Irish political giant Daniel O’Connell has been remembered as the Nelson Mandela of his day as the newest of London’s famous blue plaques was unveiled in his honour.

WHEN is sex illegal? That is, normal, consensual sex between adults? Sex that is an act of love, as part of a loving relationship? Never, I thought.

A Chinese government news portal has claimed that a woman in China’s remote far west is 127 years old, making her the oldest person ever to have lived — but experts raised questions over the supposed record.

Fatal Path: British Government and Irish Revolution 1910-1922

As soon as you are diagnosed with dementia, you need to take control of your finances and get legal advice, says John Hearne

It had certainly been a long time coming.

When he died 100 years ago today, the Irish writer had not received due recognition for creating our favourite vampire, says Robert Hume

IN the 19th century, British prime minister William Gladstone was eternally confounded trying to fulfil divergent Irish aspirations for self-rule while at the same time maintaining imperial unity.

A Co Carlow house owned by the family of 19th Century British prime minister Benjamin Disraeli could fetch up to €6m at auction today.

Taoiseach Bertie Ahern borrowed the words of Ian Paisley today to tell a republican commemoration that a settlement to the Irish question was at its closest for two centuries.

PRESIDENT Mary McAleese described her CV as now complete after being conferred with the Freedom of Cork yesterday.

Israeli nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu was tonight elected rector of a Scottish university.