Soldiers who fell during the First World War are being honoured collectively in name for the first time with a memorial wall in the Cork cemetery where they lie.

Jim Edwards’ Bar Restaurant,

New and established names feature at Dolan’s sale in the Rochestown Park Hotel tomorrow, says Des O’Sullivan.

The organisers of this year’s Corona Cork Film Festival are hoping to roll out the red carpet for Hollywood heartthrob Colin Farrell.

Troops will march into Collins Barracks in Cork tomorrow to mark the 90th anniversary of the handover by the British to the Irish Army of what was then Victoria Barracks.

PAINSTAKING work collecting all the records of the 2,265 men who fought with the Auxiliary Division of the Royal Irish Constabulary (ADRIC) finally helped identify the man who instigated the burning of Cork city 90 years ago today.

MY GRANDFATHER, Pat Harris, spoke proudly of marching to Macroom on Easter Monday, 1916, and of being arrested with Terence MacSwiney on August 12, 1920, at a meeting of the officers of Cork No 1 Brigade in Cork’s City Hall. But he never spoke about what the First Cork Brigade did in the two years that followed.

David Cesarani

IN a recent letter regarding the Dripsey ambush (Irish Examiner, July 22), Brendan Cafferty links the names of Mrs Lindsay and Fr Shinnick as people who decided to stop an ambush. And he questions why only Mrs Lindsay (a Protestant) was shot.

THE recently-opened museum at Collins Barracks in Cork gives visitors an interesting insight into the garrison’s history.

THE Dripsey ambush memorial committee in Co Cork is gathering memorabilia and would welcome the assistance of readers.

Ireland today mixed business with pleasure as the countdown to Rugby World Cup 2003 gathered momentum.

A British army captain has claimed that the soldiers who killed 13 unarmed civilians on Bloody Sunday in Derry would never have opened fire without provocation.

An RUC man who dealt with a complaint from a man arrested by troops on Bloody Sunday was himself murdered in a bomb attack almost a year later, the Saville Inquiry heard today.