers.

The man who was once US vice president Dick Cheney’s closest adviser is facing up to 25 years behind bars after being convicted of lying and obstructing a media leak investigation that shook the top levels of the Bush administration.

A BOOKKEEPER for a construction materials company embezzled $6.9 million (€5.3m) and used the money to go on a shopping spree that included a 104-acre ranch and a half-dozen talking trees like those in The Wizard of Oz, federal authorities said.

Fine Gael's Justice Spokesperson, Jim O' Keefe has called on the Justice Minister to tackle what he said is a never-ending spate of gun crime.

THE killing of Donna Cleary would seem to have been related to drugs. The chief suspect, Dwayne Foster, was reportedly high on a lethal cocktail of heroin and cocaine.

WHENEVER a deceased person is perceived, rightly or wrongly, to have been unfairly accused, vilified or misrepresented in the media, we hear renewed calls for the extension of the libel laws to embrace the reputations of the dead.

A lawyer for a British journalist found guilty of libelling an alleged drugs baron said the court ruling represented a precedent-setting setback for press freedom in Peru.

MARLON Brando’s portrayal of Don Vito Corleone in The Godfather has been voted the most memorable movie gangster of all time.

Marlon Brando’s portrayal of Don Vito Corleone in The Godfather has been voted the most memorable movie gangster of all time.