Ireland’s status as a small open economy, and its dependence on external developments, is being brought into sharp relief by unfolding events.

75 years on, Ryle Dwyer examines the German spy landings that rocked the Dingle Peninsula and the British secret service.

Ireland’s Marriage Equality Referendum may have inspired thousands and thousands of people to come home to vote, but it also inspired a global hashtag.

Investigations are continuing into the air crash in Co Wexford in which two men were killed, Sam Allardyce has admitted the time was right to leave West Ham after the club confirmed his four-year reign had drawn to a close, Celebs tweet their love for Ireland following Saturday’s referendum results and Anthony Daly asks if people really think Clare’s number is up?  These are some of the latest and most read news stories on irishexaminer.com this morning.

Ah Ireland, you were doing so well!

ONE of the funniest things about the Siteserv kerfuffle is the public indignation that the votes of shareholders in a banjaxed, bust company had to be ‘bought’ for €5m, before its sale could proceed. Imagine that; buying votes! The very thought.

Sinead O’Connor has fanned the flames of a silent revolution in her advocacy of a Second Irish Republic. She has brought attention to the Constitution’s inadequacies and its many amendments.

It is too early, yet, to think about the literary meaning of the unexpected passing of poet Seamus Heaney nearly a year ago says Thomas McCarthy.

In 1943, the MV Kerlogue, carrying a cargo of oranges, defied the barbarity of war and risked being attacked to rescue 168 German survivors of a naval battle in Bay of Biscay, says Richard Fitzpatrick.

Kevin Curran (Letters, Feb 21) exhibits a clear creativity of capture and keen imaginative appraisal, as he sallies forth to defend the good name of the public service and the folk who serve therein.

ANTI-IRISH sentiment in 1970s Britain made its way to the Taoiseach’s office in letters written by British citizens disgruntled at the number of Irish immigrants arriving to work there.

The Blitz: The British under attack

THIS proposed visit by Queen Elizabeth II for autumn next year will coincide with the 150th anniversary of her great-great grandmother, Queen Victoria’s visit to Killarney in 1861.

RORY McILROY’S recent comment that he “looked forward to playing for Team GB” in the 2016 Olympic Games revived a controversy that blew up more than 50 years ago when a great Irish lady golfer withdrew from the Great Britain & Ireland Curtis Cup team because the blazer badge displayed only the Union Jack flag.

TODAY a memorial will be unveiled in Ventry to an incident that made international headlines 70 years ago. A German submarine, the U35, dropped off 28 Greek seamen at Ventry on October 4, 1939.

A senior Garda union today backed calls for an independent public inquiry into the murder of the first officer to die in the Republic during the Troubles.

I REFER to the front page article entitled “Shame of mentally ill people forgotten by State” (Irish Examiner, March 29).

IRISH shoppers are being forced to pay more than their British counterparts for the same items of clothing in leading high-street stores.

Bosses of BBC TV children’s show Blue Peter have apologised over the use of the Red Hand of Ulster symbol.

ALLEGATIONS relating to the fatal shooting of the first garda killed during the Northern Troubles raise the spectre of possible collusion by the State in terrorist activities as far back as the early ’70s.