I was 23 when first nominated for an All-Star, the Sparrow, Ger O’Loughlin, and myself heading to the Burlington together for one of the biggest nights in the GAA calendar.

The man suspected of carrying out the Washington mall shooting that left five people dead was "zombie-like" when he was captured, the police officer who spotted him has said.

A fifth person has died following a shooting at a US shopping mall 60 miles north of Seattle.

The Dalata Hotel Group has emerged as the likely new operator of the former Burlington Hotel in Dublin, four months after baulking at such a move.

The Dalata Hotel Group is to consider paying a maiden dividend to shareholders based on its 2017 earnings, management said yesterday.

I had occasion to rock up to the Irish Book Awards before Christmas, a good evening in what used to be known as the Burlington, even if it ended long before the usual evening finish, or even morning finish, you’d traditionally associate with the old Burlington.

A fleece of us in Clare got nominated for All Stars in 1998 and the county board obligingly decided to fly us up on the Friday and back down on the Saturday.

Wheels within wheels — an appropriate new use has been found for part of the giant, old Cork Ford factory — it’s to host whizzing karts, on a brand new indoors track.

Size: Sq m 184 (2,000 sq ft)

Game of Thrones and Champions League soccer are the big tickets in town this week.

Shortly after the closure of The Sunday Tribune, I was asked to contribute a couple of articles to a book celebrating the best of writing from the staff that were there to the end.

Investigations are underway into the cause of a fire at the Burlington Hotel in Dublin.

Gloves, a knife and other items from the Lincoln film blockbuster are to be auctioned at the European premiere in Dublin.

Gloves, a knife and other items from the Lincoln film blockbuster are to be auctioned at the European premiere in Dublin next week.

He was apprehensive, he says now.

Ownership of the historic Parknasilla Hotel on the Ring of Kerry was due to change this week, with the overseas buyer behind the €10m-plus purchase, represented in Kenmare by DreamIreland businessman Tony Daly.

The Irish golf industry is not just focused on its overseas clientele and Fáilte Ireland will next Tuesday turn its attentions to homegrown golfers when it hosts a free Golf Promotion Night in Dublin’s Burlington Hotel, between 6pm and 10pm.

Normally, the distance from the Burlington Hotel to Glenswilly is 260 kilometres or so — but this was no normal week in Donegal.

AS developer Bernard McNamara’s misguided Burlington hotel purchase is put back for sale at a quarter the price he paid for it only five years ago, one of his other hotels is close to a sale via a receiver.

Sinn Féin has called for a “junket crackdown” after new figures showed a cash-strapped local authority spent almost €300,000 on visits, trips, conferences, and seminars in two years.

Astronomy tour to China

IT WAS supposed to be a night of celebration for Fine Gael, and Enda Kenny insisted that was exactly what it would be.

Dozens of people have been arrested during Occupy demonstrations at the University of California's Berkeley campus as authorities twice clashed with protesters trying to set up encampments.

The Occupy Wall Street movement faced down city chiefs to hang on to its makeshift headquarters, showed its muscle with a big Times Square demonstration and found legions of activists demonstrating in solidarity across the world.

FOR a while yesterday, I felt like I must be the lucky one.

A YOUNG Clare man who turned a €10 bet on the Grand National into a €650,000 win in one of Ireland’s top poker competitions still thinks he might be back at work next week.

SHORTLY after dawn last Saturday, the fate of fistfuls of flutters and fancies dangled as if the gates were just snapping open at the Curragh.

ENDA Kenny swept into the Burlington Hotel’s glittering ballroom as Taoiseach-in-waiting — and no one had ever been waiting for such validation for so long.

All-Ireland finals are different. Winning is a wedding, losing is a wake. Former Cork player Conor McCarthy paints a vivid picture of the difference between the two

IT was 3am on Monday when Brendan Cummins’ last reserves of adrenalin finally reached empty and he surrendered to sleep.

THE scene: the Burlington Hotel, Dublin, last Saturday night.

THANK you students, please sit down. It’s an honour to address the class of 2010. I know you guys are busy cramming ahead of the Leaving Cert’s commencement in a few short days.

AS the stars gathered for the seventh annual Irish Film and Television (IFTA) awards, one of the most charming and amiable turned out to be the surprisingly charismatic Jon Voight, father of Angelina Jolie, and acclaimed actor in his own right.

IRELAND’S golden girl Saoirse Ronan failed to win the BAFTA for Best Actress in London last night, but was perhaps consoled with the IFTA she took home just 24 hours earlier in her home town.

THE tough times have started to hit the Irish glitterati with stars being forced to recycle dresses and shop at TK Maxx, and failing to get flowers from their boyfriend on St Valentine’s Day.

MORE than 38,000 residents in 26 Iowa communities were evacuated from their homes yesterday.

A string of towns along America’s Mississippi River prepared for new problems today only hours after flood fears eased elsewhere.

National Guard troops worked with residents to stem the damage from the widespread flooding in Iowa that killed at least three people, forced tens of thousands to evacuate and severely damaged the state's corn crop.

HIGH noon came yesterday when Dublin’s landmark Burlington Hotel closed its doors.

One of Dublin’s best known landmarks, the Burlington Hotel, will today close its doors for the last time.