Hammer Films, that most British of outfits that brought us some wonderful – and wonderfully awful – horror films in the 1960s-70s, continues its revival with this second outing, though with the action moved from the foggy mists of Victorian England to contemporary New York.

DARREN SUTHERLAND and Conor Ahern got Ireland’shopes off to a flying start at the Olympic qualifying tournament in Athens yesterday but while Sutherland will be back in action today, Ahern faces an anxious wait to see if he can box tomorrow after sustaining a cut eye in his flyweight contest.

RICHARD ZEDNIK felt a stabbing pain in his neck and knew he had to get to the bench — fast.