Taoiseach Enda Kenny led Dáil tributes to the six students who died in the Berkeley tragedy.

Shane Lowry secured his place in next month’s US Open with another superb display at the BMW PGA Championship.

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The Taoiseach Enda Kenny has raised the issue of Undocumented Irish in the US during a speech in San Francisco.

Bittersweet is how violinist, Catherine Leonard describes the feeling she anticipates when she and pianist, Hugh Tinney will perform the last event in the West Cork Music’s Concert Series at Bantry House on Saturday.

Specialist US travel accommodation company Airbnb has chosen Dublin as the location for its European headquarters.

FOR the likes of singers Florence Welch and Eliza Doolittle, actor Hugh Jackman and supermodel cum model scout, Erin O’Connor, the humdrum of Monday to Friday eating is nothing short of indulgence thanks to little packages that arrive at their London doorsteps at dawn.

More than 1,000 Occupy Wall Street protesters have blocked cargo trucks at some of the US West Coast’s busiest ports, forcing terminals in Oakland, California, Portland, Oregon, and Washington state to halt operations.

THOUSANDS of people fled their homes along the California coast yesterday as a tsunami triggered by the massive earthquake in Japan began hitting the US West Coast after rolling through Hawaii.

Tsunami waves have hit Hawaii and swept through the island chain after an earthquake in Japan sparked evacuations throughout the Pacific and as far as the US western coast.

Two to three hundred bodies have been found in a north-eastern coastal area of Japan after a massive earthquake triggered a tsunami.

A massive tsunami triggered by the largest earthquake in Japan’s recorded history slammed into the eastern coast today sweeping away boats, cars, homes and people.

A devastating magnitude-8.8 earthquake struck Chile early today, shattering buildings and bridges, killing at least 122 people and setting off a tsunami that threatened every nation around the Pacific Ocean – roughly a quarter of the globe.

The Tánaiste arrives in Washington today for talks with members of the Obama administration.

Tánaiste Mary Coughlan today officially opened the new offices of IDA Ireland in Irvine, California.

A light plane has crashed into a US seaside holiday house in heavy fog, killing two children inside the house and two people aboard the plane.

AER LINGUS yesterday announced fuel surcharges would increase to as much as €90 on key transatlantic routes — the second rise by the airline in two months.

Heavy snow covered the Northern California mountains and rain and wind hit the US West Coast as a third day of winter storms left at least three people dead and hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses in California, Oregon and Washington without power.

A huge asteroid will have a close encounter with Earth this weekend, but astronomers say there is no danger of an impact.

North Korea has apparently finished loading fuel into a long-range ballistic missile, Bush administration officials said today as signs continued that the reclusive communist state will soon test a weapon that could reach the US.

All-Ireland football and hurling champions Kerry and Cork are in talks about a football clash to raise money for players' holidays.

Hopes for an end to a US West Coast ports standoff pleased investors today, prompting them to buy stocks and give the market its first advance in five sessions.