We take a trip down memory lane and check out what happened on this day in years gone by by looking back at some Irish Examiner front pages and highlighting other events which went down in history across the world.

Oscar-winning Hollywood icon Jeremy Irons has given his time free of charge to help a heritage centre produce a series of short films detailing harrowing, true stories of the Great Famine in Skibbereen, Co Cork.

The film classification office has expressed concern about cinemas presenting 15A-rated films at ‘parent and toddler’ screenings.

Tributes have been paid to sports journalist and broadcaster Pat McAuliffe, who died suddenly at the age of 60.

Tipperary County Board will participate in the GAA’s new corporate trustee entity after secretary Tim Floyd, affected by a club’s decision to default on a loan, saw his personal credit rating downgraded.

A whistleblower’s warning that documents revealing unacceptable levels of chemical exposure in the Air Corps were deliberately destroyed was sent to the Department of Defence over a year before it looked for the documents — and discovered they are missing.

All scheduled surgery has been cancelled at Cork University Hospital for two weeks over Christmas, despite there being almost 1,500 people on waiting lists.

Cork GAA chairman Ger Lane has given tacit approval to an independent company, featuring current and former inter-county players, which is set to begin a round of US fund-raising initiatives aimed at better resourcing the Cork senior footballers and hurlers.

Cork City’s European tour takes a turn with a difference over the next two weeks as the club heads for Cyprus’s very own little enclave of Spain.

The State spent almost €6.3m last year to settle legal actions taken against gardaí — the most in almost a decade, writes Noel Baker.

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From the ‘koffwey rooms’ of 16th century Constantinople, to the high street chains of today, coffee shops have always been about so much more than simply drinking coffee, explains Robert Hume

Kya deLongchamps encourages us to take a walk through a historical monument to man’s inhumanity to man — an architectural folly in West Waterford built in Famine times. 

The are those in quiet corners of the VW empire that have, for many years, referred to the company’s Seat brand as ‘The Spanish Patient.’ 

Health and safety reports dating back over 20 years that raised concerns over working conditions within the Air Corps may have been destroyed, the Taoiseach has been warned.

Minister says he is unaware of requests for direct contact, but texts suggest otherwise, writes Joe Leogue.

The decision by Henry Ford to expand into Ireland and the county of his ancestors would transform Cork’s industrial landscape forever, writes John Dolan.

Alannah Hopkin discusses the inspiration behind her new book of poems and songs about Cork City, On the Banks.

Ray Brady, former Ireland international, has passed away at the age of 79.

THIS decade of centenaries has underlined the power, wisdom and necessity of remembrance.

An ongoing and chronological look back at 1916 and what was "in the news" at the time - as reported in the Cork Examiner’s of 1916. 

Ian Kenneally examines the role and response of the press in Ireland around the time of the Easter Rising

Last year, when I met Bill O’Herlihy for the first and only time just days before his last broadcast anchoring the RTÉ football panel, he made one of those characteristic self-depreciating comments as we were finishing up.

We’ve never been closer to the past. The continuing proliferation of online searchable material is making available to us all an ocean of information and artefacts from our past. 

The devil is in the detail in the work of Macroom photographer Dennis Dinneen, whose images are being showcased in an exhibition at University College Cork.

While historians dissect the major events in the life of the nation, newspapers provide a living history — tracking and recording not just the headline news or the grand themes but also the everyday lives of ordinary people.

The new owners of one of Killarney’s oldest hotels plan to invest €500,000 in the five-star property over the next year-and-a-half.

90-year-old Eugie, believed to be Ireland's oldest cattle drover, has proven a hit with his views on drink, fags and work.

“If someone gets a little bit of limelight then we know someone else did a dirty job to make sure he did."

Householders could be asked to pay €188 per hour for an engineer from Irish Water.

Landmark Media, publishers of the Irish Examiner and Evening Echo as well as several regional newspapers, has announced approximately 50 job losses across its operations.

And so the great day has dawned.

The old school shut another one of its doors when Johnny Murphy passed away in February.

The High Court has ordered the winding up of Ely Property Group Ltd, the firm founded by businessman and developer Philip Marley.

What happens when your daughter enters a competition in your name without telling you?

More than 160 retired bankers are receiving pensions above €100,000 from bailed-out institutions.

A new book on the social history of the Great Blasket Island contains photographs taken by The Cork Examiner of the evacuation of the island almost 60 years ago.

The body of UCC student Caolan Mulrooney has been removed to Cork University Hospital where a post mortem examination will take place tomorrow.

A CHEMIST by training, a shovel engineer by vocation and a manager by desperation.”

HELP! Our truth-seeking Taoiseach is missing in the news jungle withonly a hugely expensive, full-time team of lackeys in his media monitoring unit to try and keep him abreast of what’s going on.

A DIRECTOR of Thomas Crosbie Holdings —which includes the Irish Examiner— is one of five key figures in the worlds of education, literature, business and philanthropy to be awarded honorary degrees at University College Cork next month.

The Examiner’s football correspondent Liam Mackey will be back in the New Year to argue the toss with you about the issues dominating soccer.

A MAN whose wife received baby promotional material after she had suffered a miscarriage yesterday criticised firms who target mums-to-be.