The eighth annual commemoration to veterans and victims of World War 2, organised by the Russian School in Cork, took place in Cork yesterday. 

Brad Pitt is currently in the news for reasons that you'll be aware of and have no bearing on the world of movies but he does have a new promo out for an upcoming film co-starring Marion Cotillard.

For the first time, an Irish woman will participate next month in Miss Pin Up International, a pageant that celebrates curvy woman, writes Louise Mc Carthy

British, French, and German leaders and bureaucrats realised after World War II that only an economically stable ‘United States’ of Europe would guarantee peace, says Kyran Fitzgerald.

WHEN were your formative years? When was the time that reinforced habits in you that you don’t think twice about now? 

Kid friendly horror stuff and some really, really old comedy nostalgia are big this week, thanks to Goosebumps and Dad's Army

The Immigrant Council of Ireland (ICI) has asked the Taoiseach to extend the Irish Naval Service’s humanitarian mission in the Mediterranean into the winter months.

When England was being blitzed during World War 2, one of the main factors in maintaining the morale of the population was the strong, confident and decisive leadership of Winston Churchill.

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Survivors of the US’s atomic bombing of Nagasaki, during World War 2, gathered to mark its 70th anniversary yesterday.

Good afternoon. Here’s all the news you need to know this lunchtime.

Peaky Blinders will be back with a third season a little later in 2015, and it seems one of its biggest stars will be on board for a good while yet.

The image conjured by Daniel Teegan (25 June), of emaciated Holocaust survivors arriving in post-WW2 Palestine – their only available refuge, into which they had to be smuggled in the face of severe British-imposed entry restrictions – as representatives of “European colonialism” would be laughable if it did not embrace so much tragedy.

We're taking a look at the films in Irish cinemas this week, including Big Game with Sam Jackson and Age of Adaline

When I was a teenager, most of my musical tastes were different from those of my parents, but there was one act we all loved. That was Tommy Makem and Liam Clancy.

Re the article “Ministers to be quizzed on UK ‘airspace deal’” (Irish Examiner, February 13),

Criticism of the Greece government’s hard line on debt is based on the idea that Greece expects other euro-zone countries to underwrite their decades of unrestrained profligacy. This is simplistic.

A small group of British code-breakers, including Alan Turing, try to solve the problem of the Enigma machine during World War 2.

Ireland During the Second World War

In response to Mary Murphy, of the European Studies specialist group, the threat of UKip is a democratic reaction to a federal Europe.

THIS weekend’s Festival of Speed at Goodwood is one of the highlights of the motoring year for petrolheads the world over, with an alluring mix of some of the finest racing machines ever to take to the track and appearances by many of the men and women who drove them.

Most of the country's new Councillors are now elected, and a battle is underway between Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil to be the largest party on local authorities.

Sweeping fuchsia landscapes filmed by the military in the Congo in World War 2 have made Richard Mosse famous in the art world.

The head of Europe's biggest trade union Reiner Hoffmann has said a one-off levy on the richest people in Europe could yield over €120bn.

Ray Monk Vintage, £12.99 paperback.

On a visit to Ireland this week Ben-Dror Yemini, a former political adviser turned Israeli journalist, agreed to a questions and answers session with the Irish Examiner on Israeli/Arab relations and events in the the wider middle east.

Corkman Adrian McCarthy wrote about the brutality of being a prisoner in Japan in WW2, says Carl Dixon

A device which was found in Co Cork this afternoon was a viable grenade, it has been confirmed.

The shorts and documentary strands again produced the main highlights of the Corona Cork Film Festival, says Carl Dixon

Six machine guns and a large quantity of ammunition from World War 2 have been discovered in Co Donegal.

The fiery culture clash between returning emigrant John Wayne and the Irish locals resonates 60 years on, says Cleo Murphy.

BLACKOUT by Robert Swindells (Random House; €7.10). The beginning of World War 2 hasn’t proved interesting for youngsters Tom, Mary, Gary and Dil who live in the small Welsh town of Golfodd.

ROMAN soldiers in full battle gear will march on an historic city former jail at the weekend as part of a new living-history military show.

A week of national mourning has been declared in Poland after the country's President died in a plane crash.

OUR football correspondent LIAM MACKEY is back in top form and full of energy. He casts his eye over your comments and gives his own critical analysis of the goings on throughout the world of football. You may agree with him or then again you may not.

STUDENTS of a higher diploma in television production at the Ring Gaeltacht have just finished shooting five documentaries for Irish television, while applications are now invited for the next course.

UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan is expected to discuss the war in Iraq when he delivers a lecture today.

ARCHBISHOP of Dublin Diarmuid Martin yesterday challenged political, trade union and business leaders to show how we can help bridge the rich-poor gap in our society.

A 30-year-old man was offered €10,000 to plant a bomb in Limerick city, a trial has heard.