North Clare and its Burren landscape is a barren, yet breath taking part of the country, writes Mimi Murray.

Maybe there is a game more romanticised, more mythologised than rugby.

Ten prisoners transferred to Irish prisons after receiving sentences in the UK have been freed because of a loophole in the law, the Department of Agriculture is on alert for an influx of deadly Asian hornets, the men who won Jose Mourinho the title, and the world awaits the name of the royal baby. These are some of the latest and most read news stories on irishexaminer.com this morning.

Like many children born during “the enormous upheaval of war”, as she put it herself, former BBC chief news correspondent Kate Adie was the by-product of a love affair, which led to her birth mother, Babe Dunnett, being forced to give her up for adoption.

The Nickelodeon star shares the news on Twitter.

The battle between species intensifies in the action-packed sequel Dawn of the Planet of the Apes and Britain’s Got Talent’s performing pooch wags his tail in Pudsey The Dog – The Movie.

The way the Boston Red Sox clinched the World Series this past week is almost too corny to be true.

FOLLOWING the completion of voting, officials for the National coursing meeting in Clonmel at the end of the months have been named.

Ed King

THE Kieran Lynch trained Elegant Rumble claimed his place in the semi-final of the Guinness Trophy when winning the run-off at Curraheen Park yesterday morning.

RICHARD “Dick” Winters, the Easy Company commander whose World War II exploits were made famous by the book and television mini-series Band of Brothers, died last week in central Pennsylvania.

Richard “Dick” Winters, the Second World War US officer made famous by the Band of Brothers TV series, has died aged 92 following a long battle with Parkinson’s disease.

PENNY’S GIFT dominates the market for today’s Weatherbys Super Sprint as trainer Richard Hannon goes in search of a seventh victory in the race.

Bahamian Babe showed bags of toe and a battling attitude to maintain her unbeaten record in the Langleys Solicitors EBF Marygate Stakes at York.

A film adapted from a book by Dick King-Smith (he of Babe) that tries, without the soft-centre, to be a kind of E.T.