It’s not often a child can boast they made a significant historical find on a school tour, but that’s exactly what Eillie Mai Ryan-Earley did on a recent visit to Carrowkeel Caves in Co Sligo.

Massive crowds of supporters and opponents of Donald Trump are gathering in Washington as the world prepares for an extraordinary inauguration ceremony.

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Jackson Browne, Alice Cooper, David Crosby and Graham Nash are to perform in a concert in Tucson, Arizona, to raise funds for a charitable fund established after the shooting there which killed six people and wounded 13 others.

Another band has complained about John McCain’s unauthorised use of their song to promote his campaign.