When it comes to tattooed “fighting Irish”, Conor McGregor is top of the tree. A trawl through his family background shows he didn’t lick it off the stones.

It was not by chance that Pádraig Pearse was the first rebel court-martialled and killed, writes Ruán O’Donnell

In 1979 I recall, as a young boy, being introduced by my grandparents to a friend who had an interest in CB radio and electronics.

Ireland’s largest trade union is to help fund a film about one of the rebels executed following the uprising against British rule in 1916, it announced today.