Ninety years ago today, Michael Collins supposedly accepted the surrender of Dublin Castle, but Ryle Dwyer notes that this was really a sly piece of press manipulation

TODAY (December 2) is the bicentenary of the founding of the Society for the Education of the Poor in Ireland — a Protestant organisation aimed at providing non-denominational education with a values-in-common ethos, and without any attempt at proselytising.

A RESTORED coastal fort could become an iconic internationally recognised tourist attraction, hosting up to 100,000 visitors annually within 20 years.

IF Queen Elizabeth deigns to come to Cork during her State visit to Ireland, they may have to do a bit of heavy lifting at UCC. A statue of her predecessor, Queen Victoria, once held pride of place on the roof of the college’s Aula Maxima when it was Queen’s University Cork.

THE controversy over the European Commission’s efforts to compel the 16 euro states to submit their draft budgets to Brussels before presenting them to their respective parliaments made somewhat confused reading this week. Surely this would be an incursion into Irish sovereignty.

Peter Levy recalls the colourful history of the railway lines which ran through East Cork from 1854 to 1987.

LOVED ones of the 270 victims of the Lockerbie bombing yesterday began taking part in a series of events to mark the 20th anniversary of the atrocity.

THE oldest survivor of the War of Independence is opposed to this year’s Easter Rebellion commemoration - despite marching in many military parades over the years.

Taoiseach Bertie Ahern tonight described a scathing attack on President Mary McAleese by Democratic Unionist leader Rev Ian Paisley as immature.

The body representing Irish soldiers has expressed annoyance at requests that its members participate in a local festival in Co Kilkenny this week.