IN response to the World War II deserters campaign for “justice” as a former member of the PDF I would like to add this thought.

THE Greek philosopher Empedocles, who lived in Sicily, is said to have committed suicide by jumping into the volcano so no trace of his mortal remains would be found and people would think he was a god.

WHILE at university in Texas during the mid-1960s and early 1970s there was very little news about Ireland either on television or in the newspapers.

THE Allies and the Axis will gather in the German capital today to symbolically re-stage the fall of the Berlin Wall. The event20 years ago today was the beginning of the final chapter of the Second World War.

EARLIER this month I was asked to discuss Irish neutrality during the Second World War on Tom McGurk’s programme on 4FM.

Paul McCartney’s divorce lawyers will be watching carefully as insurance magnate John Charman today tries to claw back from his former wife more than half the biggest award in British legal history.

THE contemptible arrogance of the Government seems to know no bounds. Last year, Eamon Ó Cuív announced that the name of Dingle was being changed to An Daingean on all road signs, whether the people of Dingle liked it or not.