A group of Cork-based comic book artists have released their first anthology in the midst of what is being describd as a new golden age of comics, writes Don O’Mahony.

ROY HODGSON praised the performance of West Brom striker Shane Long after his headed winner in a 2-1 success over Bolton at the Hawthorns.

Roy Hodgson hailed the performance of West Brom striker Shane Long after his headed winner in a 2-1 success over Bolton at the Hawthorns.

The script for the second 'Tintin' movie is under discussion, with the screenwriter saying it's hard to please everyone involved in the movie.

'The Adventures Of Tintin: The Secret Of The Unicorn' is the opening salvo of a proposed trilogy, amalgamating the plots of 'The Crab With The Golden Claws', 'The Secret Of The Unicorn' and 'Red Rackham’s Treasure'.

DIRTY tricks and skulduggery at the heart of an election campaign?

As president of the European Council, Herman Van Rompuy, will need to use all his negotiating skills to pull together an increasingly fractious eurozone at a time when the very future of the euro is threatened, writes Kyran Fitzgerald.

A CERTAIN Belgian boy reporter named Tintin was the first to reach the moon, the Vatican newspaper joked yesterday, as the world marked 40 years since the Apollo 11 lunar landing.

JUST when you thought our sleaze-splattered banking sector could hardly get much murkier, up pops a money mystery worthy of Hercule Poirot.

Daniel Craig and Jamie Bell are to lead a largely British cast in an animated film version of one of the Tintin adventures.

Steven Spielberg insists he is still in the director's chair for the first outing of the eagerly awaited 'Tintin' franchise - despite the studio who owns the comic strip's copyright insisting moviemaker Peter Jackson is at the helm of the debut big screen venture.

STEVEN SPIELBERG and Peter Jackson are to join forces to direct and produce three films based on the beloved Belgian comic-strip hero, Tintin.