Margaret Thatcher has reached her final resting place as her ashes were buried in the grounds of the Royal Hospital Chelsea.

MANY Irish people, it seems, regard Angela Merkel — the German chancellor as near as certain as to returned to power after the German federal elections on Sunday — to be the modern day version of Margaret Thatcher. And, by extension, like her as much, regarding each as hostile to the interests of the Irish.

WITHOUT striking too ghoulish a tone, perhaps it is fair to reflect that amid the brouhaha surrounding the death of Margaret Thatcher, an opportunity was lost.

First volume of Margaret Thatcher’s authorised biography is predictably flattering, but not a hagiography, says Shaun Connolly

A galaxy removed from the pomp and splendour of St Paul’s Cathedral, it was business as usual in the gales and rain in unpretentious Dromanassig, Co Kerry, yesterday.

It was a week for reflection. A week when we marvelled at a great champion besting injury to captivate us with a dramatic entrance.

I met Margaret Thatcher half-a-dozen times in the fraught 1980s. She was inquisitive, formidable, and indifferent to opinion of her,says Allan Prosser

In these dire times, do we need someone with the strength of the Iron Lady?

Margaret Thatcher was a great world heroine who, along with former US President Ronald Reagan, was instrumental in winning the freedom of the hundreds of millions subjugated by the former Soviet Easter Bloc.

With the passing of the Iron Lady, the Anglo-Irish Agreement 1985 is seen by many as a breakthrough.

The legacy of Margaret Thatcher will be hotly contested and I was never a fan of hers.

The Minister for Justice Alan Shatter has criticised Sinn Féin for comments made in the wake of Margaret Thatcher's death.

LOVE her or loathe her, one thing is beyond dispute: Margaret Thatcher transformed Britain.

Though it’s nearly a quarter of a century since Margaret Thatcher stood down as leader of Britain’s Conservative party in 1990, and more than half a century since she was first elected to the House of Commons in 1959, her death yesterday, at 87, showed she remains utterly divisive.

Controversial in life, British ex-prime minister Margaret Thatcher continued to divide the nation in death, with sombre plans for a funeral and eulogies rejected by some in favour of celebrations and parties.

I USED to dread Margaret Thatcher coming to the North because it meant 12 hours in the company of the IRA’s No 1 target.

Margaret Thatcher died this morning following a stroke, her spokesman Lord Bell said.

As the V&A museum in London opens an exhibition of iconic Hollywood costumes, Suzanne Harrington takes a look at the stories behind the clothes.

Judas, talking tough, or electioneering?

Silent film The Artist made a big noise at the Bafta film awards last night winning seven awards including Best Film, Leading Actor and Best Director.

RTE's hit drama 'Love/Hate' looks set to clean up at the 2012 IFTAs this year, with ten nominations announced today.

Three women have won the Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of the importance of women’s roles in the spread of global peace, writes Bjoern Amland.

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Leymah Gbowee used different tactics to confront thugs and killers in war-ravaged Liberia.

Dilma Rousseff was sworn in as Brazil’s first female president today, capping a rapid political trajectory for the career technocrat and former Marxist rebel who was imprisoned and tortured during the nation’s long military dictatorship.

FOR Charles J Haughey the Fianna Fáil Árd Fheis of February 16, 1980 was the republican equivalent of a coronation. He was returning in triumph at the head of the party in which he was a kind of outcast — a virtual pariah in the eyes of many — for the past decade.

PERHAPS, like me, you have found this week’s Ryder Cup celebrations more than a little surreal? All those mud-splattered Brits, mainly, but not exclusively, Welsh, chanting “Europe, Europe” at Celtic Manor, while living in a nation which, with the possible exception of Greece, is the most Euro-phobic of any of the 27 member states of the EU?

BRITAIN, it seems, is drowning in a vale of tears. One after another, in the run-up to their general election, British politicians are lining up to emote in public. Never before have so many cried so easily, so openly and so often.

MUSLIM victims of the Bosnian war have voiced outrage at the decision to grant early release to a Bosnian Serb ex-president convicted of crimes against humanity.

THE daughter of former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher tells how her mother’s dementia has left her struggling to remember the simplest facts, in book extracts that were published yesterday.

BOTH your columnist Terry Prone and Anthony Leavy, in your letters page, raise the matter of women in politics (Irish Examiner, March 26).

WHEN Bertie Ahern wants to spur the masses, he turns to the Iron Lady rather than the Republican men of steel.

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf takes office today as Liberia’s new head of state, carving her name into history as Africa’s first elected female president and taking the helm of a ruined nation struggling for peace after a quarter century of coups and war.

PRESIDENT Mary McAleese has left Harry Potter author JK Rowling and Britain’s Queen trailing in her wake after being named the 21st most powerful woman in the world.

Oliver Stone is lining up another historical figure for his next biopic: former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.

Biljana Plavsic, the former Bosnian Serb leader who expressed remorse for the horrors committed against non-Serbs during the Bosnian war, was today jailed for 11 years by the UN war crimes court.

A POLITICAL protester was yesterday warned he faced jail for publicly decapitating a £150,000 statue of Baroness Thatcher.

THE “unimaginable” rapes, killings and camps of the 1992-5 Bosnian war evoked the horrors of World War II, former US secretary of state Madeleine Albright told the UN war crimes tribunal yesterday.

Abigail Levene and Paul Gallagher, The Hague