Yes Robin Hood is getting an origins film, with star of Kingsman Tarron Egerton to play the eponymous Robin Hood.

This Tipp team might be on the threshold of greatness, writes PM O’Sullivan.

So Leicester lost away at newly promoted Hull, and this weekend we were the better side in a 0-0 draw with Arsenal. Had it not been for a couple of questionable penalty decisions that didn’t go Leicester’s way from referee Mark Clattenburg, most fans would have been delighted to have taken a point from the mighty Arsenal. So we only drew with Arsenal. Only!

No April fools, these movies are ready for your eyeballs including some sports drama and a honest to goodness one take wonder

HOW does George Lucas get through the forest? Ewoks. That’s a bad joke and we apologise. But at least it’s intended as a joke, unlike recent Star Wars games.

Rarely have I heard a film title as bad as Robin Hood: Origins but that's certainly not going to stop it being made.

The Cold War is heading for deep freeze as Bridge of Spies (12A) opens in 1957 with the capture of Russian spy Rudolf Abel (Mark Rylance) in New York. 

Bill Linnane spends a spell on Speyside and discovers how Scottish distillers have a lot to teach the booming Irish whiskey trade.

If you were to go back and think of Thomas Was Alone and imagine what the developer would make next, it probably wouldn't be Volume.

USA: A hen owned by a Massachusetts woman who specialises in chicken rehabilitation and rescue is getting fitted with a prosthetic leg at Tufts University’s Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine.

Summer may be the big time for blockbuster movies but its the latter part of the year which sees the major gaming releases, gearing up for the big rush of Christmas.

David O’Mahony steps back in time to discover the ‘Magna Carta’. 

THERE was a strange moment during the last 10 minutes of the Ireland-England rugby match last weekend. England were attacking the Irish line. It was a situation for phrases that evoke warfare: ‘battering’, ‘pummelling’, ‘last-ditch effort’, ‘holding on grimly’ and ‘Paul O’Connell’.

GERMANY: This could be Germany’s very own Watergate. The German spy agency’s new headquarters was flooded by water after several taps were removed by thieves on its upper floors, police said.

USA:

IT is a mystery to most ordinary people why there have been so few convictions or meaningful sanctions imposed on people involved in selling illicit or doctored motor fuels. 

USA: A woman and her daughter both gave birth at the same hospital in Florida on the same day.

This government’s behaviour for the past four years is the antithesis of Robin Hood being “rob the poor, middle, elderly and sick to pay the rich” Rates on houses and water tax are totally regressive and unjust because they bear no relationship to people’s ability to pay.

USA: Police in Northern California say a man robbed a petrol station only to return hours later to give the money back and apologise. 

The family of an Irishman are at war in New Zealand over his €300m business empire.

The BBC has edited this Saturday’s episode of Doctor Who to remove a scene where a character is beheaded after the murder of two journalists by Islamic State militants.

Limerick City Council held its final meeting this evening after 817 years, ahead of being merged with the County Council on June 1.

Malcolm Gladwell, author of bestsellers The Tipping Point, Outliers, and What the Dog Saw, this year offered a typically provocative take on what it really means to be the underdog.

What Fresh Lunacy is this? The authorised biography of Oliver Reed

James ‘Whitey’ Bulger is no longer the feared man who swaggered around south Boston and later became one of America’s most-wanted fugitives.

Lobbying against the EU’s Robin Hood-style financial transaction tax has been ramped up following the apparent intervention of the European Central Bank.

Robin Hood did not rob from the rich to feed the poor in Sherwood Forest — he was a freedom fighter attacking French invaders in Kent, a historian has claimed.

A project designed to generate energy from the waves off the west coast of Ireland was awarded almost €20m by the European Commission to scale up its plans.

A project designed to generate energy from the waves off the west coast of Ireland was awarded almost €20m by the European Commission to scale up its plans.

The Shadow of What We Were

Camelot has emerged as clear favourite for tomorrow’s Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe at Longchamp after faring far better than market rival Orfevre in the draw for stalls positions.

Nathaniel and Snow Fairy appear among the 12 entries for Saturday’s Red Mills Irish Champion Stakes at Leopardstown.

Frankel demolished perhaps the final obstacle blocking his completion as the blueprint of the perfect thoroughbred racehorse in the Juddmonte International Stakes at York yesterday.

Connections of Coral-Eclipse winner Nathaniel are unlikely to take on Frankel in next Wednesday’s Juddmonte International Stakes unless there is significant rain at York.

Earlier this week the children’s charity Barnardos announced that, because of funding difficulties, it had decided to withdraw its services for a week and put its staff on unpaid leave.

The skeleton of Australia’s most notorious criminal will finally be returned to his family 132 years after he was executed.

In this afternoon's King George (4.35) at Ascot, Nathaniel will bid to become the first horse since Swain (1997/98) to win successive runnings of the Group 1 race.

Jockey Pat Smullen believes St Nicholas Abbey is the one to beat in tomorrow’s King George VI And Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Ascot.