Bryan Cranston is recalling the first time he saw the caskets lying in state and draped in American flags while on set for his latest film, writes Georgia Humphreys.

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Since reading Hillary Clinton’s memoir I’ve been giving a lot of thought to ‘difficult women’, writes Louise O’Neill.

Some long awaited series in there.

The High Court has blocked a bid by a former chief of staff of the Iraqi army to bring a private prosecution against Tony Blair over the Iraq War.

John Chilcot has said he does not believe Tony Blair was "straight with the nation" about his decisions in the run-up to the Iraq War.

“The novel, as a form, has moved into the slow lane.” Novelist and journalist Will Self, discussing his new novel, Phone, at Dublin’s International Literature festival, had some home truths for booklovers at Smock Alley Theatre.

The 22-year-old's visit to his family's native country fuelled concerns he was preparing for Monday's deadly assault under the guidance of hardened jihadists.

IN a curious twist of fate, the Taoiseach will be the flagbearer of the EU when he meets President Trump at the White House today. German Chancellor Angela Merkel was to have met the President yesterday but snow storms in the US have delayed that meeting until tomorrow.

The absurdity of the perceived threat posed by refugees and immigrants from ‘banned’ countries is about politics not US security, writes Tania Karas.            

Francis Fukuyama looks at how the leaking of bad information is being used by those who would like to have authoritarian power at their fingertips.

You might have spotted the USS Porter on your travels around Cobh this weekend.

However you want to classify them, Stars of the Lid are always interesting, writes Don O’Mahony

Donald Trump’s habit of peddling hype and fabrication emerged unabated in the first presidential debate while Hillary Clinton played it cautiously in her statements, though not without error. They both denied making statements that they are on the record as saying.

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump defended his decision to label US president Barack Obama the “founder” of Islamic State (IS).

Richard N Haass says the Chilcot Report should be widely read because the Iraq War was costly enough without people learning the wrong lessons from it

In an update to her weekly column, Victoria White, argues that we can never come to the beginning of the end of atrocities such as Nice if we don't understand that Bastille Day doesn't mean the same thing to many Arabs as it does to the French.

Former British prime minister, Tony Blair, has expressed “regret” that he did not challenge intelligence about Saddam Hussein’s supposed weapons of mass destruction.

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In his long-awaited report, John Chilcot has delivered a restrained yet devastating critique of former British prime minister Tony Blair’s decision to go to war in Iraq in 2003.

Families of some of the 179 Britons killed during the Iraq war have been reacting after the long-awaited report into the conflict was published on Wednesday.

The long-awaited Chilcot inquiry report into the Iraq war will be boycotted by relatives of some of the 179 Britons killed in the conflict, who fear it will be a “whitewash”.

TM DEVINE’s new book is an excellent guide to how Scottish nationalism has revived to become a threat to the integrity of the United Kingdom. 

US vice-president Joe Biden has said his career is in better shape than his golf game, as he kept his promise to play a round in Ireland.

British Labour MP Jo Cox died yesterday after being shot and stabbed in the street outside her constituency advice surgery.

Iraqi forces have launched an operation to retake the Islamic State-held city of Fallujah.

Military intervention is needed to ensure Islamic State is “crushed”, says former British prime minister, Tony Blair.

After an attack such as that seen in Belgium, what follows is rather predictable. Trump and right-wing parties will likely reap the rewards, writes Peter Apps

"And I really don't know where I'll end up tonight but I do know where I wind up is where I'm meant to be."