A lavish fund-raising effort from Kerry GAA chiefs in New York, Chicago and Boston has helped put a €1 million dent in the cost of the Kingdom’s proposed Centre of Excellence at Currans, near Farranfore.

The 19-year-old daughter of a Chilean diplomat in Venezuela has been killed by police at a road checkpoint.

Taoiseach Brian Cowen will today ring the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange in the second leg of his trip to the United States.

MUNSTER RUGBY may not have been born in the USA, but the official final run–in to their new season began in Chicago yesterday.