Anthony Weiner’s rivals were split last night on whether the ex-lawmaker should drop his bid for mayor of New York after he admitted that he continued to send sexual messages to women he met online even after he was forced out of Congress over the issue.

Cork is hoping to create technology history this St Patrick’s weekend by using advanced video teleconferencing to allow a US mayor lead parades on both sides of the Atlantic.

An Irish American woman has formally announced her bid to become New York's first female and openly-gay mayor.

IT was the passion of the Shannon Gaels man who drove Cork’s Paul Kerrigan and Dublin’s Kevin Nolan out to the northern end of Queens to show him the club’s new home pitch for the next 25 years.

The GAA hope to see their overseas playing membership outnumber the figure within Ireland by 20 years’ time.

President Michael D Higgins adjusted the green, white, and orange ribbons on the wreath and bowed his head.

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has apologised for a comment he made about public drunkenness at an American Irish Historical Society event.

IRELAND’S cultural ambassador, actor Gabriel Byrne, has launched the largest-ever promotion of Irish arts events across the United States.

A section of an abandoned overhead railway line in New York City will open to the public today as a landscaped park, the first of its kind in the United States.

A Stormont minister has briefed New York housing chiefs on the power-sharing executive’s bid to build more than 5,000 new social and affordable homes in three years and tackle segregation.

DESPITE the competing sporting attractions of rugby, GAA and cricket and variable weather conditions, several hundred thousand turned out in Dublin on Saturday to partake in the annual St Patrick’s Day festivities.

NEW YORK’S only openly gay city councillor will march in this year’s Dublin St Patrick’s Day Parade in a deliberate snub to her home city.

New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn plans to march in Dublin’s St Patrick’s Day parade this year, again snubbing the American parade because of its organisers’ refusal to allow gay and lesbian groups to march.

A Kilkenny man who murdered a 36-year-old mother of two at her home lost his appeal against the conviction today.

New York City Council’s first openly gay leader, who is boycotting today’s parade because organisers barred Irish gays and lesbians from joining the festivities for the 16th straight year, blasted its chairman for remarks that compared gay Irish-American activists to neo-Nazis, the Ku Klux Klan and prostitutes.

An 18-year-old Kilkenny youth has been sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of a 36-year-old woman two years ago.

Mr Justice Michael Peart has told the jury in the trial of a teenager charged with murder that it must draw no inference from the fact that the accused has given no evidence. The accused, he said, needs to prove nothing.

The jury in the trial of a teenager charged with murder has been told that if the accused is not guilty, he must be the unluckiest man in Ireland to have all the evidence stacked against him.

The trial of a Kilkenny teenager accused of the murder of a mother-of-two has heard the 18-year-old's DNA was found on a Sony Playstation allegedly belonging to the deceased’s eldest son.

The Central Criminal Court has heard that a Kilkenny teenager told different stories to gardaí and to friends about an injury he sustained around the time of a murder of which he’s accused.

A Kilkenny teenager accused of murder allegedly said: "I didn’t do it, you are not going to make me say I did it" when he was arrested by gardaí in connection with the murder of a 36-year-old mother of three.

The trial of a young Kilkenny man, accused of murdering his friend’s mother, has heard that he used a bloody €50 note to pay for a playstation game on the evening of the killing.

The Central Criminal Court has heard that the Kilkenny house in which a 36-year-old mother-of-two died was "the scene of a sustained and violent assault and two deliberate fires".

A number of gardaí have given evidence today to the Central Criminal Court in the trial of an 18-year-old Kilkenny man, accused of murdering his friend’s mother.

The Central Criminal Court heard today that a Kilkenny mother-of-two was stabbed 35 times by an intruder, who left the blade of a knife in her scalp.

The trial has begun at the Central Criminal Court of an 18-year-old man, who is accused of murdering a 36-year-old mother-of-two in Kilkenny City two years ago.

The ESB is to change its billing system next month.

GARDAÍ were last night trying to establish the final movements of a Tipperary man who was found dead in his home by a relative late on Wednesday night.

GARDAÍ have launched separate investigations after two men were killed in a bloody start to the new year.

Gardai in Kilkenny have arrested a man in connection with the death of a woman in the city earlier this month.

Detectives will continue investigations today at a house in Kilkenny where a 36-year-old mother of two was murdered on Thursday evening.

THE murder of a Kilkenny mother of two has sent shock-waves through the city.

The post mortem is underway on the body of 36-year-old Christine Quinn.

A murder investigation is continuing into the death of a 36-year-old woman who was found in a house in Kilkenny.