As a new play and V&A exhibition celebrating Alexander McQueen open in London, Rachel Marie Walsh looks at the life and style of the iconic designer.

A €1.3m museum, dedicated to Michael Collins and two other West Cork patriots, is to open in Clonakilty at the end of June.

ENGLAND AND WALES: Bran, Sandor and Khaleesi may not be commonly heard in the classroom yet, but they are all names of characters from hit TV series Game Of Thrones given to babies last year.

The Queen of England and the Duke of Edinburgh will meet Pope Francis at the Vatican today.

A man who stabbed two innocent bystanders during the infamous Swedish House Mafia concerts in the Phoenix Park has been jailed for four years.

A young man who stabbed two innocent bystanders during the infamous Swedish House Mafia concerts in the Phoenix Park has been jailed for four years.

A youth who smashed a glass bottle over a concert-goer at a Swedish House Mafia gig has been sentenced to five years in prison with the final two years suspended.

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More than €1m is being pumped into urban renewal projects in Clonakilty to renovate the town park and provide a state-of-the-art museum dedicated to the life of Michael Collins.

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The State has been given eight weeks to get directions from the DPP in the case of a 22-year-old man accused of stabbing a tourist at a Swedish House Mafia concert in the Phoenix Park in Dublin in July

A 22-year-old man accused of stabbing an Isle of Man tourist at a Swedish House Mafia concert in the Phoenix Park in Dublin has been granted bail.

A 22-year-old man accused of stabbing an Isle of Man tourist at a Swedish House Mafia concert in the Phoenix Park in Dublin is due back in court today.

A 22-year-old man accused of stabbing a tourist at a Swedish House Mafia concert in the Phoenix Park in Dublin last Saturday was further remanded in custody today.

On the face of it, swapping Capello for Hodgson and telling the latter to wing it after a few weeks’ preparation might not seem the smartest route to Euro glory.

The explanation for a shooting rampage that terrorised a black neighbourhood in the US state of Oklahoma and left three people dead may lie in a killing that took place more than two years ago, it has been revealed.

Two men have appeared in court on accusations they were behind a series of shootings in Oklahoma that left three people dead.

Gardaí are erecting barriers across Dublin city centre this afternoon ahead of the Queen of England's visit next week.

The Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams has expressed hope that the Queen of England's visit here will strengthen ties between Ireland and England.

THE visit of the Queen of England has been the subject of considerable political and media focus. However, the occasion of this visit merits a much fuller discussion about how Ireland and Britain, in the wake of the recent seismic political changes, can build a better, more beneficial relationship for the peoples of both our islands.

THE dissident republican group the Real IRA has threatened to kill more police officers and declared its opposition to the Queen of England’s first visit to this country next month.

A dissident republican group today threatened to kill police officers and opposed the Queen’s first visit to Ireland.

Three people have been arrested after ammunition was seized in a pub ordered to remove a 40ft banner barring the Queen of England during her state visit to Ireland.

A protest is taking place in Dublin this afternoon over the Queen of England's visit here in May.

A senior organising official is playing down the Queen of England's non-attendance at the Commonwealth Games.

SPECULATION that Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II will visit Ireland next year was dismissed yesterday by Tourism Minister John O’Donoghue.

A QUINTET of All-Ireland winning stars, Donal Óg Cusack, Wayne Sherlock, Brian Murphy, Tom Kenny and Timmy McCarthy return to the Cork team for Sunday's crucial Allianz NHL clash with Wexford at Wexford Park.

US soldier Lynndie England, whose poses in photos of detainee abuse at Baghdad’s Abu Ghraib prison made her the face of the scandal, was convicted last night by a military jury on six out of seven counts.

US soldier Lynndie England, whose poses in photos of detainee abuse at Baghdad’s Abu Ghraib prison made her the face of the scandal, was convicted tonight by a military jury on six out of seven counts.

Two former guards convicted in the Abu Ghraib prison scandal testified at US Army Pfc. Lynndie England’s military trial that she was impressionable and under the sway of her soldier boyfriend, Private Charles Graner, labelled the ringleader of detainee abuse by the prosecution.

TO anyone of a rational disposition, the sight of old or middle-aged men in bowler hats and orange sashes marching to commemorate a battle fought over 300 years ago seems absurd.

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Pfc. Lynndie England took responsibility for the smiling, thumbs-up poses she struck for photographs taken at Abu Ghraib prison camp, which made her the face of the prisoner abuse scandal.

Lynndie England will plead guilty to abusing Iraqi detainees in Abu Ghraib prison, her lawyer said today, about a year after photos of her sexually humiliating inmates made her the face of a scandal that damaged the credibility of the United States military.

Lawyers for Private Lynndie England attempted today to throw out statements she made when first questioned about Iraqi prisoner abuse, including that guards were just “joking around, having some fun”.

PRIVATE Lynndie England, the American soldier seen in some of the most notorious photos with naked Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison, has had a baby boy.

Private Lynndie England, the American soldier seen in some of the most notorious photos with naked Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison, is a new mother.

US OFFICIALS yesterday decided after a review by a military panel that four terror suspects held at Guantanamo are properly classified as “enemy combatants” and will not be freed.

Lynndie England was often sloppy at her paperwork job at Abu Ghraib prison because of illicit, late-night visits to the part of the facility where detainees were abused, her supervisor said today.

Prosecutors have portrayed US soldier Lynndie England as an out-of-control servicewoman who mocked Iraqi prisoners in photos “just for fun”.

EARLIER this year, a petite, mop-topped soldier became a central figure in the Abu Ghraib prison scandal that shocked the world when she turned up in numerous photographs, smiling and giving the thumbs-up in the presence of naked, hooded Iraqi detainees.

IT is hard to avoid the perception that US army reservist Lynndie England is being used as a scapegoat in the Iraqi prison abuse scandal.