As your American-based golf correspondent, I’ve got a confession to make. I didn’t fancy my first pints of Guinness. In fact, I didn’t acquire a taste for it until my first trip to Ireland a little more than a decade ago and a visit to Temple Bar’s cobbled streets between the River Liffey and Dame Street in Dublin.

The Irish Whale and Dolphin Group (IWDG) will host its annual All Island Whale Watch at 20 headlands around the Irish coast today.

A search operation off the coast of Portrush for a missing man has had to be called off for the day.

Police and Coastguard teams are to resume a search later this morning for a man missing in the sea off Ramore Head in Portrush.

Whale and dolphin spotters were training their binoculars on seas around Ireland today in the hope of spotting a glimpse of the country’s largest visitors.