Well, that was easy. President Donald Trump on Sunday said he would remove tariffs on Irish whiskey after golfer Shane Lowry and the Irish prime minister did the unthinkable: They asked him. “Everybody’s been bugging me,” the president said during remarks at the Irish Open. “They’re saying, can you do me a favor? It’s so
Seoirse Comerford owns the Comerford bar in Doonbeg. He described the tournament as “unbelievable”. “If you look at the red double decker buses going up and down the street full of people, we never thought we would have seen the like of that.” He said the golf course is a big employer and is keeping
The Eiffel Tower was closed on Monday after staff went on strike over female workers being removed for the visit of a Hindu religious group, workers and management said. A delegation of around 100 people linked to the Bochasanwasi Akshar Purushottam Swaminarayan Sanstha (BAPS) group visited the landmark in the French capital on Saturday. Staff
Russian President Vladimir Putin met with U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner at the Kremlin on Saturday for talks to try to revive a stalled push to end the Russia-Ukraine war. The envoys’ visit came as both sides escalated aerial attacks. Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy both agreed to pause strikes on each other’s
Josh Dubow August 25, 2026 — 9:16am Save You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. AAA Less than three weeks out from his team’s historic NFL match at the MCG, San Francisco 49ers owner Jed York was arrested in Ohio and pleaded no contest
Andy Burnham will mark his first foreign visit as prime minister with a trip to Kyiv on Monday to reiterate the UK’s support for Ukraine and honour the country’s independence day. The prime minister will chair his first meeting of the “coalition of the willing”, set up by the UK and France under his predecessor,
