In 1854, John Henry Newman, a well-bred English convert to Catholicism who had abandoned his career as an Anglican cleric to become a Roman priest, arrived in Dublin. He had been asked by Cardinal Paul Cullen to be Rector of the new Catholic University.

EVERYONE loves a comeback, or do they? The mini-skirt, which celebrates its fiftieth anniversary this year, looks set to make a return and turn heads yet again.

BACK in the day, fashion models were mostly refined young ladies taking a twirl on the catwalk before Mr Right swept them up the aisle to a life of privileged obscurity.

Residents of a historic “dry” community founded by Quakers are taking on the might of Tesco over plans to sell alcohol near their homes in the UK.

Britain is being dragged by Europe towards a metrication system which could see the end of the pint of beer, a court has heard.