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For any young person in Ireland, deciding to follow Chelsea is an odd choice.

BOOKINGS for a new wizard-inspired mini-golf attraction in York have been flooding in ahead of its launch.

From Che Guevara to Thin Lizzy: Jim FitzPatrick's 10 greatest hits From Che Guevara and Thin Lizzy, to Sinead O'Connor and an imprisoned Palestinian teenager, the veteran artist tells the story behind some of his best pieces through the decades by  COVER IMAGE : Jim FitzPatrick at home in Dublin. Photograph Moya Nolan Jim FitzPatrick, 77, is one of Ireland’s foremost artists. Art is in his veins. His grandfather, the Cork-born political cartoonist Thomas FitzPatrick, was one of the most famous illustrators of the Victorian Age, with his work prominent in Punch magazine, for example.  Gro...

Spanning Time: 50 years ago, a time of great change in Broome County and the nation Gerald Smith, Special to the Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin © Provided A Zenith 26” television cost more than $600 in 1971. In thinking about this column, I began to look back at the articles that appeared in the Evening Press in January 1971 — fifty 50 years ago. Somehow, that doesn’t feel like so many years, even though it is five decades.  In 1971, the nation was still in the midst of the Vietnam War. Idi Amin became the ruler in Uganda, while Apollo 14 landed on the moon. Else...

During my 22 years as a security correspondent, I covered various operations in which gardaí and troops sealed off particular areas they were about to search. Some called it 'a ring of steel', a phrase I didn't like and never used. However, I must admit 'a ring of steel' would have been appropriate in describing the lockdown of Washington, DC, for the inauguration of Joe Biden as US president last week. Then came news that the National Guards themselves were being screened in case any of them might have allegiances to extremist groups. A chilling thought that one of them, or someone posing a...