USA: Bragging rights are usually the only reward at the end of a well-played video game. But what if high scores came with cash, too?

Singer-songwriter Don McLean’s original manuscript and notes to ‘American Pie’ have sold at auction for $1.2m (€1.10m).

An Irish wood pellet boiler manufacturer has increased turnover by 500%, boosted by British government alternative energy incentives. And in the three years since it was set up, it has sold just one boiler in Ireland, writes Trish Dromey.

NUMBER 39 Stenson Park, Farranshone in Limerick has become a jazz landmark thanks to the Varady family who moved there three years ago from Slovakia.

John Henry, the two-time American Horse of the Year, has died at the age of 32.