Des O’Driscoll shares five things to do this week in the world of arts

“If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs

Barry Murphy, Risteard Cooper and Garry Cooke put an Aprés Match spin on the general election of 1982 on  RTÉ One, on Wednesday at 10.35pm.

The Jungle Book is back in 2016, with a mostly CG film that's being directed by Jon Favreau and bringing together an amazing voice cast including Bill Murray, Christopher Walken, Idris Elba, Ben Kingsley and Scarlett Johansson.

The first trailer for the new version of The Jungle Book is here, and it's coming from the director of Iron Man. Which is a bit weird.

The top 50 books for children to read have been released, and Roald Dahl remains at number one.

Tomorrow the people of Scotland will vote on those most powerful and seductive ideas — the freedom to manage their own affairs and the intoxicating prospect of ending a relationship with a once-brutal and dominant neighbour that Scottish nationalists have, for centuries, described as exploitative, limiting, outdated, unwelcome, and a tarnished relic of a kind of Rudyard Kipling imperialism no longer acceptable, in Europe at least.

A dethroned 16-year-old beauty queen from Burma said she won’t return her bejewelled $100,000 (€76,000) crown until pageant organisers apologise for calling her a liar and a thief-

Benedict Cumberbatch will get to flash his fangs when he voices villainous tiger Shere Khan in Andy Serkis’ Jungle Book: Origins movie.

Bill Murray will voice Baloo the bear in 'The Jungle Book'.

Lupita Nyong'o and Scarlett Johansson are in talks to star in 'The Jungle Book'.

Tune into TV3 at 10pm tonight for The People's Debate with Vincent Browne. The motion for debate tonight is “The liberation of women in Ireland has yet to be accomplished."

A ‘map’ tells the story of the city’s poems, songs and characters, says Richard Fitzpatrick.

Andy Serkis says his adaptation of 'The Jungle Book' doesn't "shy away from darkness".

Sticky problem

However England got on last night — it doesn’t matter anyway, since they have decided not to win the next World Cup — it was a long week for the current undisputed holder of the All-England Controvassy title.

Russian authorities have found a young man living alone in a Siberian forest after having apparently spent most of his life living there in a hut with his parents, local officials said.

Disney is developing a live action adaptation of 'The Jungle Book'.

A republic this may be, but there was a royal funeral in Ventry yesterday — footballing royalty but royalty nonetheless, the funeral of Rí an Ríocht, Páidí Ó Sé.

It is a century since Edgar Rice Burroughs’s iconic creation appeared in print. Richard Fitzpatrick looks at the evolution of oneof the most famous fictional characters of our times

Jamie Mackie scored a dramatic injury-time winner to move QPR out of the relegation zone to leave Kenny Dalglish stunned at Loftus Road last night.

QPR 3 Liverpool 2

A well-preserved historic crocodile skull has been declared a new species.

ROD BLAGOJEVICH, the ousted Illinois governor whose three-year battle against criminal charges became a spectacle, was sentenced to 14 years in prison yesterday, a stiff penalty for the man convicted of trying to sell President Barack Obama’s vacated Senate seat to raise campaign cash or land a high-paying job.

For where the old thick laurels grow, along the thin red wall, You find the tool and potting sheds which are the heart of all.

WHETHER as player or manager, there was never a more proud or more fiercely competitive individual on a hurling field than Brian Cody.

WE’VE reached the moment that the Romans celebrated with the Festival of Janus, the two-faced god who managed to look both forwards and backwards at once.

Daniel Radcliffe is swapping 'Harry Potter' for hammer horror to star in gothic thriller 'The Woman in Black', it was confirmed today.

SOMEBODY once wrote that gardeners are women who love flowers or men who hate weeds.

FAMILY and friends celebrated the eventful life of TV chef Keith Floyd at a humanist funeral yesterday, but his celebrity peers were notable by their absence.

All of this, of course, reinforced the compelling message I had picked up in Stronge’s bar. That all of us can access meaning through art.

RUSSIAN police have taken into care a five-year-old girl who has been shut up in a flat in the company of cats and dogs for her entire life, police said yesterday.

RUDYARD Kipling wrote: “Oh, East is East and West is West, and never the twain shall meet.” Well, never say never, Rudyard.

If you can keep your head when all about you

THINKING of the behaviour of the Cork train drivers this week brought Rudyard Kipling to mind. It was he who first coined the term “power without responsibility”.

ITV1 is to screen a fly-on-the-wall documentary revealing how author JK Rowling wrote her final Harry Potter book.

ITV1 is to screen a fly-on-the-wall documentary revealing how author JK Rowling wrote her final Harry Potter book.

Sex in the City’s Kim Cattrall joins Harry Potter – Daniel Radcliffe – when shooting starts in Dublin in July on My Boy Jack, about Rudyard Kipling’s search for his son, missing during WW1.

Ireland is again proving its popularity with film makers after plans were revealed today for two new international television series to be shot during the summer.

Stand by for some summer Pottermania in Dublin.

Harry Potter actor Daniel Radcliffe is set to surprise fans with his latest gritty role - as a World War One soldier fighting in the trenches in France.

TAKING a paperclip and turning it into a house sounds like a cheesy magic trick or a phoney instance of resourcefulness on the 1980s TV show MacGyver. Canadian Kyle MacDonald, however, has pulled it off.

Taking a paperclip and turning it into a house sounds like a cheesy magic trick or a phoney instance of resourcefulness on the 1980s TV show MacGyver. Canadian Kyle MacDonald, however, has pulled it off.