An uncle of mine, a proud Corkman, served as a Catholic chaplin with the Grenadier Guards during the Second World War.

SURELY not only the usual suspects but the public generally should be enraged by the fact that virtually the whole population, apart from a handful of very wealthy people, are going to have to pay in one way or another the huge cost of bailing out Anglo Irish Bank.

A HAPPY New Year to all.

Nazi war crimes suspect John Demjanjuk will go on trial in Munich today in a case that breaks new ground in Germany’s pursuit of Holocaust perpetrators.

Richard Collins looks at Ireland’s part in the conservation of the European bison.

IT is surprising to find Denmark at the centre of the international furore over the cartoons that have inflamed Muslim opinion because it has traditionally been one of those countries least associated with religious intolerance.

Nuremberg was marking the 60th anniversary today of the post-war trial of some of Nazi Germany’s top leaders, a landmark process that ushered in a new era of international law.

A FORMER guard at the Nuremberg trials after the Second World War has come forward nearly 60 years later to claim he provided the cyanide poison that Nazi war criminal Hermann Goering used to commit suicide the night before his scheduled execution.

ALL over Europe, especially in countries which opposed the Iraq war, you can hear gleeful tidings that America and Britain have been badly bitten after their Middle East adventure.