A statue is to be erected in Killarney commemorating Second World War hero Monsignor Hugh O’Flaherty, who risked his life to save over 6,500 Jewish people and British POWs from the Nazis in German-occupied Rome.

Hide and Seek

IT was with some trepidation that I read Enniscorthy Town Council has agreed to a statue in the town to the so-called Edentubber Martyrs who died while preparing one of their own bombs just south of the border in 1957.

AN UNSUNG Irish war hero credited with saving thousands of lives is to be honoured with an international humanitarian award in his name.

Rome’s security officials today banned a planned demonstration by a right-wing group seeking a pardon for former Nazi captain Erich Priebke, who was convicted for a wartime massacre of 335 civilians.