Jim Sheridan admires how Colin Farrell turned his life around.

The heat is on and the clothes are off in the fourth chapter of the high-energy dance franchise, which propelled Channing Tatum’s star into the ascendancy in 2006.

Grabbers (15A) sounds like a bad Paddy Irishman joke, but Jon Wright’s offbeat tale of a remote Irish island besieged by alien invaders that can only be repulsed by copious amounts of booze is in fact a nifty variation on the B-movie horror flick.

IT’S NOT exactly yet another remake of A Star is Born, but Burlesque (US/12A/119 mins) is the latest Hollywood movie to tell the time-honoured tale of a star-struck hopeful who arrives in LA a nobody and triumphs against the odds to see her name up in lights.

TEEMING with tanned, fit talent, soaked in sunshine and rife with goodwill, there was something for everyone in the audience on the first day of the JP McManus Pro Am where starlets and Ordinary Joes combined forces for the greater good.

The race to replace Crossmaglen as AIB Ulster Club Senior Football champions heated up this afternoon, with the four rescheduled quarter-finals taking place.

A film that considers the problems of the title character, suffering from Aspergers Syndrome (Dancy) and how a growing relationship with Beth (Buchwald), who has her own troubled background, promises future happiness.

The American teenage soap opera The OC has been cancelled.

Magnetic activity by the sun has a huge effect on communications, radio, power supplies and even the future of space travel, a Nasa scientist told a Dublin audience today as his colleagues waited nervously for space shuttle Discovery’s return.

A 21-year-old Dublin man was today convicted of the manslaughter of a young electronic technician who was randomly stabbed as he stood outside a house in a north Dublin suburb in 2001.

Adam Sandler is an acquired taste - and Gary Cooper he 'aint!

THE conclusion of the Irish Karting Championships, the penultimate rounds of two forest rally championships and the motorcycle short circuit races dominate weekend action.

The inquiry heard evidence from a man who said he pushed one of the Bloody Sunday wounded into open ground seconds before she was shot.