IT has been the subject of almost as many rumours as one of its key character’s demise, but film legends Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro may finally be set to start shooting gangster movie, The Irishman.

James F. Neal, the lawyer who regularly grabbed headlines - whether prosecuting Jimmy Hoffa or key Watergate figures, or defending Elvis Presley's doctor or the Exxon Corp after the Alaska oil spill - has died. He was 81.

'Goodfellas' director Martin Scorsese and the movie's star Robert De Niro are returning to the murky underworld of the New York mob for a new gangster film.

The informant said to have spurred the search for union boss Jimmy Hoffa’s remains on a Michigan farm is an ailing prisoner who, his former lawyer claims, first told the FBI about the location 30 years ago.

Blood found on the floor of a Detroit home is not that of missing Teamsters union leader, Jimmy Hoffa, police said today.

NEARLY 28 years after union leader Jimmy Hoffa disappeared in the Detroit area, US law enforcement officials dug the ground yesterday outside a home nearly 100 miles away, a prosecutor said.

HEART MIDOLTIAN impressed at Cork earlier in the month and he is napped to do the business again in the O’Mahony Packaging Hurdle at Tralee today.