A round-up of today's other news stories
Tourism body told to target US golfers
Taoiseach Enda Kenny is to order Tourism Ireland to launch a major marketing campaign in the US to attract golfers to come to Ireland, in the wake of Rory McIlroy's victory in the US Open, reports MARK HENNESSY.
“I want to see a massive onslaught on the American market. We have had Pádraig Harrington, then Graeme McDowell and now Rory McIlroy.
“I want them to come to the home of champions.
“I want to see Ireland branded for golfing fans in the US as ‘the home of champions’.
"I want them to be brought to play links golf courses – the ones where our champions cut their teeth," he told The Irish Timesat a British-Irish Council meeting in London yesterday.
Cork woman killed in Australia named
A 28-year-old woman from Cork killed in a road crash in Victoria in Australia at the weekend has been named locally as Elaine O’Driscoll of Rossbrook on the Model Farm Road on the city’s southside. Ms O’Driscoll was on a backpacking trip when the minivan in which she was a passenger rolled over an embankment near Kenley about 400km north of Melbourne after it pulled in to allow a truck to pass.
Man questioned over killing in 2007
A man has been arrested in Co Sligo in connection with the murder of English man Thomas Thompson four years ago.The man, who is in his 30s, was arrested in Ballymote yesterday morning, and was being held under Section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act 1984 last night.
Mr Thompson (59) went missing in April 2007. His remains were found nine months later in a shallow grave just off the main Portlaoise to Stradbally road at Dysart.
Mr Thompson lived in Portlaoise for about six years. He worked in the construction industry in the midlands and Dublin areas.