THERE is something deeply unsettling at the sight of senior Irish politicians travelling to the UK to tell people there how they should vote in the in-out EU referendum later this month.

Having experience as a high-level adviser to foreign diplomats, I understand the role an ambassador plays in representing a country.

Kevin Vickers must be the only Sergeant-at-arms in history to live up to that title (when he shot an armed intruder in the Canadian parliament in 2014).

A diplomat hailed a hero worldwide for shooting a gunman who stormed the Canadian parliament has wrestled with a protester at a military ceremony in Ireland.

Here’s a briefing on some of the stories and issues highlighted on irishexaminer.com today

A guard hailed a hero after the shooting dead of a gunman who stormed the Canadian parliament last year has been unveiled as the country’s new ambassador to Ireland.

The gunman who murdered a soldier at Canada’s national war memorial in Ottawa and stormed parliament before he was shot dead made a video recording of himself before the attack, police have said.

The gunman who shot dead a soldier in the Canadian capital was not under surveillance or on a list of around 90 individuals deemed to be a “high risk”, police have admitted.

The mother of the man accused of killing a soldier at Ottawa’s war memorial then storming parliament before being shot dead says she is crying for the victims of the shooting, not her son.

The mother of the man accused of killing a soldier at Ottawa’s National War Memorial then storming the Canadian parliament before being shot dead says she is crying for the victims of the shooting, not her son.

A masked gunman who killed a soldier at Canada’s war memorial and stormed parliament before being shot dead by the ceremonial sergeant-at-arms was an Islamic convert, it has emerged.

A Canadian soldier standing guard at a war memorial in the country’s capital was shot dead yesterday, and gunfire then erupted inside Parliament, authorities said.