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Another glance at the activities 100 years ago this week of key figures in the upcoming Rising, as recorded by authorities at the time, or recalled later by the participants.

Details of what was being done this week 100 years ago by those planning the Rising, and how it was observed by British authorities in Ireland.

San Francisco has surprisingly few must-see sights, but it is the filler that makes this city such a snug place to visit, writes Geoff Power.    

WOODHILL HOUSE, and its wooded grounds a couple of miles from Cork city at Tivoli, is steeped in Irish and local Munster mercantile, artistic and political history, over several centuries.

Select new house developments are just underway in Cork city in locations like Church Road, Blackrock, and Feirm Bawn in Wilton, each for a handful of new homes - but there’s also sites for one-offs, if you know where to look.

A new TV documentary on Brendan Behan attempts to separate the man from the myth, writes Richard Fitzpatrick

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Broadcaster and sports pundit George Hook has said Ireland is a country that is unfair and impoverished ahead of his address at the annual Michael Collins commemoration this weekend.

FROM a 15th century book of hours to photographs of the Co Clare RIC, the Fonsie Mealy rare book and collectors’ sale, in Dublin next Tuesday, goes on view today.

Portraits of some of Ireland’s most revered historical figures are among tens of thousands of artefacts opened to the world in a newly expanded digital collection.

Lady Gregory’s letter and various pictures and medals will be up for auction.

The transport minister has told a men-only lunch at an Irish society event in the United States that courage is needed to make the future equal for all including gay and straight and male and female.

DRAG artist Panti Bliss’s speech on homophobia, in the Abbey Theatre on February 2, is one of the greats of Irish politics, up there with Robert Emmet’s parting words. For anyone who has followed Bliss’s (real name Rory O’Neill) career, this is not surprising.

Gregory McGonigle got his reign as Dublin ladies senior football team manager off to the perfect start with a comfortable victory over Kerry in Division 1 of the Tesco Homegrown Ladies National Football League today.

STANDING up, as she’s about to leave, Louise Phillips, author of the just-named Irish Crime Novel of the Year The Doll’s House may have cried as she told me about the dark place where her novels originate.

POLITICS is rock ’n’ roll for the ugly, and the shucksters, bounders and bumpkins who hang about in Leinster House are a motley crew.

A brave buyer prepared for a challenge will love Carrig House, Tommy Barker reports

A priceless stained-glass window commemorating teenage IRA volunteer Kevin Barry has been given a new home at his alma mater.

Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore has ordered Irish diplomats across the globe to get the message out that Ireland has drawn a line under its banking crisis.

ANTI-QUEEN protests planned by republican and anti-war groups will be allowed to go ahead, gardaí have confirmed.

A “SUFFOCATING” security operation in Dublin city centre for the visit of the British monarch has disabled potential flashpoints with republicans.

FOUR men protesting over the economic crisis took in the sites of Ireland’s patriot past yesterday as they ended a 160km march at the Dáil.

Four men protesting over the economic crisis took in the sites of Ireland’s patriot past today as they ended a 160km march at the Dáil.

A NEW access lane puts 1, Wood Hill Villas on a more manageable footing – and that’s to its benefit, because builders will surely need to get to it.

Dublin traders unveiled a new map today pinpointing the best of the capital’s hidden gems and homegrown hotspots.

THE Teachers’ Union of Ireland (TUI) has unanimously voted against the public service pay agreement and threatened potential strike action from September in response to the latest Cabinet cutbacks.

THE rousing cover picture of Michael Collins, fists clenched and in full flight, sets the tone of Great Irish Heroes, a lively collection of stories of men and women whose names have reverberated through the pages of history.

Two men who were found guilty by the Special Criminal Court today of having bomb-making equipment at a Dublin apartment last year were the last people to be convicted at the Green Street courthouse in Dublin.

THE American Richard Rodgers — of Rodgers and Hammerstein fame — wrote over 900 songs for 40 Broadway musicals but he could never have imagined any of his compositions being chorused at a wintry GAA pitch in Carrick-in-Shannon.

The 100th birthday of a Dublin school founded by Easter Rising rebel Padraic Pearse will be commemorated in two new stamps.

AS the ‘No-No’ tribes disperse to their hugely diverse comfort zones after the nine-day booze-up to which they were electorally entitled, those of us who are committed to the literally essential strategy of Ireland in Europe must regroup.

CORK’S city manager has been asked to intervene in a standoff which has forced the closure of a famous lane for more than a month.

MOBILE phone mast protestors were criticised yesterday for targeting worshippers at a Church of Ireland Sunday service.

WHEN Bertie Ahern wants to spur the masses, he turns to the Iron Lady rather than the Republican men of steel.

A QUARTER of Dublin’s iconic St Stephen’s Green will close to the public in 2009 to allow construction work on a new metro system for Dublin.

THEY haven’t got a pitch, they haven’t got a club house, dammit they haven’t even got a shed they can call their own, no meeting-place of any description.

GERALD MORGAN is right to remind us that the “heroic fortitude of the common soldier in the service of his country” is worth commemorating. (Irish Examiner letters, March 13).

MR JUSTICE Kevin O’Higgins concluded that Portmarnock golf club “is not a discriminating club under the terms of the Equal Status Act 2000, because it falls within an exception provided for in that act”.

WHY, oh why, do journalists always focus on the negative, the bad, the tragic side of things? On St Patrick’s Day, when the whole world wants to be Irish, Colette Sheridan thinks St Patrick would be turning in his grave.

Veteran republican Joe Cahill will rank alongside some of the greatest names in Irish nationalism, Sinn Féin’s Martin McGuinness claimed today.

I WAS amazed by two events connected with the Emmet anniversary commemorations. The most bizarre event took place as we as we stood outside St Catherine’s Church in Thomas Street in Dublin last Saturday at the same time that Robert Emmet was executed 200 years before.