If ever a celebration was warranted, it’s Mother’s Day. Anna Jarvis from Virginia in the US originally initiated the special day to honour her own mother who lost nine of her 13 children before they reached adulthood.

Two white men in their late-70s will now battle it out to become the standard-bearer for an increasingly diverse Democratic party in the US. Julie Pace reports from Washington

Right now the US democratic primaries are well underway with the first three states having voted.

The decision on proposals to recover the telegraph machine from the Titanic by cutting a hole in the ship’s hull has been deferred by the US judge presiding over the case.

Fine Gael has launched its economic plan for the next five years which focuses heavily on Brexit and the party’s record of financial stability, but acknowledged that mistakes have been made and lessons learned in the recent past regarding the spiralling budgets of the likes of the National Children’s Hospital.

Fine Gael’s focus is on Brexit but health and homelessness cannot be far behind, writes David Davin-Power.

Video games are now played by more than 2bn people worldwide — but despite affecting up to 8% of players, addiction still isn’t widely recognised, says Ferris Jabr.

House Democrats have subpoenaed the US Energy Secretary as part of their impeachment investigation into President Donald Trump’s dealings with Ukraine.

Start-up Output Sports says its wearable product also assesses injury risks in training, writes Trish Dromey

There was also a fatal crash in Co Cavan when a pedestrian was hit by a bus

A reader from Ovens recently got in touch to voice concern about the dead horse chestnut trees

Gardaí investigating a family-run ATM gang have arrested a man for a second time, just days after he was released.

Gardaí have resumed questioning a 28-year-old man in connection with the attempted robbery of an ATM in Virginia in Co Cavan last week, after he was discharged from hospital.

Gardaí believe a gang based both sides of the border are behind the series of ATM thefts in the last year.

Carole Mansfield from Lilys4Paws.ie also teaches Dog Yoga as more and more pet lovers want a wider connection with their four-legged friends.

A man arrested as part of investigations into an attempted ATM theft in Co. Cavan has been released without charge.

Investigations are continuing this morning after an attempted theft of an ATM in Cavan.

Gardaí believe there could be a link between a foiled ATM robbery in Co Cavan overnight and several similar ATM thefts in the North East in recent months.

The annual four-day Tour de Munster charity cycle came to a close on Cork’s gruelling St Patrick’s Hill today.

The Virginia office building that houses USA Today was evacuated for several hours for what police said was an unsubstantiated report of an armed man.

The Taoiseach Leo Varadkar will issue an apology to the women impacted by the CervicalCheck programme failures in the next Dáil term.

A review into an "IT-glitch" which caused hundreds of women not to receive their smear test results is due to be published today.

Eoin Edwards hit the road to Ulster, and the Lakeland County of Cavan, for a taste of Downton Abbey-style hospitality.

The Chairperson of the CervicalCheck rapid review has said he has started investigating the latest CervicalCheck scandal.

Women involved in the latest CervicalCheck scandal are losing faith in the system and want answers, that’s according to ‘Sharon’, the woman who revealed the most recent problem with communications within the service.

A CervicalCheck patient support group has welcomed the HSE's decision

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Minister for Health Simon Harris has said it is “highly regrettable” that patient representatives were kept in the dark on the latest CervicalCheck controversy.

The past in the world of professional golf was truly a foreign country.

The HSE has announced that there will be "an immediate rapid review" into the IT glitch that led to 800 women not receiving their smear test results.

The HSE has confirmed there are a number of other women caught up in the latest CervicalCheck controversy in addition to the 800 revealed yesterday.

Approximately 800 women were not issued with their CervicalCheck results due to a technology issue, the HSE said.

A 39-year-old man has admitted killing his housemate, following a row over a New Year’s Eve poker game at their Cavan home. He stabbed him with a knife he used in his job on the ‘kill floor’ in a meat plant.

The Brexit plight of intensive pig, poultry and mushroom farmers has been raised by Thomas Duffy from Virginia, Cavan, who was last week declared the 37th Macra na Feirme National President.

A morning-after headache may be the side effect of a pint of plain and a whiskey chaser but at least it’s short-lived — the long-term hangover is the thousands of tonnes of carbon emitted during production.

Tonight Tralee hosts a top-of-the-table sellout as Garvey’s Warriors take on Superleague rivals Templeogue. But as someone who went up against Carmelo Anthony in his first game Stateside, played in the famed March Madness in college and the cut-throat Asian continental league where loony owners could fire a teammate at half-time, Jason Killeen will hardly be daunted.

Three politicians in Virginia have brought a new meaning to the phrase “succession planning”. In addition, they have changed the harmless school year book into a ticking career timebomb, writes Terry Prone.

A United States governor has been urged to resign over a racist photo in which he appeared more than 30 years ago.

Wayne Rooney was arrested in the US accused of public intoxication, police have said.

Facebook’s decision to expand in the heart of Dublin 4 and create room for an additional 5,000 employees is a powerful endorsement of Ireland’s foreign direct investment (FDI) strategy and planning, writes Joe Gill.

Martin Luther King’s son has a dream: that American democracy will be “reclaimed” by the midterm elections.

To understand Charlottesville is to understand the divisive, divided, and vitriolic America we now know, writes Joyce Fegan.

The discovery came after a series of glass-filled pipe bombs targeted Hillary Clinton, former president Barack Obama and other prominent Democrats.

An astonishing 77% of farmers have said the Government should find a way to ensure that underused land is given over to growing fodder, when they were interviewed for this year’s Irish Examiner/ICMSA opinion poll.

Trump has created another Charlottesville moment with how he apportions blame — and this time it was on a world stage, writes Eli Lake.