Suzanne Harrington takes an imaginary look inside the White House. 

This book is an account of five men who served as page boys, lamp boys, boot boys, and even an ‘odd boy’ — a kind of multifunctional servant — to the gentlemen of the house.

Free speech is upheld, but political caprice is unrestrained, in an Oireachtas where voluntary restraint is in short supply, writes Gerard Howlin.

Legend has it that the English ballad ‘The World Turned Upside Down’ was the tune played by the British military band when Lord Cornwallis surrendered to George Washington at the Siege of Yorktown in 1781 during the American War of Independence.

Sexual allegations are not new in US presidential politics, but Ryle Dwyer notes that Donald Trump has plumbed a new low.

Your letters, your views...

US presidents vary between authoritarian figures and nappy changers, writes Olivia Kelleher

Caravaggio bids to become the latest in a long line of Ballydoyle superstars to have landed the Keeneland Phoenix Stakes when he puts his huge reputation on the line at the Curragh tomorrow.

The remains of one of Ireland’s finest Georgian villas could face demolition after it was gutted in a suspected arson attack.

Some of the stranger stories from around the world

A quick sweep of the archives would show it is perhaps not the greatest surprise that Kieren Fallon has called time on his career in the saddle.

Donald Trump isn’t the first wealthy person to run for the Oval Office. But, if elected, unique conflicts of interest could arise due to his way of doing business, writes Timothy L O’Brien

What do you do when your religious beliefs conflict with your chosen sport? And how does this play out when your chosen sport is also your job?

The world’s most expensive coin — the first dollar ever minted in the US — is to go on public display in Dublin next week.

Buratino is set to take on the might of Ballydoyle after being confirmed for the Keeneland Phoenix Stakes at the Curragh on Sunday.

The US Department of the Treasury has confirmed that the process to feature a woman’s face on paper currency will commence.

 

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Early residents of Boston valued a robust press as much as their history and currency if the contents of a time capsule dating back to the years just after the Revolutionary War are any guide.

Any horse called John F Kennedy, trained by Aidan O’Brien, was always destined to attract more than normal attention.

In the opinion section on your paper on August 8, Gerard Howlin writes about Pat Rabbitte’s difficulty coping with being dropped from government. Paudy McMahon wrote a letter rebuffing Gay Byrne who expressed fears about the role of the EU in our lives and Tom Duffy stressed how our government is ramming through its wind energy programme with no regard to the health impact on residents.

Aidan O’Brien’s domination of the Keeneland Phoenix Stakes continued as Dick Whittington caused a minor upset in the Curragh feature.

Eddie Lynam has warned Anthem Alexander could bypass tomorrow’s Keeneland Phoenix Stakes should the ground be too soft.

From Dracula to Fr Ted and Boyzone, we have devised some of the most brilliant, but often annoying, things on the planet, says John Daly.

A two-volume edition of Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf, personally signed by Hitler, is set to be auctioned online on Thursday.

Soldiers are distributing rice and water in the typhoon-devastated Philippines and chainsaw-wielding teams are cutting debris from blocked roads as the aid effort picks up pace.

The mystery buyer of Charles Haughey’s mansion wants to restore the 18th-century palatial spread to its former glory.

AMERICAN politicians regularly — and often hilariously — describe their country as the “greatest democracy in the world”, despite the fact a president can just squeak election in terms of real votes but win a landslide in the electoral college; despite the fact the balance of powers between Congress and the president are such that the system often seizes up; and despite the fact that new laws are sometimes not made by the legislature but by the US Supreme Court.

The misery inflicted by Superstorm Sandy intensified yesterday as millions along the US East Coast faced life without power or transport for days to come.

The Art of Perception, Memoirs of a Life in PR

Politicians united by their respect for Burma democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi presented her with Congress' highest civilian honour in a ceremony in the Capitol Rotunda, ahead of a meeting with President Barack Obama.

Kentucky-based animal health and nutrition group Alltech is moving part of its whiskey business to Ireland, birthplace of the company’s president and founder, Dr Pearse Lyons.

TO paraphrase Gandhi: First they ignore you.

Agriculture Minister Simon Coveney (and his daughter Beth) were on hand to congratulate Pat and Derek Frawley, from Croagh, Rathkeale, Co Limerick, and their cow handler Stephen McLoughlin, when they won the prestigious Maverick Golden Vale Cup, presented by Kerry Agri Business at Charleville Agricultural Show last weekend.

Michael Collins has been named as Britain’s second greatest enemy commander, outmanoeuvred only by George Washington, in a poll conducted by London’s National Army Museum.

Hopes that Michael Collins will be named Britain’s greatest foe rest on the shoulders of an English-born history lecturer.

Michael Collins has been voted one of Britain’s five greatest foes, after results of an online poll by the National Army Museum in London placed him ahead of celebrated adversaries like Napoleon, Erwin Rommel and George Washington.

Protesters chanted and cheered as they marched down Wall Street to mark six months since the birth of the Occupy movement.

An eBay bidder who won a £5,000 (€6,000) chicken nugget resembling George Washington has chickened out of the deal.