Election candidate Deirdre Clune recently visited a school where pupils are taught to elect a council. The Cork MEP says she’s learned a lot about politics in recent years too, writes Catherine Shanahan

With Rosalia Long’s Zumba moves triggering positive feelings left, right and centre, Beaumont Girls National School was as good a place as any to re-energise for the final week of European Elections campaigning.

FOR 125 years, the Model School situated on Anglesea St in Cork was — as its name suggests — a model for primary education, seeing thousands of children of various religious denominations and social backgrounds go through its doors.

In the midst of the power-sharing difficulties in the North, Ryle Dwyer argues that people should remember how such problems were initially resolved.

Minister for finance John Bruton wanted to withdraw Irish troops from peacekeeping in Lebanon in 1987 because Ireland was not being financially reimbursed sufficiently by the UN, writes Seán McCárthaigh

The vast photographic archive of a former Lord Mayor of Cork who founded the Barry’s Tea empire has been donated to his native city.

All 31 upmarket homes are released at once, without phasing or a showhouse, says Tommy Barker

Liam Cosgrave’s monumental legacy is that he put the nation’s security and the national interest before party considerations, writes Ryle Dwyer   

In 1983, former Cork South West TD Jim O’Keeffe was involved in the discovery of a Russian spy ring in Dublin. His story now features in a new RTÉ documentary, writes Robert Mulhern

The 19th century, end-of-terrace Ivernia, in Cork’s Ballintemple area, has a large, airy sun room at the front, says Tommy Barker

A SITE tucked away off Cork’s main Blackrock Road with full planning for a five-bed detached two-storey home is being guided at €410,000 by estate agents Casey & Kingston.

Terry Prone is my favourite political agony aunt. 

Rugby legend Ronan O’Gara will be conferred with the Freedom of Cork City today during a ceremony which will be streamed live to the world.

River House in Cappoquin may be derelict, but it has history and great views of the River Blackwater.

The Cabinet was divided over the merits of allowing postal voting after reports of widespread abuse of the system during the 1985 local elections.

The British and Irish governments ruled out co-operation on testing emissions from the nuclear plant at Sellafield in 1986 in the wake of the major nuclear accident at Chernobyl.

A police chief investigating an alleged shoot-to-kill policy in the North confided in a diplomat he was not concerned about a cover-up but “murder, six murders”, declassified files show.

Minister for public service, Ruairí Quinn, objected 30 years ago to proposals for Ireland to sign a European Convention which would allow for the transfer of Irish prisoners held abroad back home because of the existing overcrowding problem in Irish prisons.

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It was a simple and dignified ceremony, straight-forward and to the point with little or no fuss, one he himself would have been proud of.

The President and Taoiseach joined hundreds of mourners at today’s funeral Mass for former tánaiste Peter Barry.

Here’s a briefing on some of the stories and issues highlighted on irishexaminer.com today

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Tributes have been flooding in for Peter Barry following his death yesterday.

From paving the way for peace in Northern Ireland to spearheading the growth of a tea empire, former tánaiste and foreign affairs minister Peter Barry was a man of many parts, a classic blend if you like, which helped make him one of those rare politicians to win respect across the political divide.

Paul Richards remembers the phone call and it still brings a smile to his face.

The Dunnes Stores strike began on July 19, 1984.

John Hume wanted to have talks with the IRA Army Council in what senior government officials thought was a plan for a public and damaging confrontation.