India: When a northern Indian state announced a few hundred job openings for low-level office workers who run errands and make tea, they were staggered by the response — 2.3m people applied.

The man who lent his name to Cork city’s railway station, Thomas Kent, was aside from Robert Casement, the only 1916 leader executed outside of Dublin, says Richard Fitzpatrick

It won’t come as a really big surprise that the latest poll (published in The Sunday Times) showed that the ‘yes’ campaign in the Scottish referendum is now in the lead for the very first time, though by a very narrow margin.

SHONA Pitman grew up in a rough patch of a $2 trillion dollar island. Reared in Nicholson Park, a neighbourhood in Jersey once so dangerous the school buses took the long way round it, she was acutely aware she did not belong to the island’s elite.

The salaries of the lord mayors in Cork City and Dublin are a matter of ongoing public concern and affect rate payers and those using city services.

IT IS difficult to imagine now the intensity of the controversy that was stirred by the Treaty oath, or the fact that history could have ignored for so long that it was Michael Collins who essentially proposed that oath.

Former US president Bill Clinton has hailed the political significance of next week’s meeting between the Queen of England and Sinn Féin’s Martin McGuinness.

Martin McGuinness will shake hands with Queen Elizabeth in Belfast next week after the Sinn Féin president, Gerry Adams, declared it was “the right thing to do”.

The Oath is Dead and Gone

In the first of three articles on the history of the presidency, Ryle Dwyer highlights the early importance of the office. It was not the partition but the head of state issue that led to the Civil War.

A NUMBER of protests passed off without incident just over 100 metres from the English Market during Queen Elizabeth’s visit to Cork.

ROYAL bride Kate curtsied to the queen at Westminster Abbey following her marriage to Prince William.

A MOVE by the Killarney tourism industry to invite the queen to visit the well-known beauty spot is being opposed by hardline republicans.

A court hearing in the North has begun over whether Derry City Council can change the official name of the town from Londonderry. Derry's nationalists have long-sought a change reviving the original Irish meaning of ‘Oak Grove’, but unionists are opposed to it.

I WISH to congratulate you on your anniversary review of the Battle of the Somme (Irish Examiner, June 27-29).

Republicans banished abroad by the IRA are free to return but must first contact their communities, Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams said today.

THE legal process of buying a house will be speeded-up and made cheaper when a new proposal to computerise the system being proposed today comes on stream.

PATRICK MAGEE was the IRA’s most experienced explosives expert.

The Old Bailey murder trial of Ian Huntley today heard details of the last movements of Soham schoolgirls Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman.

The murder trial of Ian Huntley, accused of killing Soham schoolgirls Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman, was due to begin today.

A tribe of indigenous Maori today announced that they have accepted a multi-million dollar settlement and a formal New Zealand government apology nearly 140 years after being stripped of its land after being falsely accused of murdering a missionary.

The long-awaited appeal by Stephen Downing is being heard by three judges in London.