Des Breen reads an account of 156 Irish UN troops who battled impossible odds in the Congo, only for their courage to be airbrushed from history.

One week after Britain’s vote to leave the European Union, British prime minister David Cameron and members of the royal family were standing side-by-side with France’s president to celebrate their historic alliance at the centenary of the deadliest battle of World War I.

 

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Fr Francis Gleeson’s bravery as a WW1 chaplain is renowned, says James Fogarty

The events sparked by the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife outside a Sarajevo delicatessen 100 years ago this morning have had a greater impact on our lives than any other event in the last century — even the one we will mark in 2016.

In their contribution, Minister Deenihan and Secretary of State Theresa Villiers MP pointed out (Irish Examiner, March 31) that the newly unveiled Cross of Sacrifice in Glasnevin Cemetery was “no better setting for a memorial to remember the tens of thousands of Irishmen who made the ultimate sacrifice during World Wars.”

An Army Bomb Disposal Team has made safe a live WWI-era grenade today.

DID Steven Spielberg really intend ET (1982) to be read as a Christ-like figure?

Thirty weapons ranging from shotguns to starting pistols have been handed in during the first 10 days of a firearms amnesty announced by the Department of Justice earlier this month.

GERALD MORGAN is right to remind us that the “heroic fortitude of the common soldier in the service of his country” is worth commemorating. (Irish Examiner letters, March 13).

A report into the courts martial and execution of 26 Irish soldiers by the British army during World War One shows the men were treated unjustly.

Irish logistics company Walsh Western International (WWI) has invested €2.5 million in a new premises in Coventry to cater for a 40% increase in business volumes in the first two quarters of 2004.

Irish logistics company Walsh Western International has invested €2.5m in a new premises in Coventry in England to cater for a 40% business volume growth in the first two quarters of 2004.

Electrical retailer Dixons has awarded a multi-million euro contract to logistics company Walsh Western International (WWI) to handle the warehousing and logistics for their €107m business in Ireland.

Dixons Stores Group Ireland, a division of the £6.5bn (€9.6bn) Dixons Group, announced today, that it has awarded a multi-million euro contract to Irish logistics company Walsh Western International (WWI) to handle the warehousing and reverse logistics for its €107m business in Ireland.

Irish logistics company Walsh Western International (WWI) have opened a new €15m plant in Tilburg, Holland, to cater for a major expansion of business in Europe.

Transport and logistics company Walsh Western International (WWI) has announced plans to invest up to €1m in a new transportation service that will combat freight crime.

Transport company Walsh Western Ireland (WWI) has announced the creation of 40 new jobs at its Limerick call centre.