As the popcorn goes stale on another cinema-going year, film critic Damon Smith looks forward to the action-packed blockbusters, heartbreaking dramas, uproarious comedies and potential Oscar winners that will be lighting up the big screen over the next 12 months

Diana Hogan-Murphy, from Montenotte in Cork City, on finishing the Boston Marathon and the terrifying ordeal that followed

Officials investigating the Boston Marathon bombing said no additional explosive devices have been discovered other than the two that detonated near the race’s finish line, a development that could complicate the case.

IT WAS as good a Patriots Day, as good a marathon day, as any; dry and seasonably warm but not hot like last year.

Police are reported to be searching a flat in a Boston suburb as part of the investigation into the explosions near the finish line of the Boston Marathon.