SATURDAY

Get On Up (12A), Tate Taylor’s biopic of ‘the Godfather of Soul’, James Brown, is no ordinary rags-to-riches tale. 

PETE Seeger was born in Patterson, New York, on May 3, 1919, and was 94 when he passed away last week in a hospital in New York City.

NELSON MANDELA will be remembered as the person who, more than any other, brought an end to apartheid, the heartless policy of “separate development” in which white, black, and South Asian South Africans were obliged to live apart.

Former president Mary Robinson was a special guest at a sellout event at the West Cork Literary Festival in Bantry last night. She was interviewed by Bantry-born journalist, Alison O’Connor.

No one is quite sure why they’re called the Fighting Irish, but it seems like everyone has an explanation.

In his letter (Apr 14)l John Riordan advances some ideas to which I might — as an octogenarian — be permitted to offer an alternative.

A US news analyst has been fired by National Public Radio after saying that he gets nervous when he sees people in Islamic clothes on a plane.

SHADES of the US South’s racist past came creeping back this week just as the South could be poised to play a pivotal role in electing the nation’s first black president.

The question is: now that we no longer have the sound of gunfire ringing in our ears, can we see any more clearly how a period of history that began with 400 people gathering in Derry’s Duke Street ended with 3,500 lost lives?

The British government was today warned its plans for 42-day detention for terror suspects risk alienating Muslim communities.

Elements of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) hark back to the days of unionist rule and hope to undermine Northern Ireland's power-sharing government, Sinn Fein claimed today.

Hundreds of mourners will today pay their final respects to one of the towering figures of the North's peace process.

Renowned Northern Ireland human rights campaigner Monsignor Denis Faul died today after a long battle with cancer.

A new book on Austin Currie’s cross-border political career will set the record straight on key political events of the time, it was claimed today.

THE IRA has confirmed it will release the statement setting out peace pledges that it gave to the British and Irish Governments last month.

The IRA has confirmed it will release the statement setting out peace pledges that it gave to the Irish and British governments last month.

The IRA confirmed tonight it would release the statement setting out peace pledges it gave to the British and Irish Government’s last month.