A rogue’s gallery of 1940s Cork criminals and a lament for her revolutionary Irish lover by the wife of a British peer are among an eclectic gathering of memorabilia to be auctioned in Dublin this month.

WITH negotiations going on to form a new government in Northern Ireland, this week’s RTÉ documentary on the life of Kevin O’Higgins seemed particularly timely.

Drugs baron John Gilligan today won the right to appeal his conviction on two points of law in the Supreme Court.

THE funeral of the former chief justice and government minister Tom O’Higgins took place in Dublin yesterday.