British Private John Parr set off on his reconnaissance bike on the lookout for German troops amid the rolling farmland and woods south of Brussels in August 1914.

THEODORA FITZGIBBON was a beautiful, elegant, erudite lady, well travelled.

Congratulations on the Winds of Change spread (Irish Examiner, April 7) — the start of sensible discussion on a topic that affects every Irish resident.

A fugitive Mafia boss caught hiding in suburbia was a leader in a murderous gang that “spread terror in Sicily”, a court heard yesterday.

A fugitive Mafia boss who has been hiding in British suburbia for 20 years could be released on bail today amid concerns that there are “significant deficiencies” with the warrant for his arrest.

Deadlock: Dublin v Meath 1991

MY DAILY routine is that I’m running 10 minutes late for everything!

CANCER rates are increasing at such a pace that four in ten people in Britain will be diagnosed with the disease at some point during their life, a health charity has warned.

WHAT is it about older men that makes them irresistible — their wrinkles, their baldness, their slack muscle tone?

The Holy Thief

THE book that launched a thousand Leaving Cert meltdowns is making a comeback.

A BUSINESSMAN caught up in deals with former cabinet minister Michael Lowry was “paid off” to drop a series of actions amid an alleged bid to blackmail communications magnate Denis O’Brien, the Moriarty Tribunal heard yesterday.

STRYKER does not anticipate that a voluntary recall of two replacement hip cups under its “Trident line” at its Cork facility will have a long-lasting disruptive effect on company supplies, said Stephen P MacMillan, Stryker’s president and chief executive.

A HIGH-LEVEL internal report in RTÉ has found there were “shortcomings” in the station’s approach to the controversial series on cocaine use among the middle classes.

THE RTÉ Authority will this week discuss a controversial documentary that backs a claim that a government minister abused cocaine.

PINK was the defining colour of the last week. The shocking fuchsia suit Margaret Thatcher wore to meet Gordon Brown wasn’t just the first thing to hand in the wardrobe. As a former British foreign secretary acidly put it, “she has a perfectly good blue dress at home”. She was seeking attention and she got it, dominating the headlines at the expense of Conservative leader David Cameron’s long-awaited ‘green’ report.

Anybody who insists they have a book in them are to get the chance to prove it - and win a €10,000 publishing deal, it was announced today.

UEFA are "very likely” to launch an investigation into incidents during Rangers’ defeat against Osasuna last week, which saw Gers fans clash with Spanish police.

Rangers fans will today find out manager Paul Le Guen’s reasons for controversially stripping Barry Ferguson of the captaincy.

BRITISH Prime Minister Tony Blair yesterday described John Profumo, who has died aged 91, as "a politician with a glittering career who made a serious mistake, but then underwent a journey of redemption".

JOHN PROFUMO, centre of the most sensational sex and security scandal of the 20th century, did penance for parliamentary dishonour with more than 30 years of charity work among the poor in London.

John Macmillan, secretary of the Rangers Supporters’ Clubs, believes it would have been a disaster for the club to throw a new manager into the most crucial matches of the season.

Franz Ferdinand frontman Alex Kapranos faced a different kind of crowd tonight as he took part in a high-brow discussion on the future of music.

A church minister, a priest, and three teachers are among dozens of people being investigated in a child porn crackdown, British police said today.

THE majority of Rangers fans would be happy to see Fernando Ricksen sold in the summer, according to supporters’ group chief John Macmillan.

THE general secretary of the Rangers Supporters Association has accused some of the current Ibrox players of a “lack of commitment”.

TO be happy, these days, is a huge social error. It defines you as shallow and without conscience.

JEFFREY ARCHER must stay on his best behaviour for six months or be punished for breaching prison rules with his diary on life behind bars, it emerged last night.

FORMER British Prime Minister Harold MacMillan put it this way: “Events, dear boy, events.”

The publishers of a cleaned up "reader-friendly" edition of James Joyce’s masterpiece Ulysses were today accused in court of copyright infringement and "passing-off".

Christine Keeler, the woman at the centre of the Profumo scandal, claims she was made pregnant by the then Secretary of State for War.