Happy Gilmore,” released in February 1996, became one of the most beloved comedies of the ’90s and codified the hockey-style swing as a mainstay on golf courses.

​Maeve Kyle, Ireland’s first female track and field Olympian at the 1956 Melbourne Games, has died at 96. Born in Kilkenny in 1928 but spending most of her life in Ballymena where she founded ...