Here is an analysis of some of the claims made in the second presidential debate.

One of the last major infrastructural projects to be unveiled in Ireland in recent years is to be named after the patriot who first raised the green, white and orange tricolour which became our national flag.

The triage system of treating patients was developed by an Irish nurse on US battlefields, Robert Hume reveals.

SIXTH in the Irish 2,000 Guineas and narrowly beaten at listed level, the John Oxx trained Zabarajad scraped home to land odds of 30/100 in the opening Bennettsbridge Maiden at Gowran Park last night.

SOUTH African Keagan Latham enjoyed a welcome change of luck when Muckle Bahoochie provided him with his first success of the season in the opening www.dundalkstadium.com 2-Y-0 Maiden at Dundalk last night.

COOLMORE sire Dylan Thomas made an immediate impact with his first runner, Snowflake Dancer, which prevailed in a blanket finish to the opening two-year-old maiden at Dundalk last night, and then survived a Stewards Enquiry.

DUNDALK: 6.30 Snowflake Dancer; 8.00 President Lincoln; 8.30 Barrow Island; 9.25 Isabbellareine

MICHAEL HALFORD’S Barrow Island gets the nap in the Dundalk Stadium On Facebook Maiden at the first meeting of the new season at the Co Louth track tonight.

TODAY is work/life balance day. You may not thank me for bringing it to your attention. Because ‘work/life balance’ is a concept we all feel we should feel warm towards. But the very phrase bores us rigid.

World leaders will light an eternal flame, and former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani will lead a reading of the names of 2,823 victims to mark the anniversary of the World Trade Centre attack.