A controversial sitcom set around the Great Famine will not make it to TV screens, it was confirmed yesterday.

THE water charges unveiled yesterday will do nothing to conserve water or reflect ability to pay and may not work to fix our creaking system. The plan was hatched by a Government which is, as the Right to Water Campaign said this week, “on the run”.

Rocks from Mayo, accounted for in the chaos following 9/11, lie at the core of a Famine memorial in New York, just a stone’s throw from Ground Zero, says Bette Browne.

Archaeologists have identified for the first time the full extent of a convicts’ mass grave on what was once a notorious concentration camp-style prison in Cork harbour.

With reference to Shane Minogue’s letter (Apr 17), I think it is high time that mis-statements regarding export of “food” during the Great Famine were challenged.

A preferred book café here in Singapore is just a medium stroll from our apartment.

Kicking the can down the road sounds like an amusing solution to Ireland’s problems, but the reality is no joke.

The national Famine commemoration yesterday was a poignant reminder of our history.

THE British family history website Ancestry.co.uk today launches a collection of 19th century historical Irish records, to help Irish family historians and the estimated 80 million people worldwide of Irish descent to explore their heritage.

Tough new laws to stop aggressive begging, which came into force today, are in the public interest, the Government has claimed.

Irish people and emigrants abroad should observe a minute’s silence later this month for victims of the Famine, it was claimed today.

The Government must designate an annual day of commemoration to remember the victims of the Famine, it was claimed today.

The Celtic Tiger economy is the best thing that has ever happened to Ireland, leading author and broadcaster Frank Delaney claimed today.

A WORLDWIDE commitment to halve global hunger levels will only be realised if political support is urgently stepped up, a UN meeting in Dublin heard yesterday.

The Jeanie Johnston, a nostalgic replica of a 19th century “famine ship” making its way slowly from Ireland to America, has docked at the Portuguese island of Madeira, her wave-battered sailors reported.