The Children’s Minister has given a conflicting account of when the Taoiseach first became aware that Tusla had involvement in Sgt Maurice McCabe’s case.

A white police officer who fatally shot an unarmed black man on a city street has been charged with first-degree manslaughter, prosecutors in Tulsa, Oklahoma, said.

Police have used tear gas to disperse protesters after officers were injured and a major road was shut down during a demonstration over the latest fatal shooting of a black man by US police.

FOR decades, elements of childcare in this country left a lot to be desired. 

From the air above a small Oklahoma town, the 300 steel oil storage tanks that dot the landscape appear filled to the brim, their floating lids bobbing atop more than 65m barrels of oil.

Health Minister Leo Varadkar has said it is up to health officials who were at the centre of the foster home abuse case in the South-East to consider calls for their resignations.

ENGLAND: A judge has handed nine-month jail sentences to two prisoners who starred in a three-minute rap video recorded behind bars on an illegally held mobile phone.

USA: A Missouri man named Bud Weisser was taken into custody for trespassing into — of all places — a Budweiser brewery in St Louis.

RUSSIA: A portly politician who somehow managed to get himself stuck inside a tank reportedly threatened to shoot bystanders who were standing around watching.

There are more than 1,400 sex offenders in the country who have to report to gardaí, a conference heard yesterday.

US prosecutors have charged a volunteer law enforcement officer over the death of a man who was shot dead as he lay on the ground at the officer’s feet.

Here's what to watch on the box tonight.

A comeback extravaganza by country superstar Garth Brooks has been called off after residents around the stadium objected to the five-night run.

JULIANNA Barwick is contradictory. Her music is esoteric, often eerie. In person, however, Barwick is chatty, upbeat. and sociable, so the isolation of Iceland, where she recorded her new album, Nepenthe, drove her to distraction. She would sit in cafes, watching the world pass. The loneliness worsened as the weeks passed. She worried for her sanity.

Voters in Oklahoma approved an amendment to the state’s constitution to end affirmative action programmes in state government that had been designed to increase the hiring of minorities and women in the state’s 115 agencies.

Together, they added up to a bevy of obstacles that could have made the 94th PGA Championship a most forgettable event here at the Kiawah Island Golf Resort’s Ocean Course.

IT’S A funny place, Ireland.

The explanation for a shooting rampage that terrorised a black neighbourhood in the US state of Oklahoma and left three people dead may lie in a killing that took place more than two years ago, it has been revealed.

Police in Oklahoma have arrested two white male suspects over shootings that left three people dead and two more critically wounded, all black, in the Tulsa area.

A line of violent thunderstorms roared across middle America, killing six people in two states, with several tornadoes touching down in Oklahoma and high winds pounding rural Kansas.

A massive storm billed as the worst in decades left vast areas of the US paralysed by snow and ice today.

A massive winter storm roared into America’s heartland today, carrying a paralysing punch of dangerous ice and snow that shut down airports, schools, colleges and government offices.

Rory McIlroy, put himself into golf’s record books with a sensational start to The Open at St Andrews today.

Rory McIlroy, the kid many expect to be king one day, put himself into golf’s record books with a sensational start to The Open at St Andrews today.

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TROUBLED times for Pádraig Harrington.

A deadly winter storm that caked America’s centre with a thick layer of ice claimed at least 17 lives and blacked out more than 600,000 homes and businesses.

Two people were killed when their mobile home was battered by a storm, US authorities said today.

Sweden’s Carl Pettersson and American Jason Bohn have both pulled out of this week’s USPGA Championship at Southern Hills in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

A CERTAIN Steve Banky became something of a household name in American golfing circles at the weekend.

IT ISN’T often the temperature becomes the main topic of conversation in the lead-up to a major golf championship but that has been very much the case here over the past few days.

Sergio Garcia hopes to show this week that he is over what happened in the British Open at Carnoustie.

Tiger Woods travelled from Akron to Tulsa last night with yet another world title to his name and a reminder to the rest of golf that when he is on his game nobody comes close.

Tiger Woods was back enjoying himself at one of his happiest hunting grounds today.

AFTER a week of incessant interviews and celebration, Pádraig Harrington is gradually beginning to refocus on his golfing career.

Paul McGinley today hailed Padraig Harrington’s Open victory as vital in breaking down the barriers to more European success in the majors.

Despite falling outside the world’s top 100, Ryder Cup heroes Darren Clarke and Paul McGinley have received late invitations to play in the US PGA Championship in Tulsa next month.

Colin Montgomerie may not be able to stop the clock ticking – he was 44 on Saturday – but what he can do is stop his world ranking falling.

US GOLFER Tiger Woods’ newborn daughter Sam Alexis has appeared in front of the cameras for the first time.

US golfer Tiger Woods' new-born daughter Sam Alexis has appeared in front of the cameras for the first time.

Cork golfer Aaron O’Callaghan kicked off his spring campaign in style with a victory at the 54-hole Rice Intercollegiate tournament in Texas.

American chat show queen Oprah Winfrey has come under fire for crashing an Oklahoma