Sinn Féin’s Martin McGuinness has reiterated that he believes reconciliation is the next vital stage of the peace process.

Ulster Unionist MP Danny Kinahan has apologised for posting a photograph on Twitter which showed him standing in front of a Co Antrim bonfire with an Irish tricolour placed on top of it.

“It is the story of a vast superiority, sacrificed through stupidity, shortsightedness, and wanton insularity. It is a story of shamefully wasted talent, extraordinary complacency, and infinite self-deception.”

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.

Whatever happens on and off the field, the shape of the glass will have definitely changed by the time the green army transports itself north from Bordeaux morphing from wine glass to something broader and more frothy.

TAOISEACH Enda Kenny and Minister for Foreign Affairs Charlie Flanagan represented the Republic yesterday at Remembrance Sunday events in Northern Ireland.

One of the last surviving Irish D-Day veterans has dedicated the award of France’s highest honour to the lives of all those who took part in the landings.

One of the last surviving Irish D-Day veterans has dedicated the award of France’s highest honour to the lives of all those who took part in the landings.

Willie Mullins thinks Faugheen (pictured) has made "extraordinary" progress ahead of his latest big-race assignment in the williamhill.com Christmas Hurdle at Kempton on Friday

A young priest who heroically insisted on spiritually aiding the men in the trenches, or a nurse driving an ambulance with all hell breaking loose around her. These are some of the stories in the latest collection of books about World War One.

One of Ireland’s last surviving D-Day veterans has penned a poignant message to his fallen comrades after being forced to abandon hopes of travelling back for the 70th anniversary.

Queen Elizabeth and celebrities got the first look at this year’s Chelsea Flower Show, before the world famous gardening show opens its doors to the public.

The youngest Briton to fight in the First World War was just 12 years old — but Sidney Lewis’ identity remained a secret for almost a century until the chance discovery of faded documents revealed his extraordinary story.

There will be a five-day tour to the historic Somme area of France to visit cemeteries, memorials, museums and attend historical presentations this summer.

Need inspiration for your holidays in 2014? From city breaks to family getaways to adventure destinations, Isabel Conway has 10 of the best at home and abroad.

I MEAN, seriously? What’s it all about? First there’s the shopping.

Given the time that’s in it, perhaps the next time Enda Kenny jets off, cap in hand for his customary pat of approval from Angela Merkel, would it not be opportune to remind her, that over 60,000 Irish citizens were mercilessly slain in the killing fields of Flanders, the Somme, Ypres and the many other infamous locations at the hands of the German military in the two World Wars?

He’s been writing for 50 years but his work is as ambitious as ever. Ahead of his visit to Ireland, Thomas Keneally spoke to Richard Fitzpatrick about his latest novel

The Daughters of Mars

David Pipe is hoping the burden of top-weight will not harm the chances of Our Vic in the Peter Marsh Chase at Haydock tomorrow.

One of the North’s best known republicans, Martin Meehan, died today.

LAST September the villages of Ginchy and Guillemont in the Somme region of France joined to commemorate the courageous efforts and grievous losses suffered by the 16th Irish Division to liberate both villages from German occupation in September 1916.

OFFICERS wept, families traced the steps of fallen relatives and church bells tolled across northern France over the weekend to mark the 90th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme, one of history’s worst bloodbaths.

AS opposition leaders vied with each other to deliver killer one-liners, like would-be comedians at an open mike night, it was easy to believe that this Government has become one big joke.

GERALD MORGAN says we should commemorate “the heroic fortitude of the common soldier in the service of … Ireland …” in the Great War, and he commends Gallipoli to us if we cannot stomach the Somme (Irish Examiner, March 13).

DESPITE Rumsfeld's rousing speech in Baghdad ("you'll be proud to be American when you look back at this in later years"), troops are more likely to be remembered for the peanut butter war which demonstrated certain strange proclivities of the US female.

ON October 18 in the village of Longueval, Sommes, France, a dedication ceremony is being held to commemorate all Irish pipers killed during the Great War.

A former IRA commander has become the second high-profile Sinn Fein member to honour soldiers who died while fighting for Britain at the Battle of the Somme.