It was quite literally all about the ones and the zeros as an auctioneer’s hammer fell at €11,000 for a signed first edition of a book by the father of modern technology — bought for University College Cork.

Wales: The oldest McDonald’s employee in Europe is celebrating his 90th birthday with a party at the restaurant where he works, saying he has no plans to retire just yet.

When the esteemed Dr James Barry died in 1865, an examination of his body revealed that he was a woman, Margaret Bulkley, who had disguised herself to practise medicine, says Robert Hume

Back when the Ely Banquet for Barnardos 2014 was first announced earlier this year, it was still a historical throwback.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny has arrived in the UK for a two-day visit saying it was important for the European Union to include a strong Britain.

WE have been here before.

Michael Moynihan asked Donal Lenihan and Charlie Mulqueen for the history of the Six Nations in 20 objects.

The Liar’s Daughter

THE British are peculiar. Their desire to conquer the world has been matched only by their obsession with bringing bits of it home with them.

British heavy metal legends Iron Maiden are releasing their own beer.

Engines of War

Murder at Shandy Hall: The Coachford poisoning case

SET in a woodland, the old Parochial House upriver of Cork city at Inniscarra, is at Canon’s Cross – or is it cannon’s cross?

THE rescue photos were heartwarming. Children smiling. Grandparents hugging them. Parents looking tired but relieved: we’re out of the war zone and home safe.

LIMERICK’S St Mary’s Cathedral, which dates to 1168, yesterday unveiled a new visitor display tracing its historic connections down the centuries.

OUR health service could badly do with a 21st century Florence Nightingale.