It didn’t take the hurlers of Dublin, Tipperary, Clare and Galway long to discover Boston’s list of priorities last Friday when they landed for the Fenway Classic Super 11s.

Mitt Romney is poised to clinch the Republican presidential nomination after today’s Texas primary, a largely uncontested election which will formalise the former Massachusetts governor’s status as President Barack Obama’s general election challenger.

Mitt Romney’s foreign policy vacillation typifies how the Republican Party has struggled to keep up with developments, says Leslie H Gelb

LAST night some of you may have caught ‘Red Riding’ on Channel 4, a new drama based on the novels of David Peace.

THIRTY-THREE years ago, Donald Rumsfeld, then a domestic policy official in the Nixon administration, became involved in foreign policy by volunteering to run the post Vietnam War reconstruction effort.