TWO years ago Maureen O’Hara checked into the Ashford Castle hotel to stay in the room she called home during the filming of The Quiet Man.

A United Airlines captain suffered an apparent heart attack while piloting a plane from Houston to Seattle and passengers stepped in to help with a doctor performing CPR and an off-duty pilot assisting in the emergency landing in Idaho.

As Maureen O’Hara settles in the US, the High Court will hear of a bitter battle centred on her care, writes investigative correspondent Conor Ryan

A Haitian judge said today some of the 10 US missionaries arrested on charges of child kidnapping would be released, nearly three weeks after they were caught trying to take a group of children out of the quake-stricken country.

Ireland has today won nine medals in the Alpine Skiing category at the 2009 Special Olympics World Winter Games in Boise, Idaho, US.

SHE has been named Beauty, though this eagle is anything but. Part of Beauty’s beak was shot off several years ago, leaving her with a stump that is useless for hunting food.

A US man pleaded with police officers to kill him after his wife’s severed head was tossed from his pick-up truck as he drove into an oncoming car, killing two people, prosecutors said.

A man transporting his wife’s severed head in a pickup truck crashed into an oncoming car, killing a woman and her 4-year-old daughter, police in the United States said tonight.

US President George Bush suggested today that anti-war protesters such as Cindy Sheehan, who want the troops brought home immediately, do not represent the views of most US military families and are “advocating a policy that would weaken the United States".

A US judge has overturned a law banning strippers doing the "full monty" because it infringes their freedom of expression.