Gardaí are to examine security camera footage from locations around Limerick city as they investigate an act of vandalism at the site of the 325-year-old Limerick Treaty Stone, which was defaced in blue paint overnight, David Raleigh.

When William crushed the deposed Catholic King James ll and his Jacobite army of some 25,000 men, the victory was celebrated with songs and prayers in the Catholic cathedrals of William’s allies — the Dutch, the Danes, and the Germans, writes Clodagh Finn.

FITZGIBBON’s book is an in-depth and fascinating account of William of Orange’s war against his father-in-law, the deposed James II, a Catholic, on Irish shores.

Ireland is to overthrow King James II, today - over 300 years after his death.

Road bowling was probably brought to Ireland by Dutch troops fighting for William of Orange and was once a common sport countrywide before being confined mainly to Cork and Armagh.

Gather round, kids: an Englishman is opening his storybook.

An elderly man believed to be taking photographs of a mural hailing Gerry Adams as a peacemaker has been assaulted.

The earliest known settlers in Co Cork were hunter-gatherers who lived near Fermoy more than 10,100 years ago.

For the first time ever, the Orange Order will not be permitted to parade through the Ardoyne area of north Belfast on July 12.

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THEY withstood the unwanted attentions of the IRA and well over two centuries of inhospitable weather, but statues of Oliver Cromwell and William of Orange in a Co Cork estate have fallen to a gang of thieves.

THE body of a 17th century pope who helped fund Protestant William of Orange’s invasion of Britain and Ireland is to be removed from the Vatican to make way for the remains of Pope John Paul II.

Police and Orangemen came under attack tonight as a controversial Twelfth of July parade was escorted through a notorious flashpoint in Belfast.

Armed riot police moved in tonight to remove nationalist protesters staging a sit-down demonstration ahead of an Orange Order march.

TAOISEACH Bertie Ahern’s historic address to both houses of the British parliament was a fitting climax to a remarkable period of progress and achievement in Anglo-Irish relations, which have never been stronger.

The new mood of peace and reconciliation in the North is in evidence today as the Taoiseach and Ian Paisley make a joint visit to the site of the Battle of the Boyne in Co Meath.

THE Scottish domination of New Labour in the UK (evident surely to even the most casual observer of the political scene) naturally raises the question as to who and where are the representatives of the English in the House of Commons.

TO anyone of a rational disposition, the sight of old or middle-aged men in bowler hats and orange sashes marching to commemorate a battle fought over 300 years ago seems absurd.

APPROVAL has been granted for a controversial section of motorway to run through a historic battlefield site tagged Ireland’s Gettysburg.

The Government is to spend another €15m developing the Battle of the Boyne site in Co Meath.

Rose Martin ambles around an Elizabethan-style home that comes with its very own ruins attached.