Former president Mary McAleese has encouraged women to "take up the mantle" and get involved in politics but said political parties still have a lot more to do to promote females.

The 1918 election saw women over the age of 30 extended the right for the first time, as well as men over the age of 21 who did not own property.

Today marks the centenary of the most important moment in the long, difficult journey that eventually led to the establishment of an independent, democratic Irish State.

The Conscription Crisis of 1918 had a more profound impact on the course of Irish history than the Easter Rising, writes Ryle Dwyer

A hundred years ago this month, the SS Kenmare was torpedoed, one of dozens of Irish civilian ships sunk by the Germans in WWI, says Jean Prendergast.