Diana Ross will be 76 by the time she crosses the Atlantic for pre-Glastonbury gigs at the Marquee in Cork

A Cork-made documentary recalls Éamon de Valera’s eventful trip to the US to drum up support for Irish independence, writes Richard Fitzpatrick.

Given he has still yet to don the green jacket that seemed as tailor-made for him as the Augusta course itself, the eve of another US Masters invariably prompts the memory of Rory McIlroy’s implosion there eight years ago.

A win for Irish Texan Beto O’Rourke in the US midterm elections could reorder politics in America and precipitate Trump’s downfall.

One of Cork’s best-known jewellers, who was found critically injured on a street after a Christmas party, died from head injuries consistent with a fall, an inquest has established.

I like a good barometer. No, not the scientific instrument used in meteorology to measure atmospheric pressure. More the ones that allude to ‘What’s hot’ and ‘What’s not’. Or, ‘Heating Up’ and ‘Cooling down’, writes Lindsay Woods.

Everybody accepts that the accused, and even the convicted, have the right to legal support, writes Terry Prone.

A trip to the Deep South got the intricate machinations of the mind of Pat McNamee working overtime in the early 1990s — today the Cork native is a man whose ingenious clothes washing invention is sold in millions of supermarkets throughout 60 countries.

Put the first and second fingers of your right hand together. Firmly together. As if they’re stuck together. See that? That’s how me and Joe Arpaio used to be: Closerthanthis, as they say in the best supermarket tabloid magazines.

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Baz Ashmawy’s Emmy-award winning show, 50 Ways To Kill Your Mammy, had to be renamed for the American series of the hit programme.

A superb amphitheatre, a terrific buzz and plenty of football action — no, not the Stade de France, The Courtyard off Sober Lane where hundreds gathered for a night of “oohs” and “aahs” and a result any of us would have taken yesterday morning.

We had a few days off last week and were inclined to take a break in the Deep South. 

Rivals candidates vow to fight on despite Super Tuesday setbacks

Donald Trump keeps insisting he is a winner, and so are those who support him, he loves to remind voters how rich he is, and the message is striking a chord, says Arie W Kruglanski

Audrey has been sorting out Cork people for years...

Grey skies didn’t dull the rainbow colours at Cork’s 10th annual Pride parade yesterday afternoon.

IT was 1980s TV star, Bosco, who first said it.

Next week, Harper Lee will break a 55-year silence when she publishes her second ever book. Marjorie Brennan still finds inspiration in ‘To Kill a Mocking Bird’ and Harper Lee herself after all these years

Harper Lee’s publishers have offered readers a glimpse of her new novel as they unveiled the cover for the long-awaited follow-up to the bestselling To Kill A Mockingbird.

Robin Wright and Kevin Spacey return for a third season of House of Cards on Netflix from Friday.

Gay and lesbian couples are getting legally married in the south-east of the US for the first time, with the practice crossing into a conservative region that has long stood against same-sex marriage.

Ahead of Cork Fashion Week, five of the city’s movers and shakers tell Claire O’Sullivan what gives the city its edge

And for the entertainment round — the quiz master himself will do the honours.

While The Menu’s Teddy Bear still occasionally sends a card on the odd Christmas, it is many a long year since they have enjoyed a jorum let alone a cuddle.

Bord Bia has announced the organisation’s latest round of recruitment to select 20 graduates for the Bord Bia Marketing Fellowship.

The Menu has enjoyed wonderfully uplifting repasts in The Stuffed Olive Café, in Bantry, so was saddened when it closed last year.

12 Years a Slave *****

Manchester, so much to answer for.

ANOTHER summer gone by without me swimming with dolphins. All I can ever boast is swimming with jellyfish.

In the US, a powerful winter storm which caused tornadoes in the Deep South and crippling blizzards in the Midwest is making its way through New York City today.

Steve Jobs was always going to be a hard act to follow. His successor, Tim Cook, has won over staff and investors after just six months in the plum post, but can he maintain the pace and keep Apple fans on board, asks Kyran Fitzgerald

SCENES from anther world. Mississippi 1963.

Rick Santorum won crucial primaries in Alabama and Mississippi in the race for the Republican presidential nomination, dealing a devastating blow to Newt Gingrich and securing his position as the chief conservative alternative to front-runner Mitt Romney.

The leading Republican presidential hopefuls focused their campaigns on the Deep South, with polls showing a tight three-way contest in tomorrow’s pivotal primaries in Alabama and Mississippi.

Why on earth would anyone want to remake 'Straw Dogs'?

DIRTY tricks and skulduggery at the heart of an election campaign?

DARREN CLARKE flew out of Atlanta last night as delighted to be heading for a well-earned break as he was disappointed with the form that prompted his missed cut at the PGA Championship.

A tornado-spewing storm system that killed at least 45 people across half the US unleashed its worst fury on North Carolina, where residents mourned the dead, marvelled at their survival and began to clean up devastated neighbourhoods.

A FACEBOOK friend messaged last week to ask: “Have you not read The Spirit Level?” Did he mean Seamus Heaney’s poetry collection or the acclaimed book published last year arguing that income inequality is the cause of most social problems?

If Cyrus could act this film might have limped across the finishing line, but she can’t and it didn’t.

Claims that Barack Obama would not be doing so well in the US presidential race if he was not black are the “kind of slice and dice politics that Americans are tired of”, the Democratic front-runner said today.