LAST time I was in New York a friend told me about a Smorgasburg.

DOGS are proving yet again to be man’s best friend — this time in finding solutions to genetic diseases.

FOR the past few weeks, I’ve been taking regular phone calls from American food writers who are ‘filing copy’ for their St Patrick’s Day columns - from Nebraska to Chicago, New York to Ohio.

AER LINGUS is now offering such tempting deals to New York that growing numbers are whizzing over to the Big Apple just for the weekend.