Limerick’s own Neil Cusack saw a lot in America, like hillbillies with shotguns chasing athletes, but for a moment he owned America too. This weekend 40 years ago he won the oldest and most celebrated city marathon in the world, a moment that brought a welcome sense of joy and colour and even the exotic to Ireland 1974

Investigators were trying today to find out why a gunman killed 13 people at an immigration centre before apparently shooting himself.

Up to 13 people were killed and 26 others injured when a man armed with a high-powered rifle opened fire in New York today, according to US reports.