We take a trip down memory lane and check out what happened on this day in years gone by by looking back at some Irish Examiner front pages and highlighting other events which went down in history across the world.

We take a trip down memory lane and check out what happened on this day in years gone by by looking back at some Irish Examiner front pages and highlighting other events which went down in history across the world.

US President Donald Trump’s state visit to the UK was offered with exceptional speed, from a position of weakness, writes Martin Farr.

In the midst of the power-sharing difficulties in the North, Ryle Dwyer argues that people should remember how such problems were initially resolved.

Good grief - what’s that awful smell? Did the wife leave the remnants of Friday’s fish out? Is it the smell of Brexit turning rancid? No, don’t panic; it’s just the rotting corpse of Saturday’s snore-draw at Anfield.

The centenary of the birth of Jack Lynch is clearly an event worth marking, not least because he embodied the centrist consensual approach to politics and economic management which on the whole has served the country pretty well.

By holding an early election May made a serious miscalculation, assuming that the popular support she had when she called the election would translate into votes, write Raj Persaud and Adrian Furnham.

‘You don’t win a strike,’ Paddy Cardiff used to say. ‘When it’s over, you try to recover from it’, writes, Fergus Finlay.

It’s been 40 years since Harold Wilson was the British prime minister, but his classic line about a week being a long time in politics keeps coming back on a, umm, weekly basis.

You might have thought that during his recent visit to the UK, US president Barack Obama was solely concerned with convincing British voters that their country would be far better off remaining in the European Union. However, other issues made it on to the agenda in the discussions between the US president and his UK counterpart, David Cameron.

George Osborne’s budget and Duncan Smith’s resignation need careful scrutiny for their implications for Ireland, writes Kyran Fitzgerald.

THE best political biographies do more than record their subjects’ lives.

Helen Mirren was crowned ‘Queen of Broadway’ as she won her first Tony award for her role as the monarch in The Audience.

A certain sportswear company once had a motivational slogan which simply said — ‘You Either Ran Today or You Didn’t’.

Nelson Mandela has been sanitised by hypocrites and apologists, who stood behind his jailers under apartheid.

The Last Diaries: A Blaze of Autumn Sunshine by Tony Benn

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Former British chancellor of the exchequer Nigel Lawson has called for the UK to leave the European Union, saying it is no longer in the country’s economic interest to remain in the bloc.

Dame Helen Mirren and Billie Piper will go head-to-head at this year’s Olivier Awards – while James McAvoy is in the running for Macbeth.

Alan Shatter disputed the accusation this week that the women of the Magdalene Laundries were slaves. Of course they were, writes Dan Buckley

Requesting a public inquiry into Desmond De Silva’s report, if granted, will open a can of worms that scares the British “Counter Insurgency elite”.

With its manageable size and €600,000 guide price, Tommy Barker finds a piece of West Cork that exudes charm and a lot of potential

The ousting of Gavin O’Reilly from INM initially appeared to be quite a coup for board chairman James Osborne, but it now seems the legal battles are only beginning, writes Kyran Fitzgerald

Some of the most popular lines we attribute to historical figures are in fact misquotes. Dan Buckley shares some of the classics

Dr Garret FitzGerald was caricatured as something between a whiz kid and an absent-minded professor.

David Miliband’s campaign to become Labour leader received a boost when he was backed by another party heavyweight.

NICKEY BRENNAN can still remember the feeling of walking into the unknown that accompanied the GAA’s first faltering steps into the digital age when they launched the association’s official website back in April of 1999.

Former British Labour leader Michael Foot has died, aged 96, Justice Secretary Jack Straw announced today.

THE author of England’s Greatest Spy: Eamon de Valera was interviewed by John Green on Radio Kerry during the week. The 470-page book, by John J Turi, will not be published until the last day of November so it is not possible to comment on it.

IRA terrorists behind a two-year bombing campaign in the 1970s compiled lists of hundreds of possible targets, including British MPs, soldiers and Buckingham Palace, newly released files revealed today.

Perhaps inevitably, Andrew’s account of MI5’s activities in relation to the Provisionals is not a full one, although interesting new details emerge.

He’s an accountant. He’s a Corkman. He’s opinionated. He’s an old friend. So when he heard me, on RTÉ’s Drivetime, suggesting that Brian Lenihan should levy enormous taxes on the very rich, it bothered him.

AT last, after the years of Haughey chicanery, Ahern cronyism and now Cowen indecisiveness, the country has a potential leader capable of restoring its self-respect and credibility.

The seeds of the global credit crunch lie in the US response to the 9/11 terror attacks, an academic said today.

The search for the inner Enda continues to prove elusive, writes Political Correspondent Shaun Connolly

THINKING of the behaviour of the Cork train drivers this week brought Rudyard Kipling to mind. It was he who first coined the term “power without responsibility”.

The British government considered making the North an independent country during the 1970s, according to documents released today under the 30-year rule.

A brochure advertising sex films created quite a stir amongst pharmacists, clergy and politicians, writes Caroline O’Doherty.

Margaret Thatcher was warned the British Army suspected the Ulster Defence Regiment was heavily infiltrated by Protestant extremists in the North four years before she became UK Prime Minister, it was claimed today.

Former Northern Secretary Merlyn Rees has died in hospital in London at the age of 85.

Efforts to secure an end to the IRA’s campaign ultimately proved fruitless, writes Ryle Dwyer.

GAZELLE A asks gazelle B why gazelle B gets up so early in the morning and starts to do stretches and warm-up exercises.