Election season may be dominating every minute of the relentless news cycle on this side of the Atlantic but Carl Frampton has come stateside looking for a different kind of Big Mo.

New York may have been sweltering in the high summer heat, but boxer Carl Frampton strode the streets yesterday as the very definition of cool. Just 72 hours out from the biggest night of his life, the Jackal was calm, collected and ready to pounce.

Olive Chester is currently having cocktails in Manhattan.

Lorraine Butler from Tipperary knew she had to do something special for her grandmother Olive Chester’s 80th birthday.

Pride parades in New York, San Francisco and other US cities drew millions of revellers yesterday, two weeks after a mass shooting at a Florida nightclub galvanised the LGBT community, and rekindled outrage over American gun violence.

International make-up artist and the master of nudes Wendy Rowe shares her secret to glowing skin with Clodagh Finn. Hint – it’s an inside job.

Lights have been switched off in homes across the globe to raise awareness about the impact of energy use on climate change.

New York’s World Trade Centre at Ground Zero, the Big Wheel on Place de la Concorde in Paris, and City Hall in Tel Aviv are three of the latest landmarks to join the growing list of famous international attractions that will go green this St Patrick’s Day.

“You a fight fan?” the owner of my laundromat asked as he leaned back against a washing machine, his arm awkwardly stretched back over the whirring of a spin cycle.

Aogán Ó Fearghail didn’t recognise Emma Mundy immediately.

The Eiffel Tower in Paris is the most popular spot in the world to take a selfie, according to new statistics.

As the UN campaigns to end violence against women, European Correspondent Ann Cahill

Tomorrow’s Oscars won’t just inspire cinema audiences. They’ll inspire countless holidays and city breaks too.

The lucky winners of the National Lottery’s Big Money Game TV gameshow jetted off to New York yesterday morning for the trip of a lifetime.

American daredevil Nik Wallenda has become the first man to cross a Grand Canyon-area gorge on a tightrope, completing his latest record-breaking feat in under 23 minutes.

Final preparations are taking place in Dublin today ahead of St Patrick's Day tomorrow.

You're taking the stairs in your office block and a large group of people in running shoes bustle past you…

North Korea, poised to conduct a nuclear test any day now, has posted a bizzare video on YouTube depicting a US city resembling New York engulfed in flames after an apparent missile attack.

Golfing great Tom Watson – at 63 old enough to be Rory McIlroy’s grandfather - was today named as the oldest Ryder Cup captain in history.

From Sandy to the elections, New York has dominated the headlines. Resident expert Douglas Rogers encourages tourists to return to the city with his best budget tips.

New York City moved closer to resuming its frenetic pace by getting back its vital subways today, three days after a superstorm left neighbouring New Jersey stunned by miles of coastal devastation.

The sun shone again over New York yesterday, as the city and much of the US east coast took the first steps back to normality after being battered by superstorm Sandy.

SOMEONE once said that news is all about shouting out that “Lord Jones is dead” to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive in the first place.

New York authorities have confirmed that all nine bystanders caught in the crossfire of a shooting outside the Empire State Building were wounded by two police officers who had never fired their weapons on duty before.

A man fatally shot a former colleague near the Empire State Building and then was killed by police in a gun battle that wounded nine bystanders outside one of New York’s most popular landmarks.

Thousands of New York’s Irish-Americans and holiday- makers are on alert this morning after an horrific multiple shooting in one of the city’s best-known tourist districts.

A recently laid-off shop worker has shot dead a former colleague outside New York's iconic Empire State Building before being killed by police.

A recently-fired shop worker shot a former colleague to death and then randomly opened fired on others near New York’s Empire State Building, police officials said.

At least four people were shot outside New York’s Empire State Building this morning and the gunman is dead, city officials have said.

Several people have been shot outside New York’s Empire State Building.

Fire officials report that several people have been shot near the Empire State building in New York.

Justin Timberlake is selling his New York penthouse.

Van Morrison’s Into the Mystic seems to nestle on the humid air and float away off to the Ramapo Mountains, visible in the distance beyond the ballpark’s centre field fence.

I thought rip-off Ireland was gone but, unfortunately, no one told the powers that be in Croke Park.

Joey Barton told his Twitter followers on Sunday that after he got sent off against Man City, he tried and failed to get “one of theirs” to accompany him.

President Michael D Higgins adjusted the green, white, and orange ribbons on the wreath and bowed his head.

Hundreds of world landmarks from Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate to the Great Wall of China went dark last night, part of a global effort to highlight climate change.

Tourism organisations around the globe will be green with envy this week as many of the world’s best-known landmarks turn emerald to mark St Patrick’s Day and promote Ireland as a tourist destination.

As Casablanca turns 70 years old and with just days to go to the Oscars, film critic Philip French picks the finest pay-off lines of all time

The world’s most famous landmarks will go green next month to mark St Patrick’s Day.