A machete-wielding attacker who died hours after being shot by a sheriff’s deputy who stopped his rampage at New Orleans’ international airport had a bag loaded with Molotov cocktails, authorities say.

Even though the catalogue is still in the course of preparation, the Irish Examiner can today offer a sneak preview of treasures from Bantry House to be sold by Edinburgh-based auctioneers Lyon & Turnbull on October 21.

INTERNATIONAL interest in the October auction of contents from Bantry House will centre on tapestries, icons and furniture.

A bleak and dreary landscape is all that is left of the once renowned Waterford Crystal plant outside the city that gave it its name.

A 65-year-old van driver was seriously injured when a young motorist failed to stop at a junction and crashed his car sidelong into the van in a midnight incident in the Cobh area.

This definitely wasn’t your typical removal job.

A treatise on masculinity masquerading as a fairytale love story, The Lucky One (12A) stars Zac Efron as Logan, who finds a picture of a beautiful blonde woman while serving as a Marine in Iraq.

More than 20 years after ‘Beauty And The Beast’ became the first animated feature to contest the Oscar for Best Picture, Disney’s “tale as old as time” returns to multiplexes in a glorious new 3D print.

THE rustic poet Patrick Kavanagh put it lyrically when he wrote that “ordinary things wear lovely wings”.

JUST when it appeared yesterday’s Kerry senior football decider in Fitzgerald Stadium was heading for a replay, county star Declan O’Sullivan fisted over the winning point to leave South Kerry champions for the ninth time.

Hurricane Isabel is closing in on the North Carolina coast with 105 mph winds and the potential for up to a foot of rain, threatening to cause ruinous flooding across the region.

The Leinster Under-21 team to face Ulster at Ravenhill (KO: 6:30pm) on Friday has been named.

Leinster have named their squad for Friday night’s under-21 Interprovincial clash with Munster at Donnybrook (KO: 6:30pm).

The Leinster Under-21 squad for the upcoming season has been announced today.

A woman who set off a frantic and fruitless search for survivors when she said her husband had called her from under the destroyed World Trade Centre has been jailed for three years.