It’s the morning of the 1916 All-Ireland hurling final. The Tipperary hurlers are in Dublin — they walk down the quays and turn left onto Sackville Street.

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Genghis Khan had an extraordinary mind and was a master psychologist and knew how to use cruelty to succeed. A new biography, finds Richard Fitzpatrick, explains how he became such a dominant figure.

Controversy surrounds the excavation of an ancient tomb in Greece which a leading archaeologist had suggested could be linked to the family of Alexander the Great.

Suzanne Harrington reviews Blood Beneath the Skin by Andrew Wilson, a new book on the life of fashion’s enfant terrible, Alexander, ‘Lee’ McQueen,  whose personal life was marred by drugs and depression. 

Briege Corkery, along with her Cork colleague Rena Buckley, is on the verge of claiming the highest All-Ireland medal count in GAA history, not that she thinks about such things. There might be life left in the dual star so – and there’s certainly plenty of life in this one.

RECENTLY, I got to spend a few days in Turkey’s capital. I can quickly warm to a city like Ankara.

And so Championship 2012 ended with the most predictable winners imaginable after the least predictable journey imaginable.

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When trying to describe how good someone is in the women’s game the best recourse is to turn to the men’s game.

AT a coffee house, on a desert road, an ancient trade route where caravans once carried spices and silks from distant lands to Petra, I smoked my first hookah.

The Golden Mean

THE stout woman behind the ticket booth at Istanbul’s sprawling Otagor bus station looks quizzical, “Thessaloniki?”.

About 200,000 people gathered in Macedonia’s capital Skopje to attend celebrations for the Balkan country’s 20th anniversary of independence.

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THERE will be more than a football match on the horizon when Giovanni Trapattoni lands with his Ireland team in an airport named after Alexander The Great just outside Skopje tonight.

Fiona Sexton

IT really is a hoot — if you’re in the mood for laughing.

A PRICELESS gold wreath has been unearthed in an ancient city in northern Greece, buried with human bones in a large copper vase that workers initially took for a landmine.

Alexander the Great founded Alexandria to immortalise his name amid his quest to conquer the world – but it was apparently not the first city on Egypt’s Mediterranean coast.

Moviemaker Oliver Stone has petitioned Iranian officials in a bid to make a biopic about President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

GREEK archaeologists said yesterday they had discovered the largest underground tomb in Greek antiquity in the ancient city of Pella in northern Greece, birthplace of Alexander the Great.

Jared Leto has slammed reports his on-screen kiss with Alexander co-star Colin Farrell was edited out of the biopic - insisting the homosexual act was never part of the script.

Director Oliver Stone has slammed American audiences as homophobic, and blames this prejudice for the flop of his latest movie Alexander in the US.

Hellraiser Colin Farrell developed such an emotional tie to historical figure Alexander The Great, he spent a day weeping at the grave of the Macedonian warrior's father.

Oliver Stone is lining up another historical figure for his next biopic: former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.

IN the US, every Thanksgiving must have a turkey. But at the time of year when more Americans go to the cinema than at any other, this year’s award goes to Colin Farrell in Alexander.

Film-maker Oliver Stone, whose latest movie Alexander has been panned by US critics, thinks the three hour epic will get a better welcome in Europe.

Irish actor Colin Farrell is challenging a group of Greek lawyers to sue him for portraying Alexander the Great as bisexual in new movie Alexander.

The Greeks are the latest people to complain about Oliver Stone’s portrayal of Alexander the Great as bisexual.

There’s still a long way to go before the nominations for the 2005 Academy Awards, but already two Irish stars are attracting attention … for films we haven’t even seen yet.

Colin Farrell has praised director Oliver Stone's "brutal honesty" on the set of upcoming epic Alexander.

Hollywood bosses have slammed reports the release of historical epic Alexander has been delayed because the movie is "too gay".

Hollywood hunk Jared Leto shocked a journalist during a recent interview with a gay magazine, by pretending to be gay himself.

Actor Colin Farrell was recovering from a foot injury today after he slipped and fell on the stairway of his Bangkok hotel.

Irish smoothie Colin Farrell once again demonstrates his gift of the vernacular while explaining his new movie Alexander won’t be dominated by the homosexual elements in the plot.

The US has handed military control over a huge swathe of Iraq to a Polish commander during a ceremony in the ruins of an amphitheatre built by Alexander the Great near Babylon.

Actor Anthony Hopkins is in talks to star as Gwyneth Paltrow’s father in a new film about a troubled genius.

Dubliner Colin Farrell has achieved the rare feat of starring in four films this year which have reached No 1 in the box office charts.

ACTOR Colin Farrell hasn’t just been hitting the weights to prepare for the role of Alexander the Great. The notoriously brash actor is hitting the books, too.

Colin Farrell's reputation as a ladies man is well deserved by all accounts but it appears for his next role he will be kissing more than girls.

The battle is on to bring Alexander the Great to the screen ...with two star-studded films racing for the tape.

Suddenly Leonardo DiCaprio is flavour of the month again.