Alan O’Riordan talks to musician Ronan Guilfoyle about a piece he wrote to commemorate his grandfather — a 1916 veteran who was in Collins’s ‘squad’

Recently, as the anniversary of Michael Collins’s death approached, a man decided to end his life in a fashion too horrific to detail here. The action was shocking but the outcome has become a commonplace in modern Ireland; suicide is now running at over 50% pre-crash levels.

FRIENDS and co-stars were last night mourning the death of Kathy Staff, the actress who played Nora Batty in Last of the Summer Wine.

AN inquest in the Isle of Man has heard how a young Irishman died while motorcycling on the runway of an airfield on the island last June.

Jimmy White may be enjoying his best season for more than a decade but so too is the Whirlwind’s opening opponent at the Embassy World Championship in Sheffield today.