WHEN I read the text of the proposed 30th amendment of the Constitution the first thing that came to mind was “Star Chamber”.

THE end of filming of hit series The Tudors resulted in operating profits at Ardmore Studios declining by 41% last year to €386,094.

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HE has been criticised for being far too good-looking to play Henry VIII in the hit historical drama The Tudors.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers 'became' Henry VIII while playing the English king in TV series 'The Tudors', and stayed in character for the entire five-and-a-half-month shoot.

Richard Collins on how swans were seen in medieval England

More than 20 Irish production companies will travel to Los Angeles this month to promote the country’s film industry to some of the world’s top studio executives.

The first episode of The Tudors, the glossy drama featuring the rampant early life of a “sexy” King Henry VIII, pulled in 3.2 million viewers, the BBC said.

Richard Collins visits a Stockholm museum to see a naval wonder from a bygone era.

A DIVORCED woman and her ex-husband’s brother, who have been in a 20-year relationship, are free to marry each other after the High Court yesterday declared unconstitutional an early 20th century law that prevented them from marrying each other while the woman’s husband is still alive.

NI-born Sam Neill joins Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Henry Cavill and Jeremy Northam in the up-coming costume series, The Tudors, with Meyers playing Henry VIII.

Feast day of St Guinoch, St Martin I, pope, Saints Carpus, Papylus, and Agathonice, St Hermenegild, and St Martius.

Oscar winner Philip Seymour Hoffman is reportedly in talks to take on another real-life role - Henry VIII.

Controversial historian Dr David Starkey was accused today of “stupid English prejudice” after claiming that Scotland was not important.