In true nerd style, I came across an interesting documentary the other night about trains and England, and how the rail network shaped that country in terms of commuters, building, culture, architecture.

Once the boss of a fearsome mafia clan, Marisa Merico took refuge in Britain and ended up in prison with Rosemary West. She tells Beatrice Borromeo about her time at the top of the ‘Ndrangheta and her new life as a stay-at-home mother

Land giveaways are rare in Ireland. Oliver Moore reports on the thinking behind octogenarian David Rowe’s decision to donate his entire five-acre holding in Co Carlow to a land trust.

THE sons of a cab driver who killed 12 people in a gun rampage across rural northwestern England described him as “the nicest man you could ever meet” yesterday, adding they were baffled by his crimes.

“YOU won’t see me again,’ Derrick Bird chillingly told a friend before embarking on a shooting spree across rural northwestern England, killing 12 people and wounding 25 others, including his mother, before turning the gun on himself.