Since the first one was installed, on Dawson Street in 1925, they have provided a social

As the date of the Rising rapidly approached, this is what was happening behind the scenes 100 years ago this week

How this week 100 years ago was spent by the main players behind the Rising, based largely on observations of their movements by police.

Newstalk’s former money doctor, who carried out a €109,000 life insurance fraud, has been given a four-year suspended sentence and ordered to perform unpaid work in the community.

Monaghan drivers dominate the weekend’s rallying landscape with the Moffett brothers Sam (25) and Josh (22) competing in tomorrow’s Plains Rally in Wales while Stephen Wright contests the Sezoens Rally in Belgium.

Wild about Harry’s

So this week, Esther N McCarthy prepares for a little teddy bear’s picnic outdoors, with colourful seating, great images and then it’s off to bed.

IT’S always the little guy who gets the attention.

AN art gallery closely associated with the works of the late Markey Robinson has failed in a bid to stop a sheriff selling a number of paintings to meet a judgment debt.

THE affiliated clubs of Motorsport Ireland are set to receive the Way Forward document, hot on the heels of the governing body’s General Code of Conduct contained in this month’s Motorsport Bulletin.

Ireland’s Grand Slam-winning rugby team will be greeted by fans at a homecoming reception to be held outside the Mansion House on Dawson Street, Dublin tomorrow at 4.30pm.

A CREDIT union suing stockbroking firm J & E Davy over €5 million losses allegedly suffered due to Davy’s advice to invest in certain perpetual bonds, may bring an additional claim that Davy failed to act honestly in not disclosing it was also the seller of some of the bonds involved, and had made “a secret profit” on their sale.

Online travel firm ebookers today unveiled its first full-year profit in 2003 and said that bookings made over the Internet rose by 70% in the first quarter of 2004, compared to the same period a year ago.