As your American-based golf correspondent, I’ve got a confession to make. I didn’t fancy my first pints of Guinness. In fact, I didn’t acquire a taste for it until my first trip to Ireland a little more than a decade ago and a visit to Temple Bar’s cobbled streets between the River Liffey and Dame Street in Dublin.

Celtic manager Neil Lennon was attacked at Tynecastle during the Clydesdale Bank Premier League game against Hearts after Gary Hooper had put the visitors two goals ahead.

Northern Ireland pair Jeff Whitley and Philip Mulryne have been sent home from the squad’s training camp for a breach of discipline, it is understood.

A man was arrested in Northern Ireland today as part of an investigation into organised crime money-laundering.