A win for Irish Texan Beto O’Rourke in the US midterm elections could reorder politics in America and precipitate Trump’s downfall.

Born to a drug-addicted mother, a one time gym instructor to the stars told Conor Power how she is bringing her inspiring life story to bear at a groundbreaking new fitness project in Kinsale, Co Cork.

A 21-year-old man whose heavily-intoxicated and cocaine-fuelled dangerous driving caused the death of three young men has been jailed for eight years by Judge Miriam Reynolds at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.