After Hurricane Irene in 2011, a couple of Bruce Springsteen fans were visiting the New Jersey Shore town of Belmar, a defining district of the so-called Irish Riviera.

Areas on the US east coast are racing to remove untold tons of debris from waters hardest hit by Superstorm Sandy before the summer swimming and boating seasons begin.

US and European markets were in the red yesterday as disappointing, if not unexpected, US economic data was released.

The 11th-hour US compromise deal satisfied few people fully and saw a vital vote on a $60bn aid package for Sandy victims delayed, giving an outraged Governor Chris Christie a chance to take centre stage, writes Kyran Fitzgerald

A woman charged with trying to swindle donors by posing as a relative of a child killed in the Connecticut school massacre had allegedly also been soliciting money for Hurricane Sandy relief.

Insurance company Zurich estimates damage claims relating to Superstorm Sandy will hit its fourth quarter earnings by $700m.

Musicians were so intent upon helping victims of Superstorm Sandy that they did not seem to want their benefit concert in New York to end.

New York came to sunny West Cork as Clonakilty got its bite of the Big Apple’s Hurricane Sandy mop-up and 2,500 athletes worked up a pre-Christmas appetite at the town’s third Waterfront Marathon series of races.

The US economy added 146,000 jobs in November and the unemployment rate fell to 7.7%, the lowest since December 2008, with the government saying Superstorm Sandy had only a minimal effect on the figures.

The FTSE 100 Index held its position at a two-month high today as investors awaited direction from the latest update on the US economy.

Governments must speed up talks on a joint response to global warming, which is an “existential challenge for the whole human race”, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has warned.

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg appealed to congressional leaders for quick action on providing tens of billions of dollars in new federal aid to help his city and state and others recover from Superstorm Sandy but was told it might be some time before it is forthcoming – and it likely will not be all at once.

The Mayor of New York Michael Bloomberg says the total cost to the city of Hurricane Sandy is over $19bn (€14.6bn).

Extreme weather events such as superstorm Sandy and this summer’s drought in the US will become more frequent as the climate changes.

Gwyneth Paltrow has volunteered to be auctioned off as a lunch date.

Justin Bieber is doing his bit to help Hurricane Sandy victims.

From Sandy to the elections, New York has dominated the headlines. Resident expert Douglas Rogers encourages tourists to return to the city with his best budget tips.

New York has imposed a petrol rationing plan that allows motorists to fill up every other day as the city continued to feel the effects of Superstorm Sandy.

New York city mayor Michael Bloomberg has ordered the rationing of fuel due to a severe shortage caused by Superstorm Sandy.

Lady Gaga has donated $1m (€780,000) to help victims of hurricane Sandy.

Coastal residents of New York and New Jersey faced fresh warnings to evacuate their homes today as a new storm took aim, a week after Superstorm Sandy left dozens dead and millions without power.

Impatient New Jersey voters queued up amid rubble and rubbish left by Superstorm Sandy as election officials scrambled to open makeshift polling stations on time.

With more than 130m Americans heading out to vote and some queuing for hours, reports of polling problems in key battleground states as well as the flood effected areas of post-Sandy New York and New Jersey caused some concern for both parties.

Voting was the latest challenge for the hundreds of thousands of people in the New York-New Jersey area still affected by Superstorm Sandy.

Ben Roethlisberger threw two touchdown passes on Sunday to help Pittsburgh beat the New York Giants 24-20 in an NFL game played with Hurricane Sandy’s devastation as a backdrop.

A new storm is expected to hit the New York-New Jersey region still cleaning up after the battering from superstorm Sandy.

Lady Gaga played the "biggest show" ever staged in Costa Rica.

NBC says its benefit concert for superstorm Sandy victims drew nearly $23m (€18m) in donations to the American Red Cross.

Victims of superstorm Sandy on the US east coast struggled against the cold early yesterday amid fuel shortages and power outages even as officials fretted about getting voters displaced by the storm to polling stations for tomorrow’s presidential election.

Falling temperatures on the East Coast today put more people at risk in a region already battling petrol shortages, power cuts and spasms of lawlessness in the wake of Superstorm Sandy.

The lights are back on in lower Manhattan to the relief of residents who had been plunged into darkness for nearly five days by superstorm Sandy.

US stocks fell sharply today, waterlogged from Superstorm Sandy and unmoved by a solid October jobs report.

New Yorkers awoke to the rumble of subway trains for the first time in four days and the death toll continued to rise from the former hurricane Sandy, one of the biggest and most devastating storms ever to hit the US.

New Yorkers are being offered free travel on subways, buses and commuter trains as the city tries to help ease recovery from the chaos caused by superstorm Sandy.

Aer Lingus will operate an additional service between Dublin and New York today in order to help customers who have been affected by cancellations because of Superstorm Sandy.

Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney dive back into campaigning on Thursday after the president put politics aside to spend three days managing the federal response to the superstorm that battered the east coast of the US.

The sun shone again over New York yesterday, as the city and much of the US east coast took the first steps back to normality after being battered by superstorm Sandy.

The death toll in the Caribbean from Hurricane Sandy has risen and estimates of damage and destruction it caused grew larger as more complete assessments emerged from throughout the region.

The battered US East Coast took the first steps back towards daily routine today, even as rescuers combed areas strewn with debris and scarred by floods and fire.

It may appear as if Barack Obama is off the campaign trail, but he is not.

Oil prices rose today after a Superstorm Sandy caused havoc across the north-eastern US and threatened to inflict more damage inland.

Superstorm Sandy has revealed a skeleton which may date back to Colonial times, police in New Haven, Connecticut, said today.

President Barack Obama, locked in a tight re-election bid, is skipping campaign events in battleground states to visit victims of superstorm Sandy in New Jersey, a state he’s confident of winning.

US President Barack Obama will travel to New Jersey later, to assess the damage caused by superstorm Sandy.