Former Taoiseach Charles Haughey did not want the bodies of three IRA members shot dead by the SAS in Gibraltar to be taken home through Dublin, archived British papers disclosed.

Dara O’Briain hangs out with Stephen Hawking on BBC One on Tuesday.

Not one, but two pieces of big news for the Finglas-born radio and TV personality.

RTÉ One have released their autumn/winter schedule and Imelda May is getting her own show!

Distance runners often look lucky to be able to stand up after some races, but one man fell to his knees for a very different reason yesterday.

For professionals more adept at setting the nation’s soundtrack, Today FM presenters have this week faced the music from disgruntled listeners.

"Good woman Mary Lou" say Facebook fans.

Radio star Ray D’Arcy and TV presenter Dáithí Ó Sé have kickstarted a new male selfie trend by snapping themselves with a full face of make-up.

A priest who helped broker the IRA’s ceasefire in 1994 has died at the age of 82 in hospital in Dublin.

Fitness regime: Mairead Farrell exercises over three lunchtimes a week.

Two anti-war activists have been arrested for a second time at a protest at Shannon Airport.

There was only one direction for young boyband hopefuls this weekend as all roads led to Dublin’s Button Factory.

With a voice as good as his looks and a bodhrán backing beat, Ryan Dolan was chosen last night to represent Ireland in the 2013 Eurovision.

A middle-aged man and a 78-year-old woman detained over a security breach at Shannon Airport have been released without charge.

A middle aged man and a 75-year-old woman have been arrested on suspicion of criminal damage over a security breach at Shannon Airport.

Two people have been arrested at Shannon airport during a protest against US drone strikes in Pakistan.

SATURDAY

Pic 1: Limerick model Mairead Mulqueen at the premiere of the Mark Wahlberg movie Ted at The Odeon, Point Village.

CORK crooner Derek Burke and his Co Kerry football team swung into top gear to clinch the coveted title in this year’s Celebrity Bainisteoir by a slender one-point win.

A man being questioned in connection with the dissident republican bombing of a courthouse was released today pending a report to prosecutors.

Detectives investigating the dissident republican bombing of a courthouse in the North arrested a second suspect today.

A brother of an IRA woman shot dead by British Special Forces in Gibraltar appeared in court today charged with a bomb attack in the North.

Sinn Féin has hinted that it may seek to ban unionist symbols from Stormont after a refusal to allow an event celebrating the life of IRA member Mairead Farrell.

The Northern Assembly’s governing body launched a fresh effort today to make a decision on whether to ban a controversial Stormont memorial for an IRA woman shot dead by the SAS in Gibraltar.

THE slogan for Sinn Féin’s Árd Fheis screamed “Republicanism in the 21st Century”, but the past sticks to the soul of the party like chewing gum to the sole of a shoe.

RTÉ Television chief Noel Curran promised yesterday the national broadcaster will continue to beef up its summer programming.

Veteran republican Joe Cahill will rank alongside some of the greatest names in Irish nationalism, Sinn Féin’s Martin McGuinness claimed today.

THE headstone of IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands was shattered by vandals who desecrated the republican plot in Milltown Cemetery in west Belfast, it emerged last night.

FRESH claims that the RUC colluded in a triple murder at a Belfast graveyard have sparked further calls for a full public inquiry into the North’s dirty war.