The American POWs sent secret coded messages to Washington with news of a Soviet atrocity: in 1943 they saw rows of corpses in an advanced state of decay in the Katyn forest, on the western edge of Russia, proof that the killers could not have been the Nazis who had only recently occupied the area.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt helped America through its Great Depression with friendly ‘fireside’ chats.

I can’t address last night’s State of the Nation address by the Taoiseach, because it was broadcast too late for this column.

US PRESIDENT Barack Obama awarded himself a B plus for his first 11 months in office in an interview with talk show queen Oprah Winfrey.

OVER the past two years the Bank of Ireland has presided over the single greatest destruction of wealth in the short history of this State.

THAT was great stuff by your columnist Fergus Finlay (October 14). This is the kind of inspiring journalism that newspaper readers are crying out for.

Less than two months before the start of a fraud and racketeering trial, US prosecutors have brought new insider trading claims against former newspaper tycoon Conrad Black.