US authorities are to maintain “enhanced security” at transport hubs as the nation struggles to make sense of the bomb attack on the Boston Marathon.

An Irish runner caught up in the Boston marathon attack has vowed to compete in the event next year.

An Irishman who competed in yesterday’s ill-fated Boston marathon was deeply traumatised last night by the explosions that left two dead and dozens injured and from which his wife had a lucky escape.

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.

BUILD it, and they’ll come, organise it and they’ll run — and run it they did, more than 1,400 hardy souls and hardened soles turning up for a trinity of inaugural races, in the fortnight run-up to Christmas.

HURRAY!

A WHOPPING price of €170,000-plus per acre was paid by Clonakilty property developer Bobby Hilliard in a Christmas season auction.

Tommy Barker profiles a niche scheme of eight two-bed homes being aimed at retirees.