Shane Lowry today carried home hopes into the third round of the Irish Open after Ireland’s four major champions all missed the halfway cut at Carton House.

Shane Lowry cast himself in the role of Irish Open messiah once more when he finished with a roof-raising brace of birdies to ease the pain of a major exodus by Rory McIlroy and the rest of Ireland’s Big Five at a wind-blown Carton House.

US authorities said a 55-year-old man went into cardiac arrest and died after being stung more than 500 times by bees as he cleared brush from a property in Southern California.

Rory McIlroy's indifferent run of form continued in the St Andrews Links Trophy at the Home of Golf.

The Irish Youths team beat Scotland in the Youth International at Portumna Golf Club in Co Galway today.

THE death of actor- turned-president Ronald Reagan has offered distraction to a country exhausted by months of grim news from Iraq and ripe for an outpouring of nostalgia, experts said yesterday.