THESE days, flat hedgehogs are all too often seen on west Cork roads and, no doubt, on roads all over Ireland.

A new visitor centre has just opened in Flanders commemorating the 30,000 Irish soldiers who died in the First World War.

Soldiers who fell during the First World War are being honoured collectively in name for the first time with a memorial wall in the Cork cemetery where they lie.

A return to Ireland by Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II is looking increasingly likely after the success of President Michael D Higgins’ visit to London.

An Irish Government TD has said he wore a poppy to the Dáil today to show that remembering the Irish war dead is no longer off limits.

The unionist Lord Mayor of Belfast joined his Dublin counterpart today in paying tribute together to the shared sacrifice of Ireland's war dead.

It is 100 years since a little known music hall act wrote the song that became the marching anthem of the First World War, outlasting it to become one of the most popular songs of the 20th century, writes David Robson

A MEMORIAL to 131 soldiers from a Cork town, who died in WWI, is to be unveiled on Sunday by Taoiseach Bertie Ahern.

IT was October 1914, two months after the outbreak of the Great War.

THE sounds of muskets crackling and sabers clashing echoed around a historic fort as colourful groups engaged in military re-enactments as part of National Heritage Week.

AS an example of rewriting history, David Roberts’ letter (Irish Examiner, Nov 17) is a prime example.

FOR the first time in almost 40 years, I visited Charles Fort on Saturday, September 13, and was very much surprised to see not only the well run military displays and reenactments but a truly beautiful and well preserved fort.