Graeme McDowell might have disappointed in the 2013 majors but three wins worldwide is a pretty good return in anyone’s book and if you’re wondering what the future holds, just ask his caddie Ken Comboy.

The wisdom of the old expression of horses for courses was rarely more amply demonstrated than at Sherwood Country Club on Sunday when Graeme McDowell captured his second Tiger Woods World Challenge title in three years, and with it the winners cheque for $1m (€765,733).

Floodwaters washing through Australia’s third-largest city crested today just shy of levels residents had feared most but high enough to submerge entire neighbourhoods and cause damage one official likened to the aftermath of war.

THE unlikely comeback.

THERE are bungalows and then there are well-placed and well-cared for bungalows like this property at Sherwood, Ovens, Co Cork.

Ian Poulter took a share of the lead at the Chevron World Challenge yet still cut a forlorn figure in the California sunshine.

Liverpool will come to a standstill today to mark the 20th anniversary of the Hillsborough disaster.

TWENTY years have passed since Pan Am Flight 103 was blown out of the skies over the small town of Lockerbie.

A 25-year-old Irish man has been killed in a workplace accident in Australia.

NATIONAL HUNT icon Desert Orchid died peacefully yesterday morning at the age of 27.

ESTATE agent Jarlath Boyd has a few strings to his selling bow with a Rochestown house called Sherwood — and it is no robbery at €550,000, he says.

IT’S been nearly 15 long years since the Lockerbie disaster but relatives who lost loved ones are still searching for answers that money can’t buy. What made the disaster all the more chilling was its timing – days before Christmas.