It is an extraordinary comment on the Conservative Party that they have made Jeremy Corbyn electable.Brexit could be the makings of a Corbyn primed to lead nation

It is an extraordinary comment on the Conservative Party that they have made Jeremy Corbyn electable.

Evidence suggests Assad was behind this week’s chemical weapons attack. Leaders are saying it is a redline issue but Western powers are at a loss to respond, says Peter Apps

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Alice Barry’s play tells the true story of an Irish woman who tried to kill Mussolini, writes Colette Sheridan

The best of this week’s TV in one place. 

The estate agent has sold the sumptuous Ileclash three times before. It’s easy to see why, writes Tommy Barker.

There were three veterans of Italy’s 2006 World Cup triumph missing when the team met up at the Coverciano training centre in Florence yesterday to prepare for matches against Spain and Germany.

I was walking past the US Embassy and I began to wonder, what if the unimaginable happens? What if Donald Trump became president of the USA?

Forget pizzas and piazzas — South Tyrol in the north of Italy is dominated by the Dolomites, says Suzanne Harrington.

Robert O. Paxton says we should not stick old epithets on those we disagree with, as it absolves us of the responsibility of thinking up new and more suitable labels

NUMERO ZERO from Umberto Eco is a novel of two stories: the shooting of Mussolini and his mistress in 1945, and that of Colonna, a writer in 1992 Milan who accepts the task of ghost-writing a journalist’s memoir.

The newly crowned Miss Italy has been ridiculed for a second time this week, after she said her favourite historical Italian figure is American basketball legend Michael Jordan.

The newly-crowned Miss Italy has been ridiculed for telling the contest judges that she would have liked to have lived through the Second World War.

The independent statehood of the Vatican City allows Pope Francis to be a neutral voice of conscience for all of the peoples across the world, writes TP O’Mahony

Leaving Certificate French exams were on the morning timetable for students yesterday and featured many topical issues.

A ‘time of great interior crisis’ early in his career turned Pope Francis into a family man and one who is determined that the Church puts the care of individuals above doctrine, writes Paul Valley

His autocratic style as leader of the Jesuits in Argentina was a chastening experience that shaped Pope Francis’ life and led to his transformation as champion of the poor, Paul Valley reports.

Efforts to find the oldest woman in Limerick have resulted in an opera, writes Colette Sheridan

After the controversy surrounding James McClean's decision, we take a look at others who stuck by their decisions - for better or worse.

Last weekend, James McClean, quite clearly and eloquently explained in an open letter to Wigan Athletic chairman Dave Whelan why he would be not be joining his team-mates in wearing a poppy on his shirt, as is the tradition on Remembrance day.

In this world nothing can be said to be certain except death and taxes, wrote Benjamin Franklin in 1789 but evidently he had not envisaged the ingenuity of French football.

NELSON MANDELA will be remembered as the person who, more than any other, brought an end to apartheid, the heartless policy of “separate development” in which white, black, and South Asian South Africans were obliged to live apart.

Paolo Di Canio responded to fresh criticism over his appointment as Sunderland manager by insisting he is not a racist and “does not support the ideology of fascism”.

The Dean of Durham has written an open letter to new Sunderland manager Paolo di Canio calling on the Italian to publicly renounce fascism or risk being associated with “toxic far-right tendencies”.

The political situation in Italy is similar to the 1920s. There’s even a Mussolini-like character ready to break through, writes Tim Parks

The incredible rise of Beppe Grillo’s Five-Star Movement in Italy has left the markets in turmoil.

Former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi praised Benito Mussolini for “having done good” despite the Fascist dictator’s anti-Jewish laws, immediately sparking expressions of outrage as Europe yesterday held Holocaust remembrances.

Former Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi says Benito Mussolini did much good despite his regime’s anti-Jewish laws.

I never expected to be a performer. I can’t dance and have the stage presence of an emotionally abused swan.

If we took economic collapse, soaring unemployment, evaporating pensions, and the prospect of years of austerity imposed on us to pay off private bankers’ gambling debts half as seriously as we took sport, then we’d have a revolution more or less the second Tuesday of every month.

The controversy over the closure of the Vatican embassy reminds me of the behaviour of some Italians following the death of Mussolini.

The Government’s decision to shut down its embassy to the Holy See is political not religious, writes TP O’Mahony

EVERY revolution has its casualties and the fate of deposed tyrants may not always be a priority for those who deposed them.

THERE was some irony for Leaving Certificate French students who were asked on the higher level exam to discuss the virtues of video refereeing in sport.

THE US State Department has put American embassies on alert and warned of the heightened possibility of anti-American violence after the killing of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden by American forces in Pakistan.

WHILE the Oscars is an overblown act of worship of Hollywood by Hollywood, where the stars and directors are perceived as gods, the Cannes Film Festival is a bit more European.

Hide and Seek

IS NAZISM making a comeback? You might think so reading some of the headlines this week. “Behind the migrant row, Europe keeps shifting to the far-right,” warns Time magazine. “Finland leads rise of the far-right in Europe,” according to The Daily Telegraph.