Catch up on some of the stories and issues highlighted on irishexaminer.com this morning.

Getting to one day play in Croke Park was the plan all along for Sean Galvin.

US President Barack Obama has used the first official rally of his re-election bid to brand Republican rival Mitt Romney as a willing rubber-stamp for failed policies championed by extreme House Republicans.

Scotsman Kenneth Richey, on death row for murder in the US, has had his death sentence and conviction overturned because he received incompetent counsel at his trial.

Fire ripped through a three-storey house near the Ohio State University campus early today, killing five people and injuring three others.