TODAY’S re-enactment of the funeral of Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa in Glasnevin Cemetry is the first of 40 historic commemorations across the country in the State’s centenary programme for the 2016 celebration of 1916.

Anti-racism organisations in Ireland are naturally concerned for the welfare of Walli Ullah, an asylum seeker seriously injured in Wednesday’s riot at Cloverhill prison in Dublin.

The August bank holiday has historically been one of the most dangerous weekends on Irish roads. There have been 12 deaths and 27 people seriously injured during August bank holiday weekends since 2010. That is a grim statistic.

The crisis in Calais is getting worse not just by the day but by the hour as thousands of migrants go to ever more desperate lengths to try to get into the UK.

REMARKS made by Conor Skehan, chairman of the Housing Agency and the Government’s lead adviser on housing policy, may come back to haunt him.

The late, great film actor Richard Harris must surely be smiling from above at the thought of his native city becoming a Hollywood hub.

Team Ireland’s remarkable achievement at the Special Olympics World Summer Games is testament not just to the athletes’ talents and hard work but also to the indomitable human spirit within each one of us to overcome adversity — even in the most straitened circumstances.

The admission by Permanent TSB that 22 of its mortgage customers lost their homes due to the bank’s failings is shocking but, sadly, not surprising.

A law that recognises an adopted person’s right to his or her identity has been a long time coming. The Adoption Information and Tracing Bill will allow adoptees a right to their birth certificates.

It is hard to imagine that things could get any worse for the Government when it comes to its handling of Irish Water.