Irish people who lost their lives in the First and Second World Wars will be commemorated at a national ceremony this afternoon.

ENGLAND: A monument chronicling 124 years of England’s footballing hurt by listing every defeat suffered by the team between 1874 and 1998 has sold at auction for £425,000 (€600,000).

The Christmas TV commercials are an integral part of the festive season. Kelly O’Brien and Barbara Scully give their opposing views on their heartstring-tugging sentimentality.

British supermarket Sainsbury’s has recreated one of the most famous moments from the First World War in its 2014 Christmas advert to honour the Armed Forces — but now the supermarket giant is planning to demolish a war memorial in Bristol to build a new store.

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This might be it.

A runaway veteran who disappeared from his care home only to turn up 12 hours later at a D-Day commemoration ceremony in Normandy is already planning to return next year - and Brittany Ferries has promised to bring him for free.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny will join British prime minister on a visit to a First World War memorial in Belgium next month.

Almost 100 years after they were lost to their families and their country, half of them never accorded the dignity of a funeral, 1,100 Irish men and women who lost their lives in the first world war were remembered in a ceremony which will ensure their names will never be lost.

One of the last surviving Irish soldiers granted a pardon after fighting against Nazi Germany has laid a wreath to remember his comrades.

Touching tributes continued to be paid to Drummer Lee Rigby in Woolwich today, as the community stood united in condemning the soldier’s brutal death.

More than 200 people braved freezing temperatures to attend the funeral of a man they didn't know in England today.

A teenager arrested on Remembrance Sunday on suspicion of posting a picture of a burning poppy on Facebook is being questioned by British police.

Big Ben is to chime non-stop for three minutes to ring in the Olympic Games.

The unionist Lord Mayor of Belfast joined his Dublin counterpart today in paying tribute together to the shared sacrifice of Ireland's war dead.

PROTESTERS at the Occupy Cork camp have agreed to move their tents to allow Armistice Day commemorations to take place tomorrow.

In the North, vandals have damaged a memorial in North Belfast to three Scottish soldiers murdered early on in the Troubles by the IRA.

At the centre of the News of the World hacking scandal stands its owner Rupert Murdoch. These allegations have rocked his Newscorp empire to its core as politicians debate the wisdom of allowing one man so much power, writes John Daly

Former News of the World editor Andy Coulson was set to be arrested over alleged phone hacking today as David Cameron faced the press for the first time since the News of the World was closed.

David Cameron called a press conference today as his former communications chief faced arrest over the phone hacking scandal that led to the closure of the News of the World.

Former News of the World editor Andy Coulson has been told he will be arrested this morning, according to reports.

THE former editor of the News of the World, Andy Coulson, is to be arrested this morning. The Guardian reported that he had been told to attend a central London police station for questioning over claims he knew about phone hacking.

A RAFT of companies are pulling advertising from the News of the World in the wake of phone-hacking allegations.

The News of the World was sacrificed tonight after a series of increasingly damaging allegations left its reputation in tatters.

ANTHONY WOODS (June 3) claims there is no need for a Presidential election as we already have the “creme de la creme” in office. Mr Woods also stated that “our beloved President should be offered the job for life”.

Scuffles have broken out between protestors and gardaí in Dublin's O'Connell street, where former British Prime Minister Tony Blair is signing copies of his memoir.

Tony Blair’s memoirs went on sale today, laying bare the divisions at the top of the Labour Party and focusing attention on his relationship with “maddening” Gordon Brown.

A woman branded “Britain’s most disgusting person” by war heroes after urinating on a war memorial is due back in court today after fleeing her sentencing hearing last week.

TONY Blair is donating all the profits from his forthcoming memoirs to a new sports centre for injured troops, it emerged.

Defence Minister Willie O'Dea is attending a ceremony marking Remembrance Sunday in Limerick this morning.

Radiohead may not make another album as their last LP nearly “killed” them.

Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke said today the band may not make another album, as they could not bear to go through the “creative hoo-ha” again.

THE last “Tommy” Harry Patch was buried yesterday as thousands paid tribute to the last voice of a generation of sacrifice.

Thousands of British people lined the streets today to watch the funeral procession of the last veteran of the First World War trenches.

Former soldiers from Ireland and the North stood shoulder to shoulder today to honour servicemen killed in the First and Second World Wars.

The National Day of Commemoration — on the first Sunday of July each year to remember those Irish who fell during both world wars and on service with the United Nations — is most welcome.

Bookies are taking bets on who will be Christmas number one – but banning the X-Factor winner from contention.

Remembrance Day ceremonies were today held across Northern Ireland for soldiers killed in two world wars and other conflicts around the globe including the Troubles.

I SHARE the frustration and indignation at Ireland’s Call being referred to as the national anthem when the Irish rugby team play abroad.

Customs officials in Zimbabwe have impounded thousands of red paper poppies sent from Britain for ceremonies commemorating the end of the First World War.

Aidan O’Brien has had his hands on the Racing Post Trophy four times in the last eight years and must fancy putting the prize back on the mantelpiece again tomorrow with Septimus.

THE participation of the Naval Service flagship, LE Eithne, and the training ship Asgard II in the international fleet review by Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II to mark the bicentenary of the Battle of Trafalgar is to be regretted — but not unexpected.

Dozens of Ireland’s World War II veterans turned out to greet Princess Anne tonight on her last official engagement in the country.

IRISH war veterans stood to remember fallen comrades yesterday as they marked the 60th anniversary of their sacrifice.