By the time Ella Fitzgerald came to perform at the Cork Jazz Festival in October 1980, she was the well-established and undisputed singing queen of the world jazz scene. Fitzgerald’s stint at Cork Opera House was a welcome boost for the then burgeoning festival, whose organisers shelled out a reported £16,000 for the star.

Many Muslim Americans cringe at the way they have been portrayed by both candidates during the US presidential campaign - either as potential jihadis or eyes and ears who can help the government's anti-terror efforts.

A woman believed to have given birth in the bathroom of her boyfriend’s apartment before tossing her newborn daughter to her death from a seventh-storey window was being held without bail on a murder charge, police and prosecutors said.

Harbour pilot Ciaran Monks helps guide the Royal Princess into Cobh on the new series of Cork Mega Port on TV3.

Doctors said his first blackout was stress related and gave him sleeping tablets. But when Noel McGrath’s heart stopped, tests proved he had the irregular heartbeat condition, Long QT, says Catherine Shanahan. 

The Minister for Foreign Affairs will be in New York today where he'll meet with groups who help Irish immigrants.

It was the day Donegal’s ‘likeable losers’ tag stuck.

Mayo County Board officials will meet manager James Horan tomorrow night to discuss a claim he made that they proceeded with a fundraiser in New York despite being told the team would not be present.

At least some of 25 cats found in plastic bags hanging from trees in a New York City suburb were killed with blows to the head, an investigator said.

Bryant ‘Peewee’ Cruz’s life changed when a local policeman took him off the Port Chester streets and hand delivered him to a boxing gym called Champs in New Rochelle, just north of New York City.

The Philadelphia 76ers couldn’t have picked a worse time to record their first win in 27 attempts.

This will be the biggest year for a small soccer club in the Bronx.

Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore says he is concerned with ensuring young emigrants have opportunities abroad to allow them to return home some day with even more experience.

Want to pull off your own €35m worldwide ATM heist? It might not be that easy, experts say. Paul Wagenseil reports.

The sophistication of a global network of thieves who drained cash machines around the globe of $45m (€35m) in mere hours sent ripples through the security world, not merely for the size of the operation and ease with which it was carried out, but also for the threat that more such thefts may be in store.

Many Irish in the US would love to return for Christmas, but some can’t risk it, writes John Riordan in New York

In the basement of a Yonkers pub, aspiring hurling coaches from the New York area gathered around coffee cups and notepads early last Saturday morning.

President Michael D Higgins arrives in New York later today for his first official trip to the US.

August and Then Some

A 28-year-old from Cavan has won $10 million (€7.6m) in the New York Lottery.

Many young Irish people are taking a chance and leaving for New York. John Riordan meets some of them to talk about how they adapted to life in the Big Apple and their plans for Christmas

IT IS ludicrously early on a Friday morning.

THERE is added significance to some simple utterances being thrown around by the New York ladies football team as they disperse into the hot night at the home of the Rockland GAA club in Orangeburg, NY.

THE family of a 4-year-old Cork girl undergoing treatment for a rare brain tumour in the US will discover this week whether she will require radiotherapy treatment.

THERE’S STILL a bit of life yet in Broadway as it rushes north past Gaelic Park, snaking endlessly up through the Bronx, barely noticing the humble theatre that New York GAA shares with Manhattan College.

WELL the Muppet Show continues in Fianna Fáil. By God these TDs have learned nothing.

THE parents of a Cork toddler, undergoing specialist treatment in New York for a brain tumour, say their wish for 2011 is their brave daughter will start playschool in September, free from disease.

BRAVE little Megan Malone has given her parents an early Christmas gift in New York by making remarkable progress from a rare brain tumour.

A BRAVE little Cork girl with a rare and life-threatening disease has begun specialist treatment in America buoyed by the news that her tumour has reduced by 75%.

Within hours of his capture, US prosecutors say Russian spy suspect Juan Lazaro admitted his name was an alias.

A US judge granted bail to one person accused of spying for Russia and denied bail to two others after a prosecutor warned the defendants had plenty of helpers in the US to help them flee.

ONE of the suspects in an alleged spy ring has confessed to US federal agents that he worked for Russia’s intelligence service, federal prosecutors said yesterday.

US AGENTS shattered an alleged Russian spy ring after a decade-long probe, announcing the arrest of 10 “deep-cover” suspects accused of infiltrating policymaking and reporting back to Moscow.

NEW Rose of Tralee Lisa Murtagh yesterday confessed she was hesitant about asking for time off work to attend the Rose of Tralee — for fear her bosses would think she was entering a beauty pageant.

Green Party minister Eamon Ryan is today due to meet Irish people living and working illegally in the United States.

US Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton readied a New York state-wide victory tour today after romping to re-election – a political milestone that bolstered her status as the Democratic front-runner for the 2008 presidential nomination.

Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton and gubernatorial candidate Eliot Spitzer cruised to landslide victories in New York state’s Democratic primary day, turning back long-shot challengers on a night that produced a string of lopsided state-wide contests.

Councils in the Republic were today urged to join an all-island campaign to prevent 25,000 undocumented Irish immigrants in the United States becoming the victim of tough new laws.

An actor who once played an aspiring mobster on The Sopranos faces murder charges along with another man in the death of an off-duty police officer, authorities said.

A man identified as a rap music promoter was fatally shot while sitting in his van in New York city – three days after the killing of Run-DMC founder Jam Master Jay, authorities said.

THE latest three attacks linked to the elusive Washington area sniper were carried out near major highways that would have allowed the killer to come and go quickly.