HIS father fought as a teenager with Tom Barry and the Flying Columns and was a contemporary of Michael Collins, while his mother defied her family to support the Volunteers.

RECENTLY I was on a short break in west Cork. As I have an interest in the war of independence and the actions that took place in the Third West Cork Brigade area, I took the opportunity to visit three historical sites.

THE Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) has insisted that its decision to attend today’s meeting of the British-Irish Inter-Parliamentary Body for the first time is not a U-turn on its boycott of the organisation.

THE house that provided secret succour to General Tom Barry and which was mentioned in his book Guerrilla Days in Ireland, is on the market this week with a guide price of €635,000.