This week Dan MacCarthy looks at Kay Summersby's life on Inishbeg

Donald Trump’s habit of appointing military men — James Mattis, HR McMaster, and John Kelly are in situ; Mike Flynn has left — may dilute civilian oversight, says Peter Apps. 

The degree was an opportunity for Cowen to make a speech. A lengthy speech. Fifty minutes, writes Terry Prone

DESPITE narrowing but still fluctuating margins, FBI leaks on incomplete investigations into Hillary Clinton’s unwise, possibly illegal, email policy while she was Barack Obama’s secretary of state and a 24/7 conveyor belt of scandal and relentless greed; despite Donald Trump’s racism, boorishness, ignorance, misogyny, contempt for truth and his country’s constitution, today America must choose one of those insecure, frightened people to be their president for the rest of this decade and beyond.

A mother who has been refused the Carers’ Allowance after being forced to give up her job to look after her seriously ill daughter has pleaded with those forming the next government to adopt a more compassionate view of such cases.

Anthony Beevor has written another history of another decisive WWII battle — the last throw of the dice for the Nazis, the Battle of the Bulge. Richard Fitzpatrick enjoyed it.

Richard Nixon had a great influence and his impact is still apparent in much of US public life, says Stanley Kutler.

The Normandy beach landings were deferred on the say-so of the Blacksod lighthouse keeper, and victory was assured, says Dan McCarthy

Please find a small selection of images which capture the life and times of America's youngest ever president, a man who in living changed the world and whose death left an indelible mark on all those who lived through it.

Mitt Romney’s foreign policy vacillation typifies how the Republican Party has struggled to keep up with developments, says Leslie H Gelb

SO, the Taoiseach believes voters will not want to be “bribed” into backing the Yes campaign in the EU fiscal compact referendum — sorry, Enda, but have you ever met the Irish people?

A GROWING concern that the eurozone debt crisis hasn’t been sufficiently dealt with plunged international stock markets into further freefall yesterday evening — with nearly £50 billion (€58bn) being wiped off the value of London-quoted shares and Dublin’s ISEQ hitting a two-year low, as Irish shares lost €1bn in value.

THERE she was in an ad for a chair.

DONEGAL’S Cllr Marion McDonald (FF) recently proposed that Viscount Bernard Montgomery should be commemorated in Donegal, his birthplace.

AS ONE great spectacle closed yesterday another moved inexorably towards its climax in November.

DWIGHT D EISENHOWER, John F Kennedy, Lyndon B Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford,Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George Bush Snr and Bill Clinton.

THE young priest's vestments were crumpled from his travel case and his uneven hem revealed runners wet and muddied from the Normandy shore.

A 113-year-old Dutch woman has become the oldest registered living person after the previous title holder died in Puerto Rico.