The sight of Jacob Rees-Mogg lying stretched across three seats at the House of Commons during Tuesday’s late night debate on Brexit is proof of the contempt with which he and some of his colleagues hold the Mother of Parliaments.

For his debut novel, Meath author Oisín Fagan stepped back in time to imagine the aftermath of the Black Death in Ireland. It could be the next Game of Thrones, writes Ed Power.

This Saturday at 8.30pm the Sinn Féin ard fheis will go live on RTÉ from the RDS. Gerry Adams will share his intentions and timeline for stepping down as party leader, writes Gerard Howlin. 

All-Ireland under-21 Football winning captain Con O'Callaghan will make his first championship start for the Dublin senior team in tomorrow's Leinster quarter-final against Carlow in Portlaoise.

EXOTIC names of places like Kabul, Kandahar and Khartoum were on the lips of many Irish people not only during the past 20 years but also in the 1870s and 1880s.

THE setting is Victorian Dublin, as newly promoted detective inspector, Joe Swallow investigates an outbreak of sexual assaults on women. 

As executive director of Amnesty International Ireland, Colm O’Gorman is immediately recognisable as the man who passionately represents the disenfranchised. 

For some reason the great streets of famous cities are almost always a depressing experience. 

The testimony of a man aged 91, who died earlier this year, has provided an intriguing insight into the strong republican affiliations of a group of set dancers photographed at a crossroads in Ireland more than 100 years ago.

On the 125th anniversary of the death of CS Parnell, Ryle Dwyer looks at the historical implications of the Church leading a heave against him.

People Before Profit claims “conservative forces” have led to the cancellation of a public meeting the party was due to hold last night on the subject of abortion.

All editing is over. Speech, projected on new platforms, has become the newly authoritative medium, writes Gerard Howlin.

A 72-year-old grandmother who slipped and fell in a supermarket carpark on what she claimed were recently painted ground markings has settled her High Court action.

Outside, as a new economic recovery day dawns, the water meters are going in. Is this how we cherish the children of the nation in 2015, by measuring miserably their consumption of The Oil Of Life Itself?

Fears expressed for the GAA’s disciplinary system — in the wake of Diarmuid Connolly’s successful appeal against a suspension that allowed him play in Dublin’s All-Ireland semi-final against Mayo this year — have eased significantly in the wake of a landmark case held in Belfast this week.

The last chance to hit the dance floor at a hotel that hosted top political figures in Irish history takes place this weekend, as the new owner sells off its contents.

Earlier this week, the former CEO and owner of the Peanut Corporation of America was sentenced to 28 years in prison for his part in a salmonella outbreak that led to the death of nine people across the US. More than 700 people suffered illness and 166 being hospitalised as a result.

Poor Ireland, whatever you think about past generations they at least had their leaders of stature.

Sailing

James Molyneaux stood out as old school even in the heart of the establishment, writes Gerard Howlin

In his opinion piece on prostitution (November 11) Mick Wallace claims that the Turn off the Red Light campaign makes a number of false assertions and assumptions. Ironically, it is Mr Wallace who has made a number of ill-informed and misguided assertions and assumptions.

For nearly a decade the United Ireland newspaper was a propaganda vehicle for Charles Stewart Parnell. JP O’Malley on a new history of the publication

IN Ireland there are particular circumstances feeding the recurring frenzies of first using nuns as guardians of female sexuality, and then turning on them for doing just that.

Tune in to Ch4 at 9pm tonight and meet the social workers whose job it is to take children away from their parents.

Theatre: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Everyman, Cork

It is right and fitting that Michael Collins be honoured in the military barracks that bears his noble name. Michael Collins was an outstanding Irishman, a true and tragic hero.

It wouldn’t be an great exaggeration to say that Tipperary last Sunday was a bit like racing used to be in this country!

I was slightly bemused when I read Anthony O’Leary’s letter to the editor (Aug 7) entitled “What we really need is another Churchill”.

They’ll be coming down from an incredible high but Anthony Daly has no doubt his Dublin players will be mentally and physically right for Sunday’s Leinster final against Galway.

On the 40th anniversary of the deletion of the ‘special position’ of the Catholic Church from the Constitution, Ryle Dwyer examines the article’s origins

French and history filled the timetable for Junior and Leaving Certificate students yesterday.

THERE is a real tremor of delight in subsuming ones intelligence to the blatant nonsense that a particular washing powder will wash whiter than white.

Laois manager Justin McNulty is determined to draw a line under the controversy that erupted in the wake of last Sunday week’s Division 1 league clash against Armagh in Portlaoise.

28-piece set dates from the 19th century, reports Des O’Sullivan.

St Brigid's (Dublin) 2-16 Portlaoise (Laois) 1-15 (aet), Parnell Park

In the first of three articles on the history of the presidency, Ryle Dwyer highlights the early importance of the office. It was not the partition but the head of state issue that led to the Civil War.

EMIGRATION is again one of the biggest problems facing this country.

THE statues go first.