Cyclist Lance Armstrong, who admitted during an interview with Oprah Winfrey that he used steroids, blood boosters and other banned performance-enhancing drugs during his career, is to sell the Texas mansion where he gave the interview.

Rory McIlroy has issued a pre-Masters battle cry as he bids to win the Valero Texas Open ahead of his return to Augusta.

Rory McIlroy is right back in contention at the Valero Texas Open – less than a week before the Masters at Augusta.

Rory McIlroy has done a Masters u-turn and opted to play the week before Augusta after all – with a charity trip to Haiti put on the long finger.

Rory McIlroy will fine tune his Masters plan in Texas next week – after just making the cut at the Houston Open by one shot.

Rose of Tralee contestants and escorts from 2010 have banded together to help keep the memory of Texas Rose Adrienne Hussey thriving since her tragic death from a cerebral aneurysm in 2011.

3D sonar imaging has provided a new look into the shipwreck of the USS Hatteras, a Union ship which was sunk off the coast of Galveston, Texas during the US Civil War. Only two men died the day the ship sank - Irishmen William Healy and John Cleary.

Staff at Guinness’ brewery in Dublin were shocked to find a snake in a delivery container that arrived from Texas.

The Irish Mexican Alliance will host an event in El Paso, TX on April 28 to raise funds for the Amor por Juarez organization.

Margaret Devaney tightly gripped a tiny pen-knife her 12-year-old brother, John, gave her as a farewell present just before she sat into the pony cart that took her to Ballisodare railway station 100 years ago for a train to the Titanic.

The 2010 Texas Rose has died suddenly in a Dublin hospital less than six months after she moved to Ireland.