Our man inside the game has never quite understood why some players make it and others don’t

Four candidates to replace James Comey as FBI director are set to be interviewed by US Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

China has strongly criticised what it called America's "terrible human rights problems" in its annual report on rights abuses in the United States, citing police brutality, high levels of incarceration, racial prejudice and money politics.

Theresa May will call for a "renewed" special relationship between Britain and America as she becomes the first world leader to meet Donald Trump since his inauguration as president last week.

A draft executive order shows President Donald Trump asking for a review of America’s methods for interrogating terror suspects and whether the US should reopen CIA-run "black site" prisons outside the United States.

Oman says it has accepted 10 inmates from the US prison at Guantanamo Bay ahead of Barack Obama leaving office.

“If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible, who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time, who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer.”

Wikileaks’ Julian Assange has vowed to defend the organisation against attack after his intervention in the US presidential election, writes Dan Buckley

The leading edge of dangerous Hurricane Matthew has drenched Haiti, flooding streets and sending people scrambling to emergency shelters as the Category 4 storm threatened to batter the Caribbean's poorest nation.

An Irishman, whose sister and niece were killed in the 9/11 attacks, has told of his fear that the terrorists responsible for the atrocity could one day walk free.

IT IS almost two years since the Prime Time screening of ‘Inside Bungalow 3’, an RTÉ Investigations Unit programme that exposed horrifying abuse at a residential care unit run by the HSE.

Fifteen prisoners at the Guantanamo Bay detention centre were sent to the United Arab Emirates in the single largest release of detainees during the Obama administration, the Pentagon announced yesterday.

David Cameron signed off as British prime minister with advice for successor Theresa May to keep the UK “as close to the European Union as possible”.

British Prime Minister David Cameron begun his final session of Prime Minister's Questions in the House of Commons.

Offaly-born composer Amanda Feery won the Seán Ó Riada Composition Competition for this year’s Cork International Choral Festival and her piece will be performed on Friday in St Fin Barre’s Cathedral. She is also working on pieces for Crash Ensemble and the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra.

Derval McGovern’s house features in Home of the Year on RTÉ One on Thursday at 8.30pm.

Brendan O’Carroll is set to tell the story of the 1916 Rising as experienced by members of his family for a one-off BBC television programme which will air on RTÉ this weekend, and on BBC2 next week.

WHEN US President Barack Obama first took office in January 2009 the first executive order he signed was for the closure of the detention centre at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.

US president Barack Obama urged lawmakers to give his plan to close the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay a “fair hearing” and said he did not want to pass the issue to his successor when he leaves the White House next year.

US President Barack Obama has backed Pentagon plans to close the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay.

A Yemeni prisoner at the US base at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba appears to have been the victim of mistaken identity, suspected of being a significant member of al Qaeda and not just a low-level Islamic fighter, officials said in documents.

A Cork man, whose sister and niece were killed in the 9/11 attacks, has said he is “bitterly frustrated” that five suspects, who were captured a decade ago, have still not been tried.

You really have to wonder about what spurs on business people and associated creative types (that is, chefs who wish to make a true mark) to develop a new restaurant/gastropub without coming anywhere close to crossing the t’s and dotting the i’s.

CAN I borrow your pen?” asked the man in the bank queue. I tensed visibly. Searching my pockets for another pen, I realised that I had to give him the one I was hiding. My good pen.

It is nearly 17 years since terrorist zealots as evil — and as utterly wrong — as those who brought carnage to the Charlie Hebdo offices in Paris on Wednesday inflicted an atrocity of similar scale, impact and immorality on the people of Omagh.

The United States has returned four Afghans from Guantanamo Bay back to their home country.

The Vatican has asked the US to find an “adequate humanitarian solution” for prisoners held at the Guantanamo Bay detention centre, a reflection of Pope Francis’s vocal concern that prisoners be treated with dignity and not be subject to inhumane treatment.

The Vatican is asking the United States to find an “adequate humanitarian solution” for prisoners held at the Guantanamo Bay detention centre.

Just like the infamous H-Blocks in the North or the Guantanamo Bay camp in Cuba, ‘Bungalow 3’ is well on the way to gaining notoriety as a place of horrific abuse and mistreatment of its inmates. But who is to blame for such behaviour, apart from the perpetrators themselves?

Six prisoners from Guantanamo Bay have been transferred to Uruguay, the US government has revealed.

A UN panel has begun grilling American officials about the country’s compliance with an anti-torture treaty.

A Catholic priest found not guilty of sexually assaulting a teenage girl is embroiled in a row with his order and the Archbishop of Dublin over claims they are punishing him for being accused.

Jose Manuel Barroso is leaving after 10 years at the head of an oft-derided European Commission, but insists he has done his best, writes Europe Correspondent Ann Cahill

Former Guantanamo Bay detainee Moazzam Begg has been dramatically released after being cleared of a string of terrorist offences linked to the civil war in Syria.

The US consistently ignores the lessons of its past blunders in conflicts on the world stage — and so repeats them, writes Brahma Chellaney.

Loosely based on a torture incident in Guantanamo,Colette Sheridanfinds there’s more to Aaron Sorkin’s play than men who can’t handle the truth

Bowe Bergdahl, the US soldier who was a prisoner of war in Afghanistan for five years, has been allowed to venture off the Texas military base where he is receiving care as part of his “reintegration process” into society, the US army said.

US president Barack Obama and congressional leaders believe he does not need authorisation from Congress for some steps he might take to quell insurgency in Iraq, the Senate’s top Republican and congressional aides have said.

The US soldier released by the Taliban after five years has told military officials that he was tortured, beaten and held in a cage by his captors in Afghanistan after he tried to escape.