We’ve never been closer to the past. The continuing proliferation of online searchable material is making available to us all an ocean of information and artefacts from our past. 

Private cars could be banned from Cork City’s main street by the middle of next year under radical traffic plans due to be published tomorrow.

Morrissey has announced dates for his European tour.

If you believe the cavemen who scream “Mashed potatoes’, “Get in the hole’, “You the man” or “Baba Boey’ are headed for extinction under a new draconian security policy by golf’s tours, think again.

Private cars could be banned from Cork City’s main shopping street on a trial basis before the end of the year.

Cars will be banned from Cork's Patrick Street, while MacCurtain Street will revert back to a two-way system under new plans by the city council, today's Evening Echo reports.

Thick snowflakes fell in Rome today, a rare sight for city usually blessed by a temperate climate.

ONE of Cork’s great old cinemas is set to get a psychedelic facelift as part of a campaign to save it from dereliction.

WITH impending cuts impinging on the Arts Council’s funding of the ballet and the sudden realisation that the resulting cancellation of the Spring Tour means very little guaranteed employment over the next few months, I somehow got my priorities wrong and decided to risk the sacrifice of the games against City, Leeds, Ipswich and West Ham, on the altar of hopefully being able to afford all the other remaining Arsenal jollies.

AS long as the surface remains on the good side then Coliseum can land the nap in the www.thetote.com Maiden Hurdle at Tramore tonight.

The pope will meditate on the persecution of Catholics in China and elsewhere during a Good Friday procession at Rome’s Coliseum.

Italian riot police tonight used tear gas against anti-Bush demonstrators, disrupting an anti-globalisation protest in the centre of Rome.

Frankie Dettori is waiting to speak to Jeremy Noseda before making any decision about which horse he will ride in the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe.

Pope Benedict reflected on the suffering of Jesus Christ and that of humanity throughout the ages as he led thousands of pilgrims and tourists in a torch-lit, Way of the Cross procession at the Coliseum in Rome to mark Good Friday.

CORK’S Lord Mayor led tributes last night to an iconic city centre cinema which closes to the public today after almost 70 years in business.

Elton John will take the stage just outside the Coliseum in September, Rome officials said today.

I WISH to express my outrage at the Government’s plans to route the M3 through the Tara/Skryne valley. Photographs of the excavation site make it clear that the process is being carried out in a destructive and careless manner.

Two Italian sisters have returned a diary in which Paul McCartney wrote about the Beatles’ split in 1970, the star’s agent said today.

Paul McCartney may be forced to turn down the volume when his European tour reaches Rome – in case he wakes the Pope.

Sports Cafe has pressed on with plans to expand the brand despite calling time on one of only three sites currently trading.

Pope John Paul II heard confessions from 12 people in St Peter’s Basilica today, hours before a solemn procession at Rome’s Coliseum.