A CLOSE friend’s warning to Michael Collins not to go on that ill-fated visit to West Cork, and a lack of bitterness in ex-taoiseach Sean Lemass following the death of his brother in the Civil War — these are just some of the insights provided in a new series of interviews relating to the struggle for independence.

It looks like a case of back to the future for the National Lottery. While the Government’s coffers will benefit by over €400m from the sale of the National Lottery licence, half of it is to be ring-fenced for the construction of the National Children’s Hospital.

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

FOR much of the last century in Ireland, TB was the AIDS of its day, a scourge that ravaged the country.