Lance Armstrong lied his whole career, made millions out of his deceit and deprived countless competitors of the precious little sunlight that cycling basks in every summer.

St Declan’s Stone in Ardmore, Co Waterford is probably more of a geological miracle than anything else but even if it didn’t, as legend has it, follow that county’s patron saint over the Irish Sea from Wales, it remains a subtle testimony to endurance and cultural memory.

“Let’s face it,” reasoned Time Magazine, with its online readership on Monday, “It’s good to have the Irish back.”

IT’S difficult to concentrate on much else when surrounded by the after-effects of Sandy battering this city but I did want to finally bring the Notre Dame football team back to an Irish sports page.

US college football team Notre Dame’s celebrations were cut short after one of their officials collapsed on the flight home from Ireland.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny will ring the bell at the New York Stock Exchange this morning as he continues a busy trip to the US to continue the St Patrick’s weekend celebrations.

Ireland will pay the full price for the mistakes made in its name, the Taoiseach has told US businessmen.

Closer economic ties will be agreed between Ireland and Britain today when Enda Kenny meets David Cameron in Downing Street.

The lawyer for an 81-year-old Roman Catholic priest who faces possible extradition to Ireland said the clergyman moved to the South Bend area of Indiana in 1990 to take a job counselling drug and alcohol abusers.

A man who beat his ex-wife to death with an unloaded shotgun during an eight-hour leave from prison was executed early today in Indiana, hours after the state governor denied his request for clemency.