A man has implicated himself in the death of six-year-old Etan Patz, whose disappearance 33 years ago on his way to school helped launch a missing children’s movement that put kids’ faces on milk cartons, police said.

FLYING 3,000 miles to drown the shamrock, blurt out the cúpla focail and watch a St Patrick’s Day parade seems a strange way for an Irish holidaymaker to spend hundreds of euro.

Lady Gaga’s life is to be turned into a movie.

Hundreds of gay couples recited vows in emotion-choked voices and triumphantly hoisted their long-awaited marriage certificates as New York became the sixth and largest state to recognise same-sex weddings.

THE statistics tell the official story but word-of-mouth paints a starker picture of the shift back towards the age-old curse of mass emigration.

Supermodel Naomi Campbell’s new boss has warned her to ditch her trademark stiletto heels when she turns up for cleaning duty in New York next week.

RESEARCHERS have reportedly discovered the true descendants of an Irish girl who was the first person to pass through New York’s historic Ellis Island immigration centre.

SINGER Boy George tried to perform court-ordered community service on Monday but found a major obstacle when a throng of news photographers prevented him from sweeping the streets of Lower Manhattan.

Boy George will perform his court-ordered community service by picking up litter on New York City streets in the August heat, a sanitation spokesman said.