Ballyliffin

Donald Trump has performed many remarkable u-turns down the years and one of the most striking, with major consequences around the world, including in Ireland, involves climate change.

A MAN killed after his motorcycle was involved in a crash with a car in Co Donegal has been named as 56-year-old Eddie McIntyre.

TWO days after telling anyone who would listen that he was "good value" to win a second Dubai Duty Free Irish Open, Padraig Harrington proved his point with an opening 68 in the £5.

TWO GAA legends were given a golf master-class yesterday as the two sports were combined at the Irish Open in Co Donegal.

A MOTORCYCLIST in his fifties died yesterday evening following a crash in Donegal.

Since it was revived in 1975, the Irish Open golf tournament, for a number of reasons, was restricted to venues across Leinster and Munster for almost four decades.

IRELAND'S most northerly golf club yesterday welcomed some of the world's top golfers and figures from sport, television and politics to the fairways for the curtain-raiser to this year's Irish Open in Co Donegal.

Simon Thornton and Neil O'Briain shared top of the leaderboard at the Rosapenna Golf Hotel after 122 players fought for one of the four Irish qualifying places in this week's Dubai Duty Free Irish Championship, hosted by the Rory Foundation at Ballyliffin.