Three Irish brothers who died fighting for the Canadians in World War Two are to be commemorated in a special ceremony in Belgium today and plans are being drawn up to build a monument to them in their birthplace in Co Cork.

Robert Hume tells of the eccentric MP for Athboy, Co. Meath – born 300 years ago this month – who thought he was a teapot, and was afraid his spout might break off.

JULIE Smolyansky starts every day with a glass of kefir, but then she would as her parents were one of the first people to bring the fermented dairy drink from their native Ukraine to the US in 1986.

The High Court has ruled today that Lord Magan, a member of the British House of Lords, is not entitled to a new tenancy of the €20m Castletown Cox mansion and 500-acre estate in Kilkenny which he had put in trust for the benefit of two of his three children, Edward Magan and Henrietta Black.

James Sugrue’s magnificent achievement in winning the 124th British Amateur Championship at Portmarnock has not gone unnoticed by a quartet of famous Irish professionals.

Thirty-six-year-old Edward Kelly was last seen on Ashton Quay walking towards College Green in the city at 9.30pm last Thursday.

The IDA has insisted regional job growth is a main priority but conceded it is "extraordinarily difficult" to persuade foreign firms to choose smaller towns as a base.

Tommy Barker An entire apartment development with 62 units in Cork city’s suburbs is for sale, as a single lot, being offered to investors with a guide price of €17.5m.

Three Cork brothers were killed during the Second World War fighting for the Royal Canadian Air Force, according to never-before-seen records unearthed by a noted author and historian.

Good historians and archaeologists don’t sit on their laurels.

Audrey's been sorting out Cork people for ages...

Four travellers who had been playing soccer for North Clare club, Sporting Ennistymon, have quit the sport following numerous incidences of racist abuse.

So there we are last Sunday, Tim and Finn and Greg and Russ and Edward and Ken and the bloke next to Ken (more of whom anon) and meself, bubbles floating past us amid the arctic tundra of Stratford, writes Enda McEvoy

Frank McGuinnness’s 1992 play is a remarkable feat of the imagination

With ink in his veins and who once famously described himself as “a chemist by training, a shovel engineer by vocation, and a manager by desperation” is the first person in the history of the Cork Person of the Year Awards to be inducted into a Hall of Fame.

Sydney Seaplanes, which has flown passengers including singer Ed Sheeran and Pippa Middleton and her husband James Matthews, said it was "deeply shocked" by the "tragic accident".

The gentlemen from Royston Vasey are returning to the small screen, writes Georgia Humphreys.

A legal action concerning the proposed sale of a mansion in Co. Kilkenny is not proceeding, the High Court has been told.

While men sentenced to death were more likely to be executed, Ian O’Donnell finds that women who found their sentences commuted were often sent to another institution such as a convent after they had served time in prison.

Arts editor Des O’Driscoll selects the must-see movies at the Cork Film Festival.

The rude health of the film industry in this country is underlined by the presence of 10 Irish offerings at the prestigious festival, writes Esther McCarthy

IS there such a thing as Second Season Syndrome, of some sort? Y’know, akin to the Second Album Syndrome, so beloved of pop geeks?

The police's failure to conduct an overarching examination of state collusion with a notorious loyalist murder gang in Northern Ireland was inconsistent with its human rights obligations, a judge has found.

As an uncompromising atheist, Roy Hattersley is an unlikely candidate to tell the story of the Catholic Church in Ireland and Britain, but he does so in masterly style, as Michael Duggan discovers 

Here's hoping she doesn't use her new vocab as a chat up line.

DURING his music lesson, a string broke on young Conor Russell’s violin. A minor setback, and a common experience of every student. What happened next set a life-long course for Russell who is now one of Ireland’s most established violinmakers, or luthiers, as they are known in the trade.

A man who lost an arm in a motorboat accident has called for the hero who saved his life to be honoured posthumously.

Legal colleagues and the sporting community in West Cork have paid tributes to the late PJ O’Driscoll, a West Cork-based solicitor who died suddenly on Sunday.

“Jepic, Jawsome, jituzu”.

We examine five of the main talking points from day three of the Cheltenham Festival.

Update 24/01/2017: Edward Canavan has been located safe and well.

A defence barrister asked for her client to be handed a sentence of no more than four years after he was convicted of stabbing a man to death during a row over a €100 debt.

The nineties was chock full of great Christmas movies and here's a list of the top 10 rated family-friendly Christmas movies of that decade. Did your favourites make the cut?

A legal action for damages by an elderly woman who died before her appeal against the dismissal of her case was decided cannot be continued for the benefit of her estate following her death, the Supreme Court has ruled.

Scarred by the horrors of World War One, army veteran Tom Sherbourne (Michael Fassbender) opts for self-exile as a lighthouse keeper as The Light Between Oceans (12A) begins. 

Yes, we are needy about wanting every American president to think of us but Hillary Clinton really did reference Ireland in her very first remarks at her campaign rally in Pittsburgh.

The Dublin City Marathon got underway today with 19,000 runners taking part.

Cathy Kelly’s new novel focuses on the negative reaction of children when their widowed father finds a new love Áilín Quinlan

A rescue puppy, found in the boot of a car in Scotland, is now the happy pet of the McLaughlin family in Malahide.

Tommy Barker on a country home that has engrossing tales to tell of changing political times and family ties.