In an effort to distract myself from our end-of-days Trumpian hellscape, I have been doing two things all week.

It is hard to imagine that a remote, windswept part of Co Mayo was the setting for an event 75 years ago that changed the course of history.

A Brittany Ferries customer whose sailing to Cork was cancelled believes he was the victim of "shoddy treatment" after the company said it would not compensate him for the extra expense of travelling to another port to get home with a rival carrier.

A Brittany Ferries customer has accused the company of “screwing over” customers who will incur extra expense as a result of its decision to cancel sailings from Cork to France and Spain this weekend.

Almost 1,500 passengers have been hit by a ferry fault which has forced the cancellation of Brittany Ferries’ sailings from Cork to France and Spain this weekend.

Here are all the latest headlines this lunchtime...

Peter Dowdall on an Irish designer’s project to honour the memory of lives lost during the Great War.

Dublin and Wexford players have insisted they did not train on their recent trips to France and Portugal respectively.

Belgian cyclist Michael Goolaerts, who died aged 23 after suffering cardiac arrest during Paris-Roubaix, is a “great loss to cycling”, says former team-mate James Shaw.

A man suspected of sexually assaulting dozens of women over more than 20 years has been arrested in northern France.

Fittingly, for his new WWI movie, director Saul Dibb referenced such horror films as Alien, writes Esther McCarthy.

France wants to sign a new deal with the UK which would involve greater British financing of the costs of handling migrants camped in the northern French port city of Calais, authorities said.

A disabled teenager has been left covered with rat bites after they attacked her in her sleep in northern France.

Latest: A chemical cloud which forced coastline evacuations across East Sussex in England on Sunday is "very unlikely" to have floated over from northern France, authorities said.

The attack in Barcelona is the latest major terrorist outrage to hit Europe in recent years.

On the eve of her visit to Cork, Sally Rooney tells Colette Sheridan about the novel that’s become the must-read book of the summer

French voters are choosing politicians on Sunday in a vote that is crucial for newly-elected president Emmanuel Macron.

Latest: Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams has welcomed the news from the Independent Commission for the Location of Victims' Remains (ICLVR) today.

This is a tale of poverty, inequality, and injustice in 21st century France.

France's troubled wartime past is taking centre stage in the presidential race as centrist Emmanuel Macron visits a Nazi massacre site and Marine Le Pen's far-right party suffers a new blow over alleged Holocaust denial.

Protesters have clashed with police in Paris during a demonstration against both candidates in the upcoming presidential elections.

French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen has upstaged opponent Emmanuel Macron by making a surprise campaign stop to a home appliance factory.

Suzanne Harrington delves into the psyche of ’The Do Gooder’ to fin dout what they’re all about.

LATEST: Three teenage girls and an 18-year-old woman have been detained in different parts of France on Tuesday as suspects in attack plots, the Paris prosecutor’s office has said.

As of last week, just 69 refugees from Italy and Greece have been relocated here, writes Michael Clifford

British Prime Minister Theresa May has vowed that Islamist terrorists “will not prevail” in the wake of Tuesday’s murder of a Catholic priest in northern France.

Political leaders and military veterans are due to gather in Dublin tomorrow to commemorate the Battle of the Somme.

One hundred years ago in the poppy fields of Northern France, July 1, 1916, saw the single most hellish day of armed conflict, with the start of the Battle of the Somme.

One week after Britain’s vote to leave the European Union, British prime minister David Cameron and members of the royal family were standing side-by-side with France’s president to celebrate their historic alliance at the centenary of the deadliest battle of World War I.

French President François Hollande is to visit Ireland later this month, it emerged yesterday.

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.

Relatives of those who fought and died in the Easter Rising will not rule out taking legal action to stop a wall being unveiled at Glasnevin cemetery which commemorates the British army dead alongside their descendants.

Members of the public, and perhaps people facing deportation, are being targeted by a sophisticated telephone scam that extracts money.

A British former soldier who tried to smuggle a four-year-old Afghan girl into Britain at her father’s request has been cleared of all charges related to aiding illegal immigration.

Two people have been arrested on suspicion of helping provide guns to the man who attacked a kosher supermarket in Paris in January.

A D-Day veteran living in Ireland is to be bestowed with France’s highest honour on his 100th birthday.

A D-Day veteran living in Ireland is to be bestowed with France’s highest honour on his 100th birthday.