‘God of wildlife presenters’ turns 90.

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Northern Ireland Attorney General, John Larkin, recently had a pop at the Easter Rising — the usual stuff about it failing the ‘just war’ theory test and having no democratic mandate.

The Government is to invest nearly €4m stabilising three architecturally-stunning old buildings in Cork harbour which are planned to eventually become home to high-tech spinoff companies created by Irish Maritime Energy Research Cluster and the UCC-run Beaufort research centre.

Some of the weirder stories from around the world

Had the Ottoman empire survived World War I and come to dominate western powers we would be living in a very different, far less tolerant world, suggests Andrew Melsom.

Journalist and historian, Kevin O’Brien, suggests that almost a hundred years after his death, Thomas Kent is making us look into our past in new ways as the nation prepares to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the event which sparked the birth of the Irish Republic.

The A14 and A11 are dual carriageways now, designed to speed motorists across the Cambridgeshire fens.

All the horror, heroism and heartbreak of the Lusitania’s sinking started to unfold on the dreary quays of Queenstown some six hours after the liner was torpedoed, writes Ray Ryan

A series of largely unseen photographs visualise the impact football had on the morale of troops from Allied forces during the First World War.

Searchers hunting for the missing Malaysia Airlines plane are racing to a patch of the southern Indian Ocean to determine whether a few brief sounds picked up by underwater equipment came from the jet’s black boxes.

There are plans to make final diving preparations today to raise the anchors of the Aud, the arms ship scuttled in Cork Harbour on Easter Saturday 1916.

The Royal Navy has detained seven suspected pirates in the Indian Ocean, Britain's Ministry of Defence said today.

British forces have freed an Italian cargo ship attacked by pirates off Somalia.

We Are Besieged

DIVERS are to salvage the two anchors on the famous gunrunning ship The Aud and present them to the people of Fenit, Co Kerry and Cobh, Co Cork.

Irish efforts to evacuate citizens from Libya have been fiercely criticised for a second day after a teacher escaped a frightening 26-hour wait at Tripoli airport.

Shackleton and Crean were just the tip of the iceberg, so to speak, of Irish Antarctic explorers, says Richard Fitzpatrick

A BRITISH Navy officer was arrested in Cork yesterday and charged with assaulting a female garda.

The first of three Royal Navy warships began rescuing Britons stranded by the air chaos today.

YOU’ll know it when your ship comes in, at Fort Villas. This elevated residential ridge above Cobh spans all of the maritime traffic and sailing activity in Cork harbour, and with light and views in abundance.

A retired Naval engineer has shed dramatic new light on the Tuskar Rock tragedy.

Iran hit back at claims by the captured British Navy crew of constant psychological pressure during their 13 days of detention by releasing more video clips showing them playing chess and watching television.

An Iranian diplomat freed two months after being abducted in Iraq accused the CIA of torturing him during his detention, Iranian state television reported today.

Egypt’s foreign minister said Iran’s decision to release 15 British Navy personnel may herald a “new spirit” between the Islamic republic and the West, a Kuwaiti newspaper reported today.

Iran said tonight it hoped to resolve the seized British Navy personnel crisis using diplomacy and without putting the captives on trial.

WHEN the national broadcasting station — in the days when there was only one national broadcasting station — sent out an invitation for families to compete in a quiz programme, I entered our family in the contest.

THE docking of Britain’s largest warship in Dublin is a shameful violation of Irish neutrality, the Dáil heard yesterday.

The docking of Britain’s largest warship in Dublin is a shameful violation of Irish neutrality, the Dáil heard today.

TOMORROW (June 29), a British Navy warship, HMS Ocean, is due to arrive in Dublin on what is termed a ‘courtesy visit’.

THREE crewmembers of the crippled Canadian submarine off the Co Mayo coastline were airlifted to Sligo General Hospital last night.

IRAN last night ratcheted up the pressure in the growing diplomatic crisis over the detention of the eight British Navy sailors, parading them blindfolded on state-run television.

Rose Martin finds a Victorian gem in Cobh which has been pragmatically restored for 21st century family living.

HURRICANE ISABEL screamed ashore in North Carolina yesterday as furious winds and torrential rains forced evacuations throughout the US mid-Atlantic region, the cancellation of nearly 1,000 flights and shut down the federal government in Washington.

ALLEGED Real IRA mastermind Michael McKevitt wanted Iraq to help fund his new terror offensive, a court heard yesterday.

THE names of three Royal Navy officers who died when two British helicopters collided in the Gulf at the weekend were released yesterday.

A cargo ship that hit the sunken vessel Tricolor in the English Channel was tonight heading for port under its own power.

A British warship has intercepted an Iraqi tanker after it was discovered to be smuggling oil in an effort to dodge UN sanctions.

Britain's Royal Navy has been urged to join the hunt for a ship carrying child slaves which has disappeared off the coast of west Africa.