The media reports about the visit to Ireland of Charles and Camilla are hard to stomach.

After all the meticulously prepared speeches and polite exchanges, it was casual talk of shrimping boats and tides that held Prince Charles rapt.

One could not stop one’s foot tapping.

Britain's Prince Charles and his wife Camilla have arrived in Mullaghmore, Co Sligo, where his great-uncle was killed in a bombing.

Prince Charles paid tribute to the "grandfather he never had", the assassinated Lord Mountbatten, in a speech this afternoon in which he said Ireland's friendship cannot be based on "pretending the past did not happen".

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The Prince of Wales has been presented with a piece of fossil coral from Mullaghmore ahead of his visit to the scene of Lord Mountbatten’s murder.

The Prince of Wales has expressed regret over lives lost in the Troubles, Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams has said.

The Prince of Wales has expressed regret over lives lost in the Troubles in the North, Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams has said.

A rescuer who pulled bodies from the water following Lord Mountbatten’s assassination has said the murder site should be known for the joy it brought the royals, not just the horror.

Ireland is prepared for any security threat to the Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall during their visit to the country next week, Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald has vowed.

Army bomb experts have described as "viable" two devices discovered during a series of raids during which six men were arrested for suspected terror offences.

The Prince of Wales will make an emotional trip to Mullaghmore in the west of Ireland where his great uncle Lord Mountbatten was assassinated by the IRA, officials have confirmed.

The Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall are to visit the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland in May, Clarence House has announced.

SEWN together with as much care as this landmark State visit, it was joint admiration of a fan made from handcrafted Youghal lace which saw queen Elizabeth and President Higgins relax into laughter after the spectacle of the welcome to Windsor Castle.

One of Belfast’s most senior Protestant clerics has said he would welcome a visit from Pope Francis.

Pope Francis is set to be invited to Belfast, it can be revealed.

SEVERAL days after 15-year-old Ann Lovett died in hospital, just hours after giving birth to a 6½lb baby boy found dead beside a Co Longford grotto, an anonymous caller phoned the Sunday Tribune newspaper to explain what had happened on that cold and dark winter afternoon on Jan 31, 1984 outside Granard.

Two gardaí, one who became a double world champion road bowler and the other who once guarded Lord Mountbatten, have been honoured by their communities following their retirements.

CONFRONTED by a 20-foot wave, I’d do the honourable thing.

Mixed Blessings

Asked about a report over the weekend that the IRA leadership is reportedly considering an apology to victims of the Troubles, Martin McGuinness, the deputy first minister of the North, responded pointedly that “the IRA are gone”.

Sinn Féin's Martin McGuinness is to make a keynote speech on British/Irish relations in London tonight.

The historic handshake between the British Queen and Sinn Féin’s Martin McGuinness, together with his words of blessing as they said goodbye, have been hailed as a watershed moment for Irish-Britishrelations.

Britain's Queen Elizabeth II has met and shaken hands with Sinn Féin Martin McGuinness.

Britain's Queen Elizabeth II will shake hands with Sinn Féin’s Martin McGuinness today in a gesture that will herald a major milestone in Anglo-Irish relations.

On Friday night, former US President Bill Clinton addressed the annual dinner of the Worldwide Ireland Fund at Ballymaloe House in Cork. In the audience were Taoiseach Enda Kenny, Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney and 250 delegates from around the world. The following is an abbreviation of his 30-minute unscripted address

The President of Ireland, Michael D Higgins, has hailed plans for an historic handshake between the Queen of England and Martin McGuinness.

Martin McGuinness will shake hands with Queen Elizabeth in Belfast next week after the Sinn Féin president, Gerry Adams, declared it was “the right thing to do”.

A former British double agent in the IRA has denied being a pathological liar over claims a suspected Garda mole destroyed evidence from one of the worst atrocities in the Troubles.

IT’S been a year now since our economic sovereignty went west.

THREE weeks today, we will elect Ireland’s ninth president.

The Queen's historic visit to Ireland was hailed as a spectacular diplomatic triumph tonight.

The British Queen’s expression of sympathy in her only public address of her historic Irish visit was very warm, heartfelt and thoughtful, UK Prime Minister David Cameron has said.

Britain's Queen Elizabeth II will visit the country's flagship horse breeding centre today as she continues her four-day Irish tour.

QUEEN ELIZABETH last night offered her “sincere thoughts and deep sympathies” to those who have suffered due to the troubled past of Britain and Ireland — but stopped short of an apology.

The Queen tonight offered her deep sympathy to everyone who has suffered in centuries of conflict between Britain and Ireland.

The Queen’s visit to the Republic of Ireland will “put a seal on the past and build for the future”, former prime minister Sir John Major said.

KATE MIDDLETON will be following in Diana’s footsteps when she marries into the Royal Family as The Firm’s next potential People’s Princess.

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An amnesty for prisoners to mark the visit of Pope John Paul II was put back over fears of a burglary blitz on the country’s empty homes, Government files revealed today.

A Hollywood movie which was set to lift the lid on the final days of Britain's colonial rule of India, starring Cate Blanchett, is reported to have been put on hold.

A HUSH descended over a Northern Ireland beauty spot yesterday as families and ex-servicemen marked the 30th anniversary of an IRA double bombing which claimed the lives of 18 soldiers and a civilian.

THE day Earl Mountbatten of Burma died was “one of the darkest days in modern Irish history” and a day of shame, a 30th anniversary memorial service in Mullaghmore, Co Sligo, was told yesterday.