Des O’Sullivan reports on the wealth of 1916 memorabilia coming up for auction prior to the centenary.

Recently, as the anniversary of Michael Collins’s death approached, a man decided to end his life in a fashion too horrific to detail here. The action was shocking but the outcome has become a commonplace in modern Ireland; suicide is now running at over 50% pre-crash levels.

A silver box presented to one time Free State leader W. T. Cosgrave when he visited the PJ Carrolls factory in Dundalk in December 1926 is being handed over to the National Museum this evening.

The head of the Irish Air Corps made a dawn flight today to mark the 75th anniversary of the first east-west crossing of the Atlantic by air.