Few people know the words of ‘Amhrán na bhFiann’, and fewer still know what they mean, so why, asks Ryle Dwyer, is playing ‘Ireland’s Call’ at rugby matches such a big deal?

A GOVERNMENT website aimed at promoting the work of the Coalition has been described as “propaganda” by Labour leader Eamon Gilmore.

The Government Information Service has built a new social networking-led internet platform based on Facebook and Twitter.

GIVEN the capacity of every mobile phone and computer to provide you with a diary application these days, you would think that diaries in the physical sense would be dying off.

TECHNOLOGY capable of managing information according to a precise geographical location is to be used in future planning for Irish schools.

CONFIDENTIAL Garda files show about 100 gardaí were put on duty for a surprise landing of General Idi Amin in Ireland.

“A CROWD of us were going along the Shepherd’s Bush Road when out of a lane came a chap with a donkey — just the sort of donkey and just the sort of cart they have at home,” Michael Collins recalled. “He came out quite suddenly and abruptly and we all cheered him. Nobody who has not been in exile will understand me, but I stand for that.”

MAPFLOW won a key role in a €41m European project with CVIS (Cooperative Vehicle-Infrastructure Systems).

USUALLY, good advice is that when you realise you’re in a hole, you should stop digging.