St Helen’s Rugby and Cricket Ground catches the eye as you drive down the coastal stretch that is Swansea’s Mumbles Road. A relic of times past, it is watched over by four archaic floodlights and its hotchpotch of stands and terraces sit gloriously at odds with each other like a bad set of teeth.

Ryle Dwyer says Bitter Freedom is, a thoughtful and balanced history that exposes the need to be wary about what actually happened around 1916 before we engage in an unquestioning orgy of centenary celebrations. 

The High Court has refused an application by the Irish Times for injunctions restraining the publishers of the Times of London using the words ‘The Times Irish Edition’ in promoting a new digital Irish edition of the UK newspaper.

The Times of London reported yesterday that there are more young British men fighting as jihadists in the Middle East than there are Muslims in the British army.

YOU probably didn’t know it had a name, but I’m sure you’ve come across the Cupertino Effect.

YOU don’t usually think of the Times of London as a source of subversive material, but in July 1967 it carried a most unusual full-page advertisement that exposed the absurdity of establishment thinking on drugs, then and now.

Four New York Times journalists, including a Briton, have been reported missing while covering the fighting in Libya.

AN Iranian woman who was sentenced to death by stoning for adultery is now facing a new punishment of 99 lashes because a British newspaper ran a picture of an unveiled woman mistakenly identified as her, the woman’s son said yesterday.

The Young Ireland Rebellion and Limerick

ANDRE AGASSI’S autobiography contains an admission that he used crystal meth in 1997 and lied to tennis authorities when he failed a drug test — a result that was thrown out after he said he “unwittingly” took the substance.

THE Rathkeale willow tree stump which people claim projects an image of Our Lady is making global headlines.

Wall Street stocks jumped today, pushing up the Dow Jones industrials by more than 100 points as a report that two companies are trying to buy Alcoa Inc. stoked investors’ hopes for a pickup in takeover activity.

Billionaire Ken Thomson, Canada’s richest person whose worldwide business empire once included the Canadian newspaper chain founded by his father, has died at age 82, the Globe and Mail reported today.

DETECTIVES are continuing the hunt for the mastermind behind the attacks and the bombers’ support network.

“THE biggest load of sh*te I’ve ever heard;” “The usual suspects” - two of the responses from observers following the launch of the Campaign Against the EU Constitution in Dublin this week.

FORMER Republic of Ireland striker Tony Cascarino claimed yesterday that he regularly received injections of unknown drugs to enhance his performance while playing for French club Olympique Marseille in the 1990s.