Archaeologists at a Roman fort more used to finding coins, weapons and tools have found a 2,000-year-old perfectly preserved wooden toilet seat.

My life informs my writing.

Having rocked them in the Dáil, as the Sawdoctors had it, Michael D certainly rocked them in the Guildhall, and beyond, when he announced during his visit to London that he would be supporting England at this summer’s World Cup in Brazil.

The Ashes doesn’t just ask that you set one five-day or two-week stint aside, it demands you ring-fence just under seven weeks of your life.

Technology specialists behind the London 2012 Olympic Torch have arrived in New Ross to work on the newly built Emigrant Flame, which will be lit by members of the Kennedy family and the Taoiseach this summer.

This appears to lie in that murky grey area somewhere between sporting expediency and downright cheating

Popstar twins Jedward have announced a British tour – but this time they won’t be singing.

This fairly low-budget actioner takes as its basis the popular novel 'The Eagle of the Ninth' by Rosemary Sutcliff, a story set in Roman Britain which has become obscured by myth.

THE terrain and climate might be more suitable than was the case when the European titles were up for grabs in Spain last December, but Ireland’s 21-strong team will still be up against it when the world championships take place in Edinburgh tomorrow.

WHAT’S the first question you ask a man who has won everything?

IRELAND is the world’s friendliest country, and we have “a deliciously dark sense of humour”, according to a best-travel list compiled by guidebook company Lonely Planet.

SCOUSE poet Roger McGough once expressed the dilemma of the football fan who couldn’t decide where his loyalties lay on Merseyside: “I’d be bisexual if I had time for sex/‘cos it’s Goodison one week and Anfield the next.”

A RARE bronze vessel found by a group of metal detecting pals may have been a Roman soldier’s souvenir of army service at Hadrian’s Wall, experts say.