It is hard to imagine that a remote, windswept part of Co Mayo was the setting for an event 75 years ago that changed the course of history.

A mother who has been refused the Carers’ Allowance after being forced to give up her job to look after her seriously ill daughter has pleaded with those forming the next government to adopt a more compassionate view of such cases.

A century-old document has revealed how the official weather readings for the capital are blank during the 1916 Rising.

The Normandy beach landings were deferred on the say-so of the Blacksod lighthouse keeper, and victory was assured, says Dan McCarthy