A couple who had sex in a McDonald’s drive-thru while waiting for their food have narrowly avoided a jail term.

A vulnerable missing man was forced to work 15-hour days with no pay for 13 years, a trial in the UK has heard.

I WISH to express my gratitude for the support given by the Irish Examiner to the campaign — now successful — for pardons for those unjustly shot at dawn in World War I.

NOW that the 87th anniversary of the silencing of the guns of the Great War has just passed, is it possible to hope that justice at last will be served on behalf of the 306 brave and patriotic young men cruelly shot at dawn by their own comrades in the misguided belief of instilling discipline.

IN 1990, the Public Records Office released the files of the young men (some of them boys of no more than 16 or 17 years of age) executed by the British Army for desertion and allied breaches of military discipline in the First World War.