The promoters of a film festival which celebrates Richard Harris in his native Limerick, has accused the city’s cultural establishment of snubbing the event after the city council gave it just €200.

There will be no change to Ireland’s 12.5% corporate tax rate, the Taoiseach told US business leaders in Ireland yesterday.

Tánaiste Frances Fitzgerald and Garda Commissioner Noirín O’Sullivan will be joined by one-time US presidential hopeful Martin O’Malley and Bernie Sanders strategist Tadd Devine on a heavy-hitting schedule for this year’s Kennedy Summer School.

Justice Minister Francis Fitzgerald has warned that we must we must never forget the “hidden body count” of gangland crime.

US Vice President Joe Biden said he was emotional and moved by his visit to Aras an Uachtarain this morning, writes Jack Power of the Irish Examiner.

An international Islamic scholar has told the Government it was not immune to Islamic extremism and urged it to act now rather than “when it is too late”.

A high-level delegation from Cork Chamber, the Irish Aviation Authority and officials from Dublin and Cork airports met the US ambassador to Ireland yesterday as part of intense efforts to secure the first transatlantic flights from Cork.

The Government is launching a ‘Home to Work’ campaign in the run up to Christmas to try to encourage emigrants to return.

Here’s a briefing on some of the stories and issues highlighted on irishexaminer.com today.

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US Ambassador to Ireland Kevin O’Malley had to give up his Irish passport to take up the role of a diplomat. But, as he recounts to Dan Buckley, that doesn’t make him feel any less Irish.

The 800-acre site for the three-day national ploughing championships, which begin at Ratheniska, Co Laois, tomorrow is ready to host Europe’s largest outdoor agricultural event.

“We all grieve together. We all grieve in our own way, at our own speed. We all have our good days and our bad days, but we have them together.”

Images of rotting wood left exposed by the deadly collapse of a balcony in Berkeley are “incredibly similar” to pictures used in a multi-million dollar lawsuit against the construction company that built the complex where six students died, it was claimed last night.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny led Dáil tributes to the six students who died in the Berkeley tragedy.

A series of events will take place this week to mark the centenary of the sinking of RMS Lusitania off the coast of Cork.

The parents of an Irish American US Navy Seal who was killed in action in Afghanistan a decade ago, and whose story inspired a Hollywood movie, have expressed delight at an Irish group’s decision to honour his memory.

A president, three ambassadors and around 5,300 cruise line passengers will come to Cobh on May 7 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Lusitania.

Disgraced former Anglo Irish Bank chief executive David Drumm should be hauled before the banking inquiry after his failed US-protected bankruptcy application.

Near gridlock in the US Congress has delayed the appointment of the country’s ambassador to Ireland, certainly for weeks, potentially for months.

Kevin O’Malley has been named as the new Ambassador to Ireland from the United States.

One of the country’s largest trade unions is today expected to back calls for pay restoration across the public and private sectors, and reject employer calls for tax cuts as an alternative to wage increases.

A major trade union says it is a “national embarrassment” that shortcomings in the collective bargaining rights afforded to Irish workers were criticised by the United Nations Human Rights Council.

The Vita Cortex workers have vowed to continue their sit-in despite threats of legal action.

A south Armagh man who killed two people in a road crash over five years ago has succeeded in having part of his seven-year sentence suspended on appeal.

I REFER to the editorial (Irish Examiner, July 20) regarding the striking out of cases at the District Court in Tralee on Monday July 18 due to the non-appearance in the court of the Irish Medicines Board (IMB).

THREE men died in two separate car crashes at the weekend, bringing to 39 the number of lives lost on the roads so far this year.