A manuscript of enormous research value has been returned to Dublin 700 years after its creation there and four centuries after first leaving the country.

Bernard Meehan’s new history of the Book of Kells is a reminder of what an amazing creation it really is, writes Peter Murray

A POSTMISTRESS at Lusk Post Office who was working on the morning of an armed raid told Dublin City Coroner’s Court yesterday that she feared for her life when she realised what was happening.

A CHANCE discovery by a bulldozer driver has unearthed the most significant medieval manuscript found in Ireland in two centuries.