The search is on for information or descendants of Irishmen killed 150 years ago in the worst mining disaster in English history.

A memorial consisting of three standing stones will honour West Cork men who lost their lives in service during the First World War.

On Easter Saturday 1916, Tom Clifford sat down in his room in 4 Gardiner St to write a letter to his brother Dan. The letter has recently been discovered by their niece, Carmel Clifford.

A 12-year-old boy who it is claimed was injured at birth at Kerry General Hospital has settled his action against the HSE with an interim payment of €1.75m.

The Irish Examiner has devoted much space this year to Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa.

Now that the state ceremony in Glasnevin is over, may I use your columns to say a ludicrously brief, but intensely sincere, thank you to everyone who participated in whatever form in the Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa centenary commemoration in West Cork over the last number of weeks – and most especially to those who have helped organise the various events (all of whom I hope to thank in person over the coming weeks).

Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa must be turning in his grave at what has become of his beloved country since ‘independence’.

TODAY’S re-enactment of the funeral of Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa in Glasnevin Cemetry is the first of 40 historic commemorations across the country in the State’s centenary programme for the 2016 celebration of 1916.

The funeral of Fenian patriot Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa in August 1915 will be remembered a century later in Dublin tomorrow in the first State ceremonial event of the Ireland 2016 Centenary Programme.

What made Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa oppose British rule? Author Shane Kenna describes his early life and the key moments that helped shape his future path as a patriot.    

Certain things tend to run in families — particularly names. Williams Rossa Cole is a great grandson of O’Donovan Rossa. His brother is Ross Williams Cole, and their father was William Rossa Cole. The brothers have four children between them — all have a Rossa in their name.

The lone Irish-based descendent of O’Donovan Rossa tells Noel Baker how her family is proud of its famous ancestor. We get a bigger picture of him as a human being and not just as a Fenian.

The casket which carried the body of Irish Fenian leader Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa home from the US has been restored and will go on public display this weekend.

As President Michael D Higgins continued his West Cork visit yesterday, one thought struck you: This might be the best spoken-word tour the county has seen for many a year.

Mel B's management have rubbished claims she was axed from 'The X Factor' because of her husband Stephen Belafonte.

In the centenary year of Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa’s death, it is appropriate that his life, and his patriotism, be marked in the county and country of his birth, writes Gabriel Doherty

A commemoration group is attempting to track relatives of a number of passengers aboard the torpedoed cruise liner Lusitania, almost 100 years ago.

David Murphy opened with six brilliant bowls at Bauravilla to send him on his way to an emphatic win over Martin Coppinger in the Mick Crowley Cup.

When the esteemed Dr James Barry died in 1865, an examination of his body revealed that he was a woman, Margaret Bulkley, who had disguised herself to practise medicine, says Robert Hume

Jeremy Kyle was pepper-sprayed by a nightclub bouncer in Magaluf, according to 'Gogglebox' star Scarlett Moffatt.

Adam Higginbotham goes on the trail of the Traveller gang behind Europe’s rhino horn theft epidemic.

Questions remain over why police and intelligence agencies did not monitor the Muslim fanatics who beheaded a young soldier more closely, and an inquiry is being carried out by MPs on the Intelligence and Security Committee into how much they knew and whether the killers could have been stopped.

Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin wants the Government to recognise that fodder shortages have reached national emergency status, and to introduce measures to relieve pressure on farmers.

FOLLOWING a whirlwind romance, West Cork bachelor Jeremiah Tomáisín Mór married his gorgeous, high-spirited Polish fiancée Yalanna Borkowski in a lavish ceremony in the village of Allihies on Saturday.

The owners of a family-run shop have presented the local community with a defibrillator.

We’ve got dolls that wet, crawl, and talk.

Ploughing championship wins last week for Longford, Donegal, Tipperary North, Galway, and Kerry indicated the rise of interest in competition ploughing across Ireland.

She was acclaimed as one of the world’s greatest designers, so why was Eileen Gray ignored by Ireland for so long, asks Manchán Magan

A YOUNG Irishman’s poignant message in a bottle which he threw from the deck of the doomed Titanic has gone on public display for the first time in almost a century.

George Baker's brimming confidence in My Kingdom was justified as he ran out a clear-cut winner of the £10,000 (€11,764) 180Casino.com Brighton Rocket Handicap today.

IT MIGHT sound like a dead-end job – but an Irishman has landed a job as a professional zombie.

“I CAN never get into a relationship again. I can’t trust men. I have two little girls, I can’t trust men whatsoever around them. I’m always overprotective and paranoid. I don’t have confidence around men.”

THE young son of a Co Limerick farmer who was tragically killed when he went to help feed cattle, was a country boy at heart who wanted to get stuck in and involved with the many activities on the farm, mourners heard yesterday.

NEIGHBOURING north Kerry and west Limerick parishes were last night trying to come to terms with tragedies that claimed the lives of a young solider and a schoolboy.

A mother in the US is pregnant with her 18th child.

MANY people may have thought a family’s quest for a €160 million fortune was dead and buried following a DNA test.

A WAR of words erupted last night over claims that millions of people have been kissing the wrong Blarney Stone.

OFFICIALLY they queued from eight in the morning but for some, the journey to bid farewell to Charlie began a day before.

US mum Michelle Duggar has had her sixteenth child, and she’s already thinking about doing it again.

Sean O’Riordan on a man who has every incentive to keep Georgia on his mind.