Rocky Mountains
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Montana town with Irish history likely to buck Republican trend
- US
- September 4, 2020, 20:00
Two hours’ drive west of Yellowstone National Park, the old, dusty mining town of Butte, Montana, edges into view. Nestled in the valleys amid the Roc(...)

Treasure was buried in the Rocky Mountains 10 years ago. It’s been found
- Life & Style
- June 9, 2020, 17:24
After 10 years the chase for hidden treasure in the Rocky Mountains comes to an end. Forrest Fenn, a New Mexico art collector who had created the trea(...)

Land Rover shows off new Defender in disguise
- Motors
- May 10, 2019, 20:07
Land Rover is, finally, on the cusp of revealing its replacement for the original Defender, but it’s trying to distract us from this all-important new(...)

Trump casts a shadow for strangers on a Rockies train
- US
- August 17, 2017, 01:00
In the 10th part of her series “Coast to Coast: Travels in Trump’s America”, Washington Correspondent Suzanne Lynch heads west over the Rock(...)

The Other Western Front – An Irishman’s Diary about the Butte mining disaster of 1917
- Opinion
- June 10, 2017, 00:01
The city of Butte, Montana, was a long way from the front lines of the first World War – five thousand miles and more on the map. But as a strange coi(...)

We're going on a Co Tipperary deerhunt
- Food & Drink
- April 8, 2017
It’s the half dark before dawn and we’re on an abandoned farm in south Tipperary trying to blend in. “This is all the way from America,” John Lalor wh(...)

Honouring the Rocky Mountain Irishmen of Colorado
- US
- September 24, 2016, 01:00
A good place to start was where people were buried. Historian Jim Walsh began his research about 13 years ago and, intent on finding out more about th(...)

An Irishman’s Diary: Butte, Montana the most Irish town in America
- Opinion
- March 18, 2016, 01:00
On the eve of St Patrick’s Day, an email arrived from a long-lost relative in Butte, Montana, announcing that, after putting it off for decades, she w(...)

Colorado shooting suspect said ‘no more baby parts’ - reports
- US
- November 29, 2015, 08:41
The man accused of opening fire at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado and killing three people said “no more baby parts” while he was b(...)

US hunter fends off grizzly by sticking arm into its throat
- US
- October 6, 2015, 06:38
A hunter tracking elk in the Montana mountains said he fended off an attacking grizzly bear by shoving his arm into its throat to induce a gag reflex(...)