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Meet the Irish man who invented basketball’s jump shot

The man who changed the way basketball was played died on January 30, aged 95.

Fri, 04 Mar, 2016

Writer scoops Cork award

A BRITISH writer Simon Van Booy has won the Frank O’Connor Short Story Award for his collection, Love Begins in Winter. The €35,000 prize is the richest in the world for a short story collection.

Mon, 21 Sep, 2009

Students mocked hostage-taking with rubber duck

A MOCK hostage-taking video showing five US college students in ski masks, speaking in crude Middle Eastern accents and threatening a rubber duck has drawn complaints from local Muslim leaders.

Fri, 09 Feb, 2007