STAND-UP comedian Neil Delamere has endured unusual heckles. A silent one stands out.

If there’s one issue that fires Irish passions, it’s how the media treats religion.

ISN’T it funny how often, a seemingly innocuous trigger like the distinctive scent of drying paint will, without warning, jerk you back to a certain time and place.

A Kenyan judge today jailed the grandson of an English baron for eight months for killing a black man on his vast estate, a significantly lower penalty than the maximum he faced of life in prison.

A descendant of Kenya’s first white settlers, whose freewheeling ways inspired the book “White Mischief”, has been charged with murder for the second time in 13 months in a case that has exposed deep resentment about British colonialism in East Africa.