The epic battle for the bridge at Arnhem, as depicted in the blockbuster 'A Bridge Too Far', saw the Allies aim to end the war by Christmas 1944, but failed as a huge airborne assault force failed to take the last bridge across the Rhine. In an extract from his latest book 'A Bloody Week', Dan Harvey tells the story of one of the hundreds of brave men from Ireland who gave their all to the Allied campaign

By the time you read this article, London’s 2019 senior football championship season may be over.

For the generations born in Ireland since the end of the Second World War it is understandably difficult for some of them to envisage the state of public opinion on the issue of Irish neutrality during WWII.

Fish and chips, sirloin steaks and piña colada cocktails were the order of the day at a relaxed dinner attended by US President Donald Trump at his Doonbeg resort on Thursday night.

So that’s nearly Thursday wrapped up. Here’s some of the stories we published on irishexaminer.com today which we hope will help you make sense of it all this evening.

It is hard to imagine that a remote, windswept part of Co Mayo was the setting for an event 75 years ago that changed the course of history.

US president Donald Trump has claimed the Brexit crisis which is putting tens of thousands of Irish jobs at risk is going to be “very, very good” for Ireland, predicting it is “going to work out” for this country.

Almost certainly unnoticed by holidaymakers making their way to and from England’s cross-Channel ferry ports and Eurotunnel stations is a modest 1914-18 war memorial on Folkestone’s seafront promenade.

President Michael D Higgins has lashed out at Donald Trump’s “regressive and pernicious” record on climate change as he arrives in Ireland today.

While Ireland was officially neutral in the Second World War, thousands of Irishmen fought against fascism by serving in the British, American, and Canadian armies, including on Normandy’s beaches, says Sean O’Riordan

Donald Trump’s own landing on the Normandy beaches to commemorate D-Day will be launched from the links in Doonbeg, Co Clare.

US president Donald Trump has said he is looking forward to his trip to Ireland next week.

He will use his golf resort in nearby Doonbeg in west Co Clare as a base over the three days.

Donald Trump is to visit Ireland in June, according to a number of senior sources.

President Trump will be a guest of The Queen during the visit from June 3-5, and will also have discussions with the British Prime Minister in Downing Street.

Conor Murray insists Munster will be in good hands with Tyler Bleyendaal at out-half against Saracens in this month’s European semi-final should Joey Carbery fail to prove his fitness in time.

Taoiseach says US President Donald Trump could visit Ireland as early as June this year when in Europe for D-Day commemorations, writes Juno McEnroe in Chicago.

It’s hard to recall a more open Cheltenham Gold Cup than the one that will unfold before our eyes at 3.30pm this afternoon. Of the 16 set to go to post in the Magners-sponsored Cheltenham Festival highlight, only four can be dismissed with real confidence – it really is that open.

Black ’47, out now - Revenge thriller set during the Irish Famine. Hugo Weaving, Barry Keoghan and Stephen Rea star.

Stepping out of Central Station, Belfast, at about 7pm on the Saturday before last, I saw, at the end of the street, a murmuration of starlings wheeling about the sky.

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

Cork ran riot at times against Tipp but Waterford will question how much Tipp really tested them, writes Anthony Daly.

Here are the top three films you don’t want to miss this week, writes Declan Burke.

TODAY marks the 73rd anniversary of D-Day, a seminal event in modern European and world history.

France's troubled wartime past is taking centre stage in the presidential race as centrist Emmanuel Macron visits a Nazi massacre site and Marine Le Pen's far-right party suffers a new blow over alleged Holocaust denial.

The Force Awakens director J.J. Abrams is producing a new supernatural World War II film set during the invasion of Normandy.

Britain's most important double agent of the Second World War almost had his cover blown because his homesick wife could not stand living in England, according to secret files made public for the first time.

After two years and 10 months, 93-year-old Ernie Andrus has made it across America.

Bear Grylls has dipped into his grandfather’s Nazi-busting past for his latest novel, says Hannah Stephenson

Yesterday was billed as D-Day. The day it could all go right or all go wrong, writes Daniel McConnell

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

Historian and ‘Irish Examiner’ contributor T Ryle Dwyer fondly remembers his mother Margaret, who had a long and eventful life

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

 

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BRITAIN: Hollywood star Kate Winslet has revealed that she will be celebrating her 40th birthday in an unusual fashion — by spending the day in a bikini.

One of the last surviving Irish D-Day veterans has dedicated the award of France’s highest honour to the lives of all those who took part in the landings.

One of the last surviving Irish D-Day veterans has dedicated the award of France’s highest honour to the lives of all those who took part in the landings.

The wife of a war veteran who slipped away from his care home to attend last year’s 70th anniversary D-Day events in France has died, just days after his death.

Your spoiler free guide to tonight's TV.

Dairygold’s €117m investment in its Mallow and Mitchelstown sites will give the north Cork co-op the processing capacity it needs for next year’s abolition of EU milk quota restrictions, said the company’s chief executive, Jim Woulfe.

A century-old document has revealed how the official weather readings for the capital are blank during the 1916 Rising.

Hail, rain, or snow climate change is on the way, so says a RTÉ series covering our fascinating relationship with the weather, says Jonathan deBurca Butler.

"Anyone would think I'd defeated Hitler on my own."