WHO shot JR? This time it will be ABC and the Disney network, who are bringing back the classic TV show Dallas as a movie.

MARK CHRISTIE, one of the country’s most exciting athletes, is all set to bring down the curtain on his junior career with a stylish performance at the European Cross-country Championships in Heringsdorf, Germany, on Sunday.

Howard Keel, the broad-shouldered baritone who romanced his way through a series of glittering MGM musicals such as Showboat, Kiss Me Kate and Annie Get Your Gun and later revived his career on TV soap Dallas, has died of colon cancer.

HOWARD KEEL, the broad-shouldered baritone who romanced his way through a series of glittery MGM musicals such as Kiss Me Kate and Annie Get Your Gun and later revived his career with Dallas, died yesterday. He was 85.

MARIE DAVENPORT will provide Irish interest in Sunday’s New York City Marathon when she makes her debut over the distance alongside world record holder Paula Radcliffe, and Sonia O’Sullivan’s Australian training partner, Benita Johnson.

A paranoid schizophrenic Australian who attacked two Welsh tourists in Dublin will spend 18 months in the Central Mental Hospital as part of a two-and-a-half-year sentence.

YOU might have expected the battle-hardened golfers of Portmarnock to be just a little blasé after winning their 18th Bulmers Irish Senior Cup at Lisburn on Saturday but such was, in fact, far from the case.

Filming has begun in London on British director Peter Hewitt’s Garfield, which is based on the American comic strip about an overweight, sardonic cat saddled with a nerdy owner and a nitwit dog.

Pierce Brosnan has confirmed he will be in at least one more 007 movie after the one he's currently shooting: "I would certainly like to do another one. After that? Who knows ...."

Australia’s stubborn refusal to accept a Norwegian cargo ship that rescued 438 Afghan refugees from a sinking ferry endangers the time-honoured practice of saving people at sea, the shipping industry has warned.