The violent events of Verdun, the Battle of the Somme and the Easter Rising, will be remembered in 2016, writes Richard Collins

All five Amish girls who survived last month’s school massacre in Pennsylvania that killed five of their classmates suffered severe gunshot wounds with long-term implications, a physician familiar with their medical treatment said today.

John Kennedy, director Cork 2005, says Cork has a golden opportunity to put itself on European cultural map.