An extract from Jim Hayes’s biography, The Road From Harbour Hill: A Journey Of Dreams, published by iUniverse LLC Bloomington. 

New York police said today they have rounded up more than 40 people in New York and Florida, including one of the founders of the Roc-A-Fella record label, during a swoop on a wholesale marijuana ring.

WINTER feeding without hay or silage is the unusual feature on the cattle farm of Pat McInerney in Manus, Clarecastle, Co Clare.

The daughter of Britt Ekland and the late actor Peter Sellers faces being deported back to Britain after she was arrested in Hollywood for immigration offences, US authorities said.