A new sculpture to be installed in a Cork harbourside town has the potential to become one of the most photographed in Ireland — because of its design.

Many Cork and Irish lives were lost in the Battle of France, writes Damian Shiels

In his long-awaited report, John Chilcot has delivered a restrained yet devastating critique of former British prime minister Tony Blair’s decision to go to war in Iraq in 2003.

The centenary of the Battle of the Somme recalls the futility of war, writes Ryle Dwyer

The British Army GAA team that survived a proposal to eject them from the London JFC will play under the name Naomh Pádraig and not The Irish Guards banner that was their original billing.

GAA bosses have quashed the controversial proposal to throw a British army team from the London Junior Football Championship.

Good afternoon. Here’s all the news you need to know this lunchtime.

A D-Day veteran living in Ireland is to be bestowed with France’s highest honour on his 100th birthday.

A D-Day veteran living in Ireland is to be bestowed with France’s highest honour on his 100th birthday.

London GAA chairman Noel O’Sullivan has described their decision to allow the British Army compete in next year’s local championships as a “landmark move”.

Here’s a briefing on some of the stories and issues highlighted on irishexaminer.com today.

Des O’Sullivan on the sale of a unique collection of more than 450 lots from a retired military man.

An Irish wolfhound taken from Dublin to the trenches is one of the forgotten heroes of the First World War, explains Robert Hume.

SEWN together with as much care as this landmark State visit, it was joint admiration of a fan made from handcrafted Youghal lace which saw queen Elizabeth and President Higgins relax into laughter after the spectacle of the welcome to Windsor Castle.

The ceremonial red coat presented by President Michael D Higgins to the mascot of the Irish Guards returned a gesture of friendship made by the regiment more than 40 years ago.

The sister of a woman killed in the 1974 Birmingham pub bombings has called for the arrest of Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness ahead of tonight’s state banquet.

The ceremonial red coat presented by President Michael D Higgins to the canine mascot of the Irish Guards returned a gesture of friendship made by the regiment more than 40 years ago.

Former president Mary Robinson said “the Irish story will be well told” during this week’s state visit to Britain by President Michael D Higgins, and “it will be a positive one”.

As President Michael D Higgins prepares for his first state visit to Britain, Conor Power takes a look at Windsor Castle, the preferred home of Queen Elizabeth, and finds there’s a lot more to see in the town.

The world’s cities turned green for the day as tens of thousands of Irish expats, new and old, gathered to celebrate St Patrick’s Day.

Adam, Ahern, Black, Bolger, Brennan, Breslin — the names read like poetry under the Menin Gate. Molloy, Moran, Morgen, Mulvihill, Murphy, Murray — all buried in unknown graves in Flanders soil.

JACK DOYLE, boxer, singer, actor, lover, drinker, was born a hundred years ago this Saturday, Aug 31, in Cobh, Co Cork. His life was preposterous — he knocked out Clarke Gable in a fight over actress Carole Lombard — but it ended, like that of so many prizefighters, in the gutter.

Gun salutes will sound across London today to mark the birth of the royal baby as the armed forces join in the celebrations.

The Duchess of Cambridge told a soldier she would like her baby to be a boy when she attended a St Patrick’s Day parade at a military barracks yesterday.

A dissident republican death plot had targeted the family of an Irishman serving in the British army, and not the soldier himself, it has emerged.

Marking 70 years of marital bliss, Frank and Mary Denvir shared a romantic kiss.

Pealing church bells, artillery salutes and crowds cheering “God save the queen” greeted Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II on the last of four days of diamond jubilee celebrations honouring her 60 years on the throne.

It’s enough to make the toes of every serving garda curl. The first member of the force has been exposed as a bigamist, forger and debtor, and was sacked for beating a prisoner.

Garda Jim Herlihy details the extraordinary life and times of Patrick Joseph ‘PJ’ Kerrigan, an ex-RIC member, soldier in two armies, and bigamist, who became the first Civic Guard of the Irish Free State

In the UK, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are to be immortalised as a pair of Barbie dolls, Mattel have said.

THEY have been used to solve the mystery of her sinking, debunk theories about why it happened and make a Hollywood blockbuster.

Booker prize nominee Sebastian Barry tells Caroline O’Doherty how grateful he is that the protagonist told her story and guided him as he wrote it down.

The bride’s choice of ivory and white satin bridal gown did not disappoint, writes Rachel Marie Walsh

The royal wedding page boys were dressed in the Regency-style red tunic of a Foot Guards officer.

Prince William arrived at Westminster Abbey to marry Kate Middleton, with best man Prince Harry at his side.

TAKING part in ceremonial duties for the royal wedding will be a family affair for the Irish Guards, its members said yesterday.

WE even have it in song: “On far foreign shores, from Dunkirk to Belgrade, lie the soldiers and chiefs of the Irish Brigade.”

The funeral of Gerry Fitt, the founding former leader of Northern Ireland’s Social Democratic and Labour Party is being held in London tomorrow.

A Dublin-born soldier killed while serving with the British army in Iraq was posthumously honoured tonight for his role in the war.

President Mary McAleese laid a wreath today to commemorate Irish soldiers who served and died in foreign wars and UN peacekeeping missions.

IRISH war veterans stood to remember fallen comrades yesterday as they marked the 60th anniversary of their sacrifice.

The mother of a Dublin-born soldier who died while serving in Iraq with the British army's Irish Guards used a St Patrick’s Day visit to the regiment in South Armagh by Princess Anne to condemn the war.

The Dublin-born British soldier who died in combat in Iraq is due to be buried today.

THE sole Irish casualty of the war in Iraq will be laid to rest today.