When I first went to Jaffa, Israel, to work as a chef for an Anglican guest house, a different choice of breakfast was offered each morning.

This Holy Thursday, I’ll climb the hill from the pier and head east across the island of Inishbofin.

When William crushed the deposed Catholic King James ll and his Jacobite army of some 25,000 men, the victory was celebrated with songs and prayers in the Catholic cathedrals of William’s allies — the Dutch, the Danes, and the Germans, writes Clodagh Finn.

THE April Fool’s Day joke seems to be no laughing matter, after all.

BECAUSE OF the wintry weather during the month of May the May blossom really only came into full flower at the beginning of June.