Person: President de Valera

A COMPREHENSIVE SERIES OF ARTICLES ON THIS TOPIC

general

Russian flavour for Cork

An all-Russian musical extravaganza is coming to Cork and Cathy Desmond has everything you need to know ahead of time.

general

Jackie Kennedy’s love of, and visits to, Ireland

The Ireland team and management celebrate winning 5/11/2016

rugby

Peter Jackson: Ireland beating New Zealand in the style they did is a staggering achievement

news

Back room blunder delayed Ireland's EU entry - by 30 mins

news

A determination to expose brutality

How Irish diplomats were caught up in tangled web of wartime deceit

Roses have had their day. But with leadership they could bloom again

THE Rose of Tralee Festival is in financial trouble again. “What else is new?” they were asking facetiously on the RTÉ news.

Sat, 17 Jan, 2004

Missed: a real photo opportunity

IN your New Year’s Day edition there was a photograph which purported to show Liam Cosgrave’s Fine Gael/Labour government receiving their seals of office from President de Valera in 1973.

Sat, 03 Jan, 2004

The only crown Dev would have wanted is up for grabs tomorrow

MY earliest memory of anything to do with rugby was the horror of the Christian Brothers in the early 1950s at the news that Eamon de Valera described rugby as his favourite game.

Sat, 29 Mar, 2003

Government are long on promises but short on delivery

TWO newspaper headlines caught my attention last weekend:

Tue, 11 Mar, 2003

Gabriel Byrne to assist in clearing Irish lieutenant’s name

ACTOR Gabriel Byrne is to extend to the US a campaign to clear the name of an Irish army lieutenant sacked without explanation more than 30 years ago.

Wed, 25 Sep, 2002