British, French, and German leaders and bureaucrats realised after World War II that only an economically stable ‘United States’ of Europe would guarantee peace, says Kyran Fitzgerald.

Former AC Milan defender and Italy coach Cesare Maldini has passed away at the age of 84.

Seventy years after his speech on the Cold War, Churchill’s words still linger writes Geoffrey Roberts.

As an Irish exile in Trieste and Paris, James Joyce considered the matter of an Irish insurrection in detail. He kept in touch with Ireland mainly through Arthur Griffith’s United Irishman and Sinn Féin newspapers.

Nairo Quintana plans to target the 2015 Tour de France after celebrating victory in the Giro d’Italia yesterday.

THE 100th anniversary of the publication of James Joyce’s short-story collection, Dubliners, is marked this year by an iPad app dedicated to its famous coda, ‘The Dead’.

IRISH writer Julian Gough, who satirises our banking crisis in his witty novella, Crash! How I Lost A Hundred Billion and Found True Love, says living in Berlin gives him perspective on home.

European insurers are expected to report mostly lower quarterly profit over the next two weeks, weighed by falling stock markets, Italian earthquakes and British floods.

A Dublin business which once employed James Joyce as a sales agent is closing its doors for good this evening — ironically on Bloomsday, when Joyce is remembered on an annual basis.

Juventus last night won their first Serie A crown since 2003 as a Diego Milito hat-trick sunk title rivals AC Milan.

Richard Fitzpatrick looks at James Joyce’s short story collection, Dubliners, the focus of the One City, One Book festival in the capital

A calm James Cameron recently broke his own record with the world’s deepest solo submarine dive, plunging 5.1 miles (8.2km) in the Pacific Ocean near Papua New Guinea.

Italy’s government has vowed that its new austerity package will slash the country’s huge bureaucratic costs, with thousands of jobs and local elected posts being gradually eliminated.

IRISH diplomats in Saudi Arabia smuggled in alcohol concealed as furniture to dodge the Islamic state’s drink ban.

United Nations secretary general Ban Ki-moon said key parties trying to promote Middle East peace would meet in Italy later this month.

LEE Travel has teamed up with UK-based agency Enjoy Travel to present Craic on the Cruise, Ireland’s only Floating Fleadh!

Ryanair have announced nine new routes from its Frankfurt Hahn base.

Storms across Italy left St Mark’s Square in Venice more than a four feet under water today, delayed flights and snarled traffic.

Love letters sent by James Joyce to his wife are expected to sell for thousands of euro when they go under the hammer at auction in London today.