It’s the first Sunday of October and you’ve just landed at JFK and, this being midday local time, a hundred county finals back home are into their closing stages. This you know because Pepsi Sister has Sunday Sport on the radio in – she being the successful one of the offspring - her fire-engine red Jeep, writes Enda McEvoy.

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Some footage of Michael Collins has been released online by website www.irelandbirthofanation.com as part of the commemoration of the Easter Rising.

Around 200 pro-life protesters jeered and heckled Taoiseach Enda Kenny as he unveiled a statue in Longford yesterday.