The husband of Caitríona Lucas has said it is “a great honour” that one of her paintings has been featured on two new stamps issued in recognition of the Irish Coast Guard.

President Michael D Higgins yesterday joined Britain’s Prince Charles and Turkish president Tayyip Erdogan at commemorations to mark the 100th anniversary of the First World War battle on the Gallipoli peninsula.

THE 100th anniversary of the publication of James Joyce’s short-story collection, Dubliners, is marked this year by an iPad app dedicated to its famous coda, ‘The Dead’.