THE 100th anniversary of the publication of James Joyce’s short-story collection, Dubliners, is marked this year by an iPad app dedicated to its famous coda, ‘The Dead’.

SOME 22,000 public patients who have been on waiting lists for more than three months will be treated either at home or abroad this year, according to National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF) bosses.

ROBERT HOWARD was a loner. He’d been in trouble since his early teens. He was born in 1944, one of eight children reared in this tiny, country cottage at The Swan in Co Laois.

Eleven members and three generations of a Cavan family made their way to Dublin today to collect their €2.5m Lotto jackpot.

Families of two young teenagers killed when a 100lb bomb exploded almost 35 years ago in a small Cavan town today demanded a public inquiry.

YESTERDAY Margaret Sheridan underwent surgery in a Dublin hospital, but tomorrow she will endeavour to be in Nowlan Park to cheer on her beloved Seneschalstown in the All-Ireland senior ladies football club championship final.

MIXED enterprise farmer Tony Maher celebrated his 51st birthday yesterday.