The history of these islands and their peoples can be read through their castles, ruined or restored, finds Mary Leland

This week’s return of the Irish Open to Royal Portrush could spark a rekindling of the tournament’s halcyon days of the 1970s and ’80s, says leading golf commentator Ewen Murray.

Next month's Irish Open golf championship at Royal Portrush is set to become a near sell-out.

IMAGINE how his little brother Gary was feeling as he watched the kid the whole family now calls G-Mac heading out to do battle for America’s major – the US Open.

GRAEME McDOWELL had little reason to stroll around in the glorious sunshine at Augusta National yesterday with the confidence of a man attempting to win the Masters green jacket at the first attempt.

A woman needed 38 stitches after being slashed about the face and neck by a man in an attack in the Co Antrim resort of Portrush today.