We take a trip down memory lane and check out what happened on this day in years gone by by looking back at some Irish Examiner front pages and highlighting other events which went down in history across the world.

As July signals the start of the ritual marching season for our Orange brethren, in readiness for their huge Twelfth of July rallies, on the other side of the historic border which is convulsing this chaotic Brexit business, ye will please forgive me, for strolling down Memory Lane.

I begin by minting a new word, to try and match the crazy month that is upon us.

The fuss and furore these winter days over the increasingly likely prospect of a hard border around the neck of this little island fascinates me lately.

Fears have been raised there aren’t enough armed garda units in border areas to combat dissident republicans if they were to attack security posts, likely to be established in the event of a hard Brexit.

A number of points made in your recent editorial (Aug 12) struck me as demonstrating a clear lack of understanding of certain issues in the Six Counties.

So, I’m back at the keyboard and looking forward to another Championship season both on and off the field.

The North should hold a referendum on joining the Republic as early as 2016, Sinn Féin’s Martin McGuinness has said.

Sinn Féin will bring its strengthened team of representatives to Stormont tomorrow for the first time since the party’s General Election gains in the Republic.

THE chief executive of the Gaelic Players Association has revealed some of his members are “genuinely struggling to put food on the table” due to the economic downturn.

THE hackney car was always driven by a GAA supporter and friend who was combining business with pleasure on the biggest day of our Ulster year when all roads led across the Border to Clones and the football final.

THE Saville report vindicates the victims of Bloody Sunday.

A QUICK glance at the agenda for the GAA’s annual congress, which opens in the Sliabh Donard Hotel in Newcastle, Co Down this evening, indicates that it’s going to be a very busy weekend for everyone in attendance.

Sinn Féin will crank up the pressure on the North's power-sharing government if there is no deal to devolve policing and justice powers, a senior republican signalled tonight.

AN Irish Press reporter was watching a police water cannon vehicle moving into position. He had never seen one in action before.

AS a GAA member I must protest at the presence of Stormont minister Edwin Poots at the recent Dr McKenna Cup football match between Donegal and Down in Newry.

Sinn Féin today said it would welcome parties from the Republic contesting northern politics.

DR MARTIN MANSERGH TD refers to a private communication from Brian Girvin as proof that Elizabeth Bowen’s secret reports to the British government about Ireland during the war were not spy reports (Letters, September 26).

Sinn Féin will begin a process today which could lead republicans to a once unthinkable position – supporting the North’s police service.

AN INTRIGUING aspect of the talks in St Andrews is that there has been no mention of resolving partition.

A SENIOR GAA official in the North was adamant yesterday that a controversial Maze Prison hunger strike commemoration in Casement Park in Belfast was not political.

Up to 5,000 students from the Republic, enrolled in third level colleges in the North will be denied payment of course fees paid next term.

THE docking of Britain’s largest warship in Dublin is a shameful violation of Irish neutrality, the Dáil heard yesterday.

The docking of Britain’s largest warship in Dublin is a shameful violation of Irish neutrality, the Dáil heard today.

ROBIN BURY of the Reform Movement failed to answer the question I asked as to what would have resulted if the Rising had not taken place (Irish Examiner letters, March 13).

THE construction of a multi-purpose sports stadium in Belfast is still favoured by Ulster Council secretary Danny Murphy.

Sinn Féin House of Commons allowances worth almost half a million pounds are a democratic right, a senior member of the party insisted today.

Northern Ireland MPs will be invited to sit on a special committee in the Dáil dealing with issues affecting them, Sinn Féin said today.

YOUR columnist Noel Whelan’s dismissive attitude in relation to Northern representation in the Dáil underlines a curious reality that is emerging from among prominent members of the political establishment in the 26-Counties in recent times (Irish Examiner, October 6).

IRELAND cannot much longer afford the routine denigration of the Green and the Orange. Do we really want to humiliate Orangemen (or Sinn Féin for that matter) by insisting that their leaders condemn themselves and their supporters in front of the world?

Health ministers on both sides of the border today faced fresh calls for an all-Ireland approach to tackle rising suicide levels.

THE decision of the British government to stand down what are referred to as ‘home’ battalions as part of a normalisation process in the Six Counties will only serve to swell the ranks of the loyalist paramilitaries.

WHEN it came, ultimately, the statement from the IRA was unequivocal in its intent. It has ended its armed campaign and ordered all units to dump arms.

THE Cork County GAA Board decision not to allow a vote on the opening up of Croke Park was correct and in accordance with rule and protocol.

THE McCartney murder was a terrible crime carried out by members of the republican movement.

ONE of the first books on Irish neutrality was a 1969 collection of essays in RTÉ’s Thomas Davis lecture series. It was published in time to exploit the 25th anniversary of the end of World War II.

Two healthcare workers were targeted in a weekend racial attack in Northern Ireland, police revealed today.

THE North’s politicians yesterday embarked on a frantic effort to get people out to vote, as polling stations opened for the European Parliament elections.

IT is difficult to know where to start in terms of correcting the frequent, obvious and repeated errors in Paul O’Brien’s article on the Castlerea Four (Irish Examiner, May 12).

A limit should be placed on the size of political donations to Northern Ireland parties, the Electoral Commission is due to hear today.

The transfer of policing and justice powers from Westminster to Stormont is essential to securing republican involvement in policing in Northern Ireland, a senior Sinn Féin figure said today.

RECENT utterances by Minister for Justice Michael McDowell prompts me to write. The IRA ceasefire in 1994 created a window of opportunity for achieving a lasting solution of the situation in the Six Counties.

RYLE DWYER launched an astonishing attack on the GAA in his recent article (Irish Examiner, January 31).

The youth wing of the Sinn Féin party today launched a campaign to secure cross-border voting rights in this year’s election for the President of Ireland.

Polling got under way today for Northern Ireland’s crucial Assembly election, with parties insisting that voting was following traditional patterns.