Campaigners have demanded the reopening of a memorial park to Irish patriots which was closed just a year after tens of thousands of euro in public money was poured into upgrading it.

Sad to say, it’s a telling sign that when a statue to a Nazi collaborator goes up in Dublin, the least that happens is a splash of emulsion. Can you imagine if a statue to Marshal Pétain were erected in Paris? Or one to Quisling in Oslo? Or even of Mussolini in Italy?

CONTROVERSY surrounds a new statue of IRA chief of staff Sean Russell, erected in Dublin this week to replace an earlier monument damaged by those protesting against the republican’s links to the Nazis.

Conservationists have won the battle to save 16 Moore Street.

THE recent media hype about how the country should honour the men and women of Easter week has developed into a political board game. Let us mark the 90th anniversary by saving the Irish Alamo.

THE National Graves Association welcomes the findings of the Shaffrey architectural and historical report regarding 16 Moore Street in Dublin where the leaders of the 1916 rebellion made their last stand.

The last refuge of the leaders of the 1916 Easter Rising should be converted into an interpretative centre before it becomes a ruin, it was claimed tonight.

The Government breached the spirit of the Good Friday Agreement by allowing a proposed motorway route to cut through an historic battlefield, it was claimed today.

THERE is a total lack of respect and understanding of protocol regarding the use of the tricolor.

A plot containing the grave of IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands has been damaged in an overnight attack by vandals in a west Belfast cemetery.