John Ri Manhattan College, a modestly-sized third level institution in the Bronx with a modestly-ranked athletics department, resonates quite deeply with the GAA in New York.

A father of three who was killed when he was struck by a telephone pole was above all “a good man”, his first cousin told those attending his Requiem Mass.

A man in his early 20s is in a serious condition after he was stabbed last night in Co Tipperary.

All-Ireland finalists Mayo have been hit with a €10,000 fine for not travelling to New York for the final of the Connacht FBD League last month.

A SPRAWLING housing estate has no operational public lighting and light fittings were left hanging off and “blowing in the wind”.

The FBI arrested four men in what US authorities called a plot to detonate a bomb outside a Jewish temple and to shoot military planes with guided missiles.

US civil rights campaigner Reverend Jesse Jackson has been arrested at a demonstration outside a Chicago gun shop and charged with one count of criminal trespass to property.

BABIES in Limerick are already weekly church goers long before they are baptised.