SMALL things are easily overlooked.

I MUST have been the only Courtmacsherry resident not to have seen the flock of 16 glossy ibises that made the bay shore their home from October 4 to October 15.

Ricky Barnes took a one-shot lead into the final round of the US Open but it could have been so much better for the American at Bethpage Black.

Ricky Barnes further staked his claim to a US Open victory as the third round finally resumed today with the major heading for a first Monday finish since 1983.

The 109th US Open was heading for a first Monday finish since 1983 after more heavy rain fell on the Bethpage Black course overnight.

TROUBLED times for Pádraig Harrington.

THERE’S an old adage which says if you have six Derby horses then the reality is that you actually have none!

A helicopter belonging to Ukraine's state gas company crashed today as it tried to land on a Black Sea drilling platform, killing 20 people, officials said.

With over a dozen people already dead and rivers still rising in parts of the US, there are fears many communities could flood again.

A leading Russian environmentalist today disputed claims that more than 30,000 birds have died in an oil spill.

Russian searchers have recovered the cockpit voice recorder from an Armenian passenger jet that crashed in the Black Sea nearly three weeks ago, killing 113 passengers and crew.

One of those films that should have been much, much better, given the promise of a confused woman (Moore) who reports a car hijack, a misswing son and, perhaps, more than she's prepared to reveal; a cop (Eldard) who goes OTT and closes down a Black neighbourhood in an attempt to trap the kidnapper, causing mounting racial tension; a good cop (Jackson) caught in the middle.

Greek investigators hit more dead ends today in the hunt for the Irish owners of ship that was seized with 680 tons of explosives on board.

A former member of the defence forces who worked as a security guard with John Crerar on the night Kildare woman Phyllis Murphy disappeared has told a jury he lied to gardai when he provided an alibi for Mr Crerar back in 1980.

The Ukrainian Navy has been ordered to start searching the Black Sea for remains of missiles thought to have hit a Russian airliner.

A garda investigation is underway into a racist web site, which declares "Say No To Black Ireland".

Four people were shot, a man was injured with a machete and a gun fight took place between two gangs at a carnival.