The Duke of Kent will make a three-day visit to Ireland next week, only the second formal trip by a member of the British royal family here since Queen Elizabeth’s two years ago.

Former High Court President and Attorney General Declan Costello will be laid to rest in Dublin tomorrow.

IRISH rugby captain Brian O’Driscoll shouldered the coffin at the funeral of one of his closest friends yesterday.

Tributes were paid today to the Inspector of Prisons, Mr Justice Dermot Kinlen, who died at his Kerry home.

The union movement honours one of its martyrs today as a special headstone will be unveiled in Deansgrange cemetery in Dublin at the grave of James Byrne who died while on hunger strike during the 1913 lockout.