I am very familiar with Charlottesville having lived there for almost a year in the early 1980s. 

Donald Trump has lashed out at members of his own party as his controversial response to white supremacist violence threatens to engulf his presidency.

In President Donald Trump, they have a surrogate. It is unclear how far they may go, writes Gerard Howlin

The separation of Church and State is easier to advocate than practise, as the National Maternity Hospital controversy shows, says TP O’Mahony

Should the final say on what the Constitution does or does not mean rest exclusively with seven unelected people? TP O’Mahony weighs up the evidence and looks at the judicial activism of the Irish Supreme Court.

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

After ‘His & Hers’ won him acclaim, Ken Wardrop took to the manliest state in the US to document the relationships between mother and son, writes Esther McCarthy

Britain: When a cheating spouse upsets the sparrow love nest, it is the children who suffer, scientists have discovered.

SPAIN: A priest says he has given up hope that local authorities in his parish of Xestoso in the northwest of the country will fix the potholes in the roads so he has asked for divine intervention.

ENGLAND: A seaside resort has axed a Punch and Judy show over fears it trivialises domestic violence.

The so-called terrible beauty that WB Yeats said was born in 1916 was nothing of the sort. What materialised, in the aftermath of the 1916 Rising, was a Catholic state and the transfer of dominion from an imperial power to an ecclesiastical one, an outcome that Wolfe Tone and the United Irishmen of 1798 would have abhorred.

Maybe there is a game more romanticised, more mythologised than rugby.

Brazil came from behind to open their Copa America campaign with a win, courtesy of a last-gasp strike from Douglas Costa.

Irish trainer Paul Stafford kept up his fine run of form at Hexham as Better B Quick rewarded favourite-backers in the SIS Handicap Chase.

Lionel Messi equalled Raul’s record of 71 Champions League goals with a brace to earn Barcelona a 2-0 win over Ajax in Group F last night.

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.

Oh and one man named Nacho. This story has it ALL.

AC Milan playmaker Kaka and Atletico Mineiro forward Ronaldinho were among the big names to miss out as Brazil coach Luiz Felipe Scolari unveiled his 23-man World Cup squad today.

Present View survived a lengthy stewards’ inquiry to give trainer Jamie Snowden a first Festival winner as he held Attaglance in a dramatic finish to the Rewards4Racing Novices’ Handicap Chase, the final race on day one of the Cheltenham Festival.

Richard Johnson has been booked by the Grand National-winning team of Sue and Harvey Smith for Hennessy Gold Cup contender Cloudy Too.

Cape Tribulation is a likely runner in Saturday’s Hennessy Gold Cup at Newbury, which means the weights will not rise any further.

Malcolm Jefferson is hoping for a bit more rain ahead of Oscar Rock’s eagerly-awaited jumps debut at Wetherby on Friday.

Attaglance is being aimed at the Paddy Power Gold Cup at Cheltenham on November 16.

Sitting in Paris as the US’s first ambassador to France, Thomas Jefferson reflected on how the new US government could avoid the errors of European “despots” who kept their people subjugated through war and debt.

1. The Peak of Chic

Sir Des Champs will line up in the Betfred Cheltenham Gold Cup with a new jockey after Davy Russell was ruled out with a punctured lung.

A record crowd of 18,208 turned up for Trials Day at Cheltenham on Saturday and were treated to a spectacular afternoon’s action, led by Sprinter Sacre in the Victor Chandler Chase.

Cape Tribulation put himself in the Gold Cup picture with a last-gasp success in the Argento Chase at Cheltenham.

A British charity has suspended plans to deliver aid to Syria because of the worsening violence in Lebanon.

Schalke have confirmed Jefferson Farfan has signed a contract extension until 2016, ending months of speculation about the Peruvian’s future.

Ruby Walsh, twice a winner of the Grand National but forced to miss last Saturday’s race for the second time in three years following a fall from Zarkandar in the Aintree Hurdle earlier on the card, feels the changes to the great race have gone far enough already.

Malcolm Jefferson has spoken in defence of the John Smith’s Grand National after paying tribute to According To Pete, who lost his life at Aintree on Saturday.

The explanation for a shooting rampage that terrorised a black neighbourhood in the US state of Oklahoma and left three people dead may lie in a killing that took place more than two years ago, it has been revealed.

Malcolm Jefferson secured a second Cheltenham Festival victory of the week when Attaglance landed the Martin Pipe Conditional Jockeys’ Handicap Hurdle

UL EAGLES will be bidding to extend their winning run when they face DCU Saints at the UL Arena tomorrow night and then head to Galway on Sunday to play Moycullen.

OUR central banks are all privately owned. We need to really wake up to this farce.

Sanctuaire showed he had become the latest member of the Paul Nicholls team to have benefited from a breathing operation when bouncing back to his best in the Isle of Skye Blended Whisky Scottish Champion Hurdle at Ayr today.

Donald McCain had “no complaints” after ante-post favourite Ballabriggs was allotted a weight of 11st in the 2011 John Smith’s Grand National.

Washington: A Life

Malcolm Jefferson's Gilbarry made the perfect start to his career over fences with an impressive performance in the bet365.com Novices' Chase at Wetherby today.

Grand National winner Mon Mome heads a final field of 12 runners for the Peter Marsh Chase at Haydock on Saturday.

Ireland is about to witness a US-style degeneration of half- built housing schemes into ghost estates, says Juno McEnroe.