Sam Smyth

Barry Scheck is the co-founder of the Innocence Project, a non-profit organisation that uses DNA evidence to prove the innocence of those wrongly convicted. He talks to Sam Smyth about law, his cases, and Seamus Heaney.

America has spoken. The world is now trying to make sense of what it means. To unreal Donald Trump’s success, Sam Smyth is joined in New York by defence lawyer Barry Scheck, author and one-time New York gossip columnist Joanna Molloy, and Jamie Smyth, US energy editor of The Financial Times.

This weekend the manager of The Old Spot Denise McBrien, will lead a chorus line of staff saluting the tenth anniversary of one of my favourite restaurants. Yes, there will be celebrities in attendance. But the local neighbours will be top of the guest list. It is just that sort of place.

As Marty Morrissey told me in a New York hotel, Doonbeg is the major employer in the area so its owner retains serious loyalty among the locals. And given the money Doonbeg is earning him, it probably cuts both ways.

After a six year investigation, the veteran journalist still has no credible explanation why a bullseye target had been pinned on his back by secretive data hunters.

Just days after his sad passing, Tommie Gorman’s beloved Sligo Rovers submitted a formal request for funding to redevelop the Showgrounds. The club's chairman Tommy Higgins talks about his childhood friend, developing Irish football, and the future of Sligo Rovers.

Tony O’Reilly, whose funeral is taking place today, was a supreme sportsman, businessman, media owner and international entrepreneur. He deserved better than the way he was treated in the end.

The trial of NFL football hero OJ Simpson was one of biggest stories from America in the past 30 years. His death last week leaves many dark areas around the crimes he was never found guilty of having committed.

At 45, Leo Varadkar has a life ahead of him after politics. He has left a mixed legacy behind him, which contains lessons for his successor.

Passing away last week at 92, the Limerick-raised entrepreneur, actor and writer leaves behind a legacy of helter-skelter mischief-making, high wit and a life well lived.