An Irish wolfhound taken from Dublin to the trenches is one of the forgotten heroes of the First World War, explains Robert Hume.

Peter O’Connor, who was born in Wicklow in 1872, lived most of his life in Waterford.

GORDON Ramsay’s first New York restaurant has taken a battering from food critics.

IF anybody is still writing to him they might, in desperation, begin the letter this year thus: “Dear Santa, please bring us a government...”

THE £22 million Belfast heist raises the very apt question of whether it was civilian criminality, or paramilitary criminality.