IT’S a pity that neither President Barack Obama nor Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II will be on southern Irish soil until next month.

The 2011 Census is set to take place on Sunday April 10.

Two million forms have been printed for Census 2011, which is taking place on the night of April 10.

WHERE were your great- or even great-great-grandparents on the night of March 31, 1901?

One of the country’s best known historical writers is among group of experts who will decide how to honour the million people who died in the Great Famine.