Ardagh Glass is poised to float on the New York Stock Exchange and, if the move goes to plan, it will transform its main shareholder, Paul Coulson, from one of Ireland’s richest men into the realms of mega wealthy, writes Kyran Fitzgerald

A senior British army officer in Northern Ireland 31 years ago decided that the civil rights march that led to the Bloody Sunday killings should be stopped “at all costs“, it emerged today.

The British army’s wall of snipers on Bloody Sunday did not spot a single gunman during the main shootings, the Saville Inquiry was told today.