Live at the Marquee is a terrific night out when all the ingredients gel and everything crystallised beautifully for Christy Moore's Saturday night performance under the sloping dome that is by now Cork's favourite summertime venue.

When Jon Stewart quit the Daily Show, the satirical news and comedy show he hosted for 16 years until August 2015, he explained to his replacement, Trevor Noah, that he was tired – and angry at the state of politics and political discourse in the US.

From movies to music, fashion to food, our writers pick the cultural highlights of summer.

Ahead of US President Donald Trump's visit to Ireland this week, we asked a broad range of individuals and organisations to compose open letters explaining why he was or wasn't welcome to this country.

Dermot Shea, who is in Ireland for the International Fraud Prevention conference in Dublin, said that the landscape of law enforcement is changing and it is a challenge to stay ahead of criminals.

Turbans and the hijab will be allowed to be worn by Sikh and Muslim members of the Garda.

From the Eiffel Tower at 130, to 30 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall, Suzanne Harrington rounds up the milestones worth travelling for.

Some 29 people — 26 men and three women — were considered for the Garda Commissioner job.

The statute of limitations having elapsed, it’s time the following tale were told. Derek McGrath may be temporarily chagrined at having it revealed to the nation but he’ll cope. He’s coped with much worse in the past fortnight.

Latest: Harvey Weinstein has been charged with rape, criminal sex act, sex abuse and sexual misconduct for incidents involving two separate women, police in New York have said.

The Kerry-born cop who solved a notorious murder spree in New York is remembered in a TV documentary to be aired this week.

Shane MacGowan’s girlfriend has revealed that ‘Fairytale of New York’ is the soundtrack to their life together.

New York City Police Commissioner James O'Neill said: "We do understand that no city or town in this country is completely immune to such unbridled hatred."

They hope to raise much needed funds for the Charity Aware through fundraising.

Canada’s prime minister has said a shooting at a Quebec City mosque that killed five people was a terrorist act.

The gardaí could fight Dublin’s escalating gangland violence through “precision policing” the head of the NYPD has suggested.

Conor McGregor could hardly have done more to make New York sit up and take notice, writes Brendan O’Brien

The FBI and New York Police Department are assessing the credibility of information received about a possible al Qaida terror attack against the US on the eve of election day.

An Offaly-born off-duty NYPD detective has been released from hospital in New York after being struck in the head by a man with a 28cm cleaver.

ENGLAND: Birmingham has been crowned the funniest city in the UK, according to a study.

USA: A Massachusetts woman can check something off her bucket list: She celebrated her 87th birthday by skydiving.

Two high-ranking New York Police Department officers have been arrested on charges they took over $100,000 (€88,830) worth of flights, prostitutes, lavish meals, and other bribes in exchange for providing a “private police force” for local businessmen.

Some of the stranger stories from around the world

THE king of suspense is back and he’s done it again. 

He spared no thought for his safety during 9/11 and its harrowing aftermath, a recovery effort which cost him his eyesight, but taking part in the Blind US Open Golf Championship was a whole different story for former Irish cop Paul McCormack

Dáithí Ó Sé has found out that life is not just a bunch of Roses after he was arrested by the country’s youngest garda — for not eating his broccoli.

Calls by police groups to boycott Quentin Tarantino’s latest film are putting pressure on one of next month’s most anticipated releases and plunging one of Hollywood’s top directors into a pitched cultural battle.

A former NYPD detective who is close to the family of Aisling Brady McCarthy has said there were numerous “red flags” around her prosecution from the start.

ENGLAND: Memorabilia from the some of the world’s most famous films is going under the hammer at an auction held inside a cinema.

ENGLAND: A millionaire US lawyer embroiled in a High Court cash battle with his fifth wife is fighting to keep his hands on his second Steinway baby grand piano.

A man wanted for illegal gun possession was charged yesterday with the attempted murder of a New York City plainclothes police officer who was shot in the head while pursuing the suspect in his unmarked car, authorities said.

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VENEZUELA: A woman who bashed President Nicolas Maduro on the head with a mango has been promised a new house for her troubles in a surreal tropical tale that has gone viral in Venezuela.

In the ‘30s, up to 40% of the New York Police Department (NYPD) was Irish or of Irish descent. Now that figure has fallen to under 100 Irish immigrants. One of them, Finglas man Luke Waters tells Cormac O’Keeffe what it’s like on one of the toughest beats in the world

Ireland overthrows King James II today - over 300 years after his death; Kenny: ‘Government has nothing to hide’ on sale of Anglo assets; and Tess Holliday is redefining the meaning of fashion. These are some of the latest and most read news on irishexaminer.com this evening.

The parents of an Irish American US Navy Seal who was killed in action in Afghanistan a decade ago, and whose story inspired a Hollywood movie, have expressed delight at an Irish group’s decision to honour his memory.

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Tommy Gilbert Jr has been arrested on suspicion of shooting Tommy Sr, a rich Wall St investor. How did such a gilded life corrode? asks Lynnley Browning

Hundreds of officers outside the church where a funeral was being held for a policeman killed along with his partner in an ambush shooting turned their backs on New York’s mayor as he spoke during the service.

US law enforcement agencies are a long way from being able to effectively track threats of the kind a gunman posted on Instagram before his execution-style murder of two New York City policemen last weekend.