As your American-based golf correspondent, I’ve got a confession to make. I didn’t fancy my first pints of Guinness. In fact, I didn’t acquire a taste for it until my first trip to Ireland a little more than a decade ago and a visit to Temple Bar’s cobbled streets between the River Liffey and Dame Street in Dublin.

When Guinness heir Garech de Brún died over a year ago, his final will and testament included a “bow gate” bequeathed to the city of Galway.

Jackman invited the Irish dad up on stage after admiring his dance moves in the audience.

Hugh Jackman is happy to be in Ireland judging from his posts on social media.

Outspoken Independents, a celebrity candidate, and a risk that the result could cause a snap general election mean the sprawling Midlands-North West is set for high drama, writes Political Correspondent Fiachra Ó Cionnaith.

The Mansion House in Dublin will be getting almost 3,000 more free pints from Diageo next year.

Controversial, we know.

The head of jazz at the CIT Cork School of Music has expressed fears for the future direction of the city’s jazz festival following the sudden departure of its director.

€2,187,500 worth of parking tickets.

Des O’Driscoll looks back on the strange set of circumstances that led to the founding of the festival in 1978.

I got a call from my old buddy, Niall Gilligan, on Tuesday morning. We were chatting about meeting Fr Harry Bohan for a quiet drink at some stage. 

It would have been very easy for Schalk Burger to call it a day in 2016.

Actor Jason Momoa is almost as well known for his love of Guinness as he is for his iconic roles as Khal Drogo in Game of Thones and as Aquaman in Justice League.

I wish to demur from what is supposed to be grave national insult and disappointment that Ireland was not awarded the 2023 Rugby World Cup. 

A strange set of circumstances led Jim Mountjoy to suggest a jazz festival for Cork in 1978. Little did he know how his idea would snowball, writes Des O’Driscoll

The feelgood factor around Denmark’s recent footballing renaissance has cranked up a notch following their World Cup play-off pairing with the Republic of Ireland, admits Danish Eurosport commentator Peter Piil.

Hugh Hefner drew the ire of Christian conservatives and radical feminists alike, but many women have also said positive things about the late Playboy publisher, writes TP O’Mahony.

WHY, OH why did The Guardian have to do it? Why did it have to resort to the type of clichéd hatchet-job it would shake its head at in a less lofty publication?

Classic paintings by Guardi and Turner sold for huge money in London, writes Des O’Sullivan

A Connemara bar on an Easter Sunday afternoon — pints and fish-and- chips and plenty of fun. There are locals and blow-ins, tourists, day-trippers and weekenders. By 5pm, the place is full. 

Alan Bennett’s tweet summed it up, didn’t it?

The brew’s branding is even designed with some of his tattoo’s and his signature.

Finbarr Flood, former chair of the Labour Court, has died aged 77.

Having experience as a high-level adviser to foreign diplomats, I understand the role an ambassador plays in representing a country.

USA: A Siamese cat has been named by Guinness World Records as the world’s oldest living cat.

There is now an official Guinness World Record for the most time spent in virtual reality while playing a game. Filmmaker Derek Westerman now holds the record, having spent 25 hours in VR.

FACEBOOK boss, Mark Zuckerberg seems to have gone bonkers and given away all his wealth — $45bn (€41.37bn) on paper — to a foundation he has set up along with his wife, Priscilla Chan.

After 256 years, the brewers behind the famous pint of the black stuff are shaking up its original recipe.

RTÉ has removed from its website what it describes as “offensive” comments made by the brewing dynasty heir Patrick Guinness about Syrian refugees.

Fine Irish furniture, an antique pierced steel helmet reputedly owned by Sir Thomas Wentworth, the harp owned by Derek Bell of The Chieftains, and a set of bagpipes used at Fenian gatherings in West Cork gives some idea of the range and breadth of the Guinness family collections to be sold in Naas today.

Des O’Sullivan finds Ireland represented as a female figure in The Spirit of Justice under the hammer in Co Kildare.

Hurling needs to be marketed more specifically with “stand-alone promotion”, says marketing expert Mick O’Keeffe of PSG Communications, who advocates squad numbers and names on the jersey to help identify players obscured by hurling helmets.

Guinness has been credited with some of the world’s most iconic advertising and, says Ed Power, its quality hasn’t faltered since it launched its first advertisement, to the chagrin of its owner, in 1929

I saw two options, eurozone compromise or Greece would exit the euro. That Greece would capitulate as it has was never considered, says Megan McArdle            

We guess if you’ve never seen one of these yokes before you might be a bit bemused.