The Dubliners capped a fine night for the Irish at this year’s BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, accepting a lifetime achievement award and ending the night in style.

The sister of a Belfast man shot dead by two British soldiers will promote her family’s campaign to get them dismissed by standing in a Westminster by-election, it was revealed today.

CAT Laughs festival revellers have begun arriving in the Marble City for five days of non-stop comedy and side-splitting craic, beginning tonight.

I WISH to express my support for Mary Kelly, the peace activist who put a few dents in the US war machine at Shannon.