Kya deLongchamps meets the man who is opening a new chapter on his native Fermoy

Journalist and historian, Kevin O’Brien, suggests that almost a hundred years after his death, Thomas Kent is making us look into our past in new ways as the nation prepares to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the event which sparked the birth of the Irish Republic.

Egypt's highest court has asserted its ruling that led to the disbanding of parliament is final and binding, state television said, setting up a showdown with the new president.

THE Government has sought to reassure the public that the threat of a terrorist attack on Ireland remains low in the aftermath of yesterday's terrorist atrocity in central London.

New talks on the review of the Good Friday Agreement are expected to begin in Belfast next week.