The Government cannot become complacent about the risk to more than 650 jobs at Aughinish Alumina in Limerick even though fears are easing about the Trump Administration’s targeting of its Russian owner Rusal.

A UCC student hopes to employ homeless people in Cork to make her sleeping bag invention, which she designed specifically for rough sleepers.

A 22-year-old man has been jailed for three-and-a-half years after he tried to smuggle five people into the UK hidden in cabinets in a van.

Many Cork and Irish lives were lost in the Battle of France, writes Damian Shiels

Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk (12A) is an epic tale of the greatest mass rescue of World War II, when 400,000 men of the British Expeditionary Force were left stranded and undefended on Dunkirk beach as the German army closed in for the kill.

Former One Direction singer Harry Styles has dispensed with his boyband heartthrob status to play a regular soldier in Christopher Nolan’s WW2 drama, Dunkirk, says Shilpa Ganatra.

Britain’s Prince Harry remarked on the “incredible life” of a Co Cork-born RAF doctor as he opened a medical centre in England dedicated to his memory.

Prince Harry is to name a new RAF medical centre in honour of a Cork doctor who was evacuated from Dunkirk and survived the atomic bomb drop on Nagasaki.

GERMAN-speaking army first lieutenant Paul Duggan is promoted to G2 Intelligence to investigate the activities of a German spy in 1940’s Dublin. 

Cork-based performer Wasps vs Humans (aka Carl Antony Plover) is starring in The Nearly Men which comes to Cork Arts Theatre on the evening of Thursday, June 1. 

Declan Burke takes a look at the latest films to hit the big screen

A blockade of lorries is causing chaos on the roads around Calais in a campaign for the Jungle migrant camp to be demolished.

French shopkeepers, police, unionists and farmers will today join hauliers in calling for the northern section of the migrant camp at Calais to be demolished.

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On World Refugee Week, Suzanne Harrington’s daughter took a trip most other teens wouldn’t. She volunteered at the refugee shanty town in Calais known as the Jungle.

Migrant children in northern France are forced into crime and prostitution on a daily basis to secure a place to stay in migrant camps or the promise of passage to Britain, the UN children’s agency said.

Ireland will accept dozens more refugees in the coming weeks ahead of an expected increase in migrants attempting dangerous crossings into Europe.

Irish freight operators have been warned to be on their guard as migrants move out of the so-called ‘jungle camp’ in Calais and try to get out of France via other ports.

The Port of Calais has been closed after around 50 migrants reportedly made their way onto a ferry causing a “security incident”.

Nigel Farage has said police suspected sabotage after a wheel on his Volvo fell off while he was driving on a motorway.

Victoria White’s opinion piece (Irish Examiner, 24 September) ignores several facts.

The stories of Irishmen who served in WWII are deeply moving says Geoffrey Roberts

The Irish Road Haulage Association says the Calais migrant crisis is having a detrimental affect on exports.

On the 20th anniversary of the closure of the ‘Irish Press’, Dave Kenny, who describes himself as a refugee from that newspaper, looks back at its last days, involving a sit-in, a new publication, celebrities, pints, booze, and pubs. The dispute was a breath of fresh air after years of stagnation

One hundred years ago this week chemical weapons were used for the first time, opening up a new chapter in conflict. Ann Cahill talks to some of the troops still cleaning them up    

JOHN P Quinlan is from Macroom, and founded the Vangard Gallery in Cork in 1991. He is in the midst of a nine-month stint as guest curator at Triskel in Cork.

While historians dissect the major events in the life of the nation, newspapers provide a living history — tracking and recording not just the headline news or the grand themes but also the everyday lives of ordinary people.

It is three years to the day that the war in Syria began. Sophie Magennis argues that Ireland has a role to play in alleviating the growing human cost of the conflict.

Myles Duffy (Letters, Febraury 26) misses the point. The Irish language has never been nurtured by the State.

Where a language is excluded from public or official business, that language goes into decline.

Highlights include Who’s Buying Ireland? and a discussion of pre-nups on Ear To The Ground

Corkman Adrian McCarthy wrote about the brutality of being a prisoner in Japan in WW2, says Carl Dixon

Almost 20 illegal immigrants were found hiding inside a truck bound for Dublin.

JOHN Stout doesn’t see himself as a hero but if courage, determination, and fortitude are the right ingredients then he is one of Ireland’s finest.

Queen Elizabeth joined a spectacular armada of 1,000 vessels yesterday for the most dazzling display of British pageantry seen on the River Thames for 350 years, watched by cheering crowds celebrating her 60th year on the throne.

Fierce storms battered Britain today with heavy rain and winds gusting over 100mph.

Border Agency workers at ports and airports across the UK will launch a two-day strike today in protest at changes to their shift patterns.

A DARING adventurer crossed the English Channel yesterday strapped in a chair beneath several dozen helium-filled balloons and landing in a French cabbage field.

ONE solitary plane took off from Shannon yesterday, while all flights in and out of Cork Airport were shut down.

It has already been transformed into an Oscar-winning movie, and now Ian McEwan’s widely-acclaimed novel 'Atonement' is to get the opera treatment.