It's not just a thing in Ireland.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny’s controversial St Patrick’s Day meeting with US president Donald Trump will take place during an expanded trade mission, writes political correspondent Fiachra Ó Cionnaith.

A judge has handed down a sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole for a Georgia man convicted of murder by jurors who believed he had intentionally left his toddler son in a hot SUV to die.

A fast-weakening Hurricane Matthew which has been blamed for at least four deaths in the US, all in Florida, continued its march along the Atlantic coast.

Don’t get too ansty if the bartenders at the Tír na nÓg pub in Aarhus, Denmark, appear to take their time answering the phone.

The number of ministerial trips abroad for the traditional St Patrick’s Day celebrations have been cut by two thirds this year in the wake of the collapse of the Fine Gael-Labour coalition.

ENGLAND: Britain’s prime minister has been serenaded by a man with a ukulele who sang that he should "fuck off back to Eton".

The Government's travel schedule for St Patrick's Day has been unveiled.

Dublin has been voted one of the friendliest cities on the planet by an influential travel magazine.

Dublin has been voted one of the friendliest cities on the planet by an influential travel magazine.

’Tis nice for some.

A horse gets spooked, gallops through intersections and crashes into five parked cars in this clip, before it’s stopped and “calmed down with carrots”.

The transport minister has told a men-only lunch at an Irish society event in the United States that courage is needed to make the future equal for all including gay and straight and male and female.

Transport Minister Leo Varadkar says he would attend a St Patrick’s Day dinner in the US boycotted by the Tánaiste because it refuses to admit women.

The government has announced details of the largest St Patrick's Day travel programme since it came to office.

Firefighters tackled a giant blaze fuelled by 5,600 tons of rubber at the Port of Savannah in Georgia, USA, where a towering column of black smoke could be seen from miles away.

Looking for that dollhouse from The Late Late Toy Show? It was the Kidcraft Magnolia Mansion, €179.99, supplied by Mimitoys.

As the Obamas and Britain’s Queen Elizabeth can all testify, Irish people are still considered to be among the friendliest in the world.

FIANNA FÁIL TD Timmy Dooley has criticised Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore for refusing to attend a male-only dinner during his St Patrick’s Day trip to America.

Four US soldiers plotted to assassinate Barack Obama and overthrow the government, a court has heard.

Four US soldiers plotted to assassinate Barack Obama and overthrow the government, a court has heard.

Limerick’s loss has been Carolina’s gain as Frank McMahon cooks up a seafood storm in the deep south. On the 4th of July, he tells John Riordan how historic Charleston cast its spell on him

Supporters of American death row inmate Troy Davis in the US and Europe tried just about anything to spare him from lethal injection tonight for killing a Georgia policeman, a crime he and others have insisted for years that he did not commit.

GEORGIA’S pardons board rejected clemency for Troy Davis yesterday, one day before his scheduled execution, despite high-profile support from figures including an ex-president and a former FBI director for the claim that he was wrongly convicted of killing a police officer in 1989.

A SIPTU bank account at the centre of a number of investigations was used to fund six trips to New York by a Department of Finance official who had a key role in industrial relations issues.

WHEN quizzed for her thoughts on the controversial SIPTU training fund yesterday, Health Minister Mary Harney laid out what exactly €2.35 million could do in the health service.

THE HSE will today hand over further documentation to SIPTU on the controversial €2.35 million training fund the union repeatedly insists it did not receive.

A 53-year-old man pleaded guilty today to resisting police outside the set of a Miley Cyrus movie on the Georgia coast in the US after prosecutors agreed to drop charges that he tried to stalk the teen pop star.

Ceann Comhairle John O’Donoghue spent more than €200,000 of taxpayers’ money on perks including top class flights, limousines and VIP airport lounges over the past two years, it was revealed today.

A routine river survey took an unexpected twist today after scientists pulled a 10ft monster python from the water in Co Wexford.

The teenage brother of a man charged with murdering his father and seven others in a mobile home insisted he would never harm his family and said a dispute over drugs could have prompted the killings.

A FRANTIC caller told authorities he had just come home to find several family members beaten to death and another barely breathing, according to a 911 call released yesterday following the weekend attack at a mobile home park in south-eastern Georgia.

An eighth person died from grievous wounds suffered in an attack at a US mobile home, with police acknowledging they didn’t know if a killer was on the loose.

A US man charged with trying to stalk teenage star Miley Cyrus told an investigator he planned on returning to her Georgia movie set and “finishing things”, her security guard said.

Police searched the Georgia home of a 53-year-old man accused of attempted to stalk Miley Cyrus during the filming of the teenager’s new movie.

WHEN President Barack Obama met the press on Tuesday morning to discuss his budget proposals, he was sporting a green tie to mark St Patrick’s Day. “Green tie, not bad, huh?” he began.

MANY people may have thought a family’s quest for a €160 million fortune was dead and buried following a DNA test.

Dozens of people are fighting for their lives today after an explosion and fire rocked a sprawling Georgia sugar refinery.

A CORK-BORN priest died in Augusta, Georgia, in the US after a car accident.

An ice storm wiped away the traditional green stripe painted on Fifth Avenue, New York, but it could not keep away thousands of St Patrick’s Day celebrants from the city’s parade today.

Taoiseach Bertie Ahern will present the traditional bowl of shamrock to US president George Bush in the White House on Friday.

A CORK family’s efforts to prove their right to a multi-million dollar inheritance will be featured in a TV series next week.