Competition in the Irish television market is set to intensify after UTV announced it will launch a station in the Republic in early 2015.

UTV has vowed to go head-to-head with RTE and TV3 in a battle for Irish television viewers with a new station based in Dublin.

UTV is to launch a new television channel in the Republic, it announced today.

WITH the nights getting shorter, racing started at 6.25pm at RCYC this week. Race officers Stephen and Rebecca O’Shaughnessy with Jonathan Horgan sent the fleets out into a light south-easterly breeze on Course 93 up to No 3, then a dead run back to Cage, before a reach down to No 12 and then a beat back to Corkbeg where the wind shadow of Ft Carlisle created a few problems rounding the mark.

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Nearly three-quarters of homes in the North have broadband, it was revealed today.

Sam Mendes is returning to the theatre.

NEWS that James Bond is being put on hold has sparked concern about Daniel Craig’s future in the role.

News that Bond is being put on hold has sparked concern about Daniel Craig’s future.

James Bond’s licence to thrill was put on hold as producers announced they have suspended development of the next film in the long-running series.

TV journalists protested outside their studios in the North today over proposed job cuts.

The North's Labour Relations Agency has been urged to intervene after talks between Ulster Television management and union representatives over threatened job losses broke down today.

Ulster Television faces losing its network backbone if drastic measures to cut costs are adopted, it was revealed today.

A wildfire tore through Los Angeles’ northern foothills early today sending thousands of residents fleeing in the dark, forcing a hospital to evacuate and destroying an untold number of homes.

Producers of the new James Bond film 'Quantum of Solace' are set to anger die-hard 007 fans - they have dropped all of the superspy's catchphrases.

Bond film bosses have turned down the chance to adapt the latest 007 book for the big screen.

A new James Bond novel is being written – 40 years after the superspy’s last outing.

The new James Bond hasn’t even had his first martini yet and he’s already got another job, according to reports in the US.

With James Bond's latest outing Casino Royale due to open in November, the producers are already making plans for the 22nd film in the franchise.

The Ireland Schools team to play England schools tomorrow in the opening game of the U18 4 Nations Schools tournament shows two personnel and three positional changes to the side that played against France last weekend in a friendly.

FRENCH actress Eva Green has been signed up to play the female lead in the next Bond film Casino Royale.

The new James Bond now has his Bond Girl.

MICHAEL WILSON has been appointed head of television at UTV, where he will have responsibility for the development of all of the channel’s regional programming.

A sweeping year-long probe of the Iraq oil-for-food program has concluded that the United Nations allowed “illicit, unethical, and corrupt behaviour” to overwhelm the $64bn (€51.2bn) operation, and must adopt sweeping reforms to reclaim its credibility before taking on such tasks again.

A BUSINESS executive who wrote an email suggesting that Kofi Annan may have known about a UN oil-for-food contract awarded to his son's company denies ever talking to the UN secretary-general about the firm's bid.

The committee probing the UN oil-for-food programme has announced it will again investigate Secretary-General Kofi Annan after two previously unknown emails suggested he may have known more than he claimed about a multi-million-dollar UN contract awarded to the company that employed his son.

INVESTIGATORS of the UN oil-for-food programme said yesterday they are “urgently reviewing” new information that suggests UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan may have known more than he revealed about a contract that was awarded to the company that employed his son.

Plans for James Bond’s next mission have been delayed by a year because movie-makers are still searching for a new secret agent.

RTÉ FACES a major new challenge for viewers with the launch today of satellite channel Sky News Ireland.

RTE faces a major new challenge for viewers with the launch tomorrow of satellite channel Sky News Ireland.

Dana Broccoli, the widow of movie producer Albert “Cubby” Broccoli and the president of the company that owns the film rights to Ian Fleming’s James Bond novels, has died. She was 82.

Madonna will compose and perform the title song for Die Another Day, the latest James Bond film, the producers said today in New York.

Madonna will compose and sing the title song for the new James Bond film Die Another Day.