Leaving the Church behind him, Thomas MacDonagh found a new calling almost by accident, writes Shane Kenna

The two salvaged anchors from the 1916 German gun-running ship, the Aud, will be ready for permanent public display within weeks.

How this week 100 years ago was spent by the men and women behind the Rising

Literature, Gaelic games, and Irish classes were all activities in the early 1900s of the young nationalists who would later rally around the Rebellion, writes John Gibney.

UCD 2-16 DCU 1-14: UCD eventually broke the resistance of Dublin rivals DCU to book their place in the Fitzgibbon Cup quarter-finals.

The international trademark war between the two ‘Big Macs’ of the fast food world here, McDonald’s and Supermac’s, has moved to the UK and Europe.

Postal workers yesterday moved to quell fears over the delivery of Christmas mail after it emerged that postal staff were at loggerheads with a contractor at the four national mail centres over staff changes.

Tipperary’s 2010 All-Ireland SHC medallist Seamus Hennessy has revealed his championship season is in jeopardy as he requires further surgery on an ongoing knee problem.

Peter Andre has confirmed he is in a relationship with Emily MacDonagh.

Dinny Cahill just ‘loves the buzz’.

OUR planet is under attack, not by aliens, but by our own ill-adjusted values.

TIPPERARY champions Kildangan have failed in an attempt to change the venue for next Sunday’s Munster club JFC final against Kerry outfit Dromid Pearses.

CHRIS CONWAY believes there is no reason why Thomas MacDonagh’s should be denied the chance to possibly compete in the Munster SFC when Cork champions UCC are allowed to do so.

IT WAS the persistence of two men carrying a Gaelic football torch in the hurling heartland of north Tipperary that finally twisted Chris Conway’s arm.

A 49-year-old man has been shot dead in a gun attack on a halting site.

DANCING supremo Michael Flatley has launched a scathing attack on the extent of change in Ireland and our loss of identity.

Martin McDonagh thanked his Irish parents when collecting his Oscar for best live action short today.

THOSE iodine tablets sent to every household some time back were never meant to protect us from nuclear meltdown, but they could have captured the thermal traces of our DNA for posterity.

THE director of Limerick Institute of Technology has resigned in protest over the appointment of a Fianna Fáil councillor as chairman of the college’s governing body.