Attempts to give Henry Ford the Freedom of Cork failed to materialise, but Thomas Grimes reveals how UCC finally honoured the man after some persuasion.

Using economics to justify closing our embassy to the Holy See prompted one Dublin mother to say stop, writes Mary E Fitzgibbon

BY pleading the poor mouth before completing his second term as President in 1973, Eamon de Valera had his pension increased by a fraction over 475%.