PAINSTAKING work collecting all the records of the 2,265 men who fought with the Auxiliary Division of the Royal Irish Constabulary (ADRIC) finally helped identify the man who instigated the burning of Cork city 90 years ago today.

A YOUNG man has reaped a reward for foregoing an acting career to take on an engineering degree.

I SUGGEST to Jack Lane (Letters, October 20) that his interpretation of history is even more cynical and inaccurate than those who produced and co-authored The Tudors.

There was confusion tonight over the fate of a potentially historic antique pistol reluctantly handed over to gardai during a gun amnesty.

ECHOES of the “disappeared” reverberate in every line of today’s story that a nameless Black and Tan was reportedly shot and secretly buried on a windswept bog in North Kerry during “the Troubles”.

THE recent kidnappings of the three Israeli soldiers and the horrific repercussions have a haunting parallel with events in Tralee in 1920.

AT least five people were killed yesterday after a lorry slammed into a supermarket in the southern Netherlands and burst into flames.

At least five people were killed after a lorry slammed into a supermarket in the southern Netherlands and burst into flames, police said.