Tens of thousands of people turned out for day two of the tournament, with some of the biggest crowds cheering for local hero Rory McIlroy as well as Dubliner Shane Lowry who scooped the Claret Jug ...

The 153rd Open at Royal Portrush is putting the Co Antrim town on the global map, delighted locals have said.

Cormac Moore concludes the ‘Journal’ was correct to judge Eoin MacNeill’s performance as Free State representative on the Boundary Commission as one of ‘inertia, incapacity and appalling ineptitude’.