When the Car of the 20th Century was named in 1999, voted on by industry experts, journalists and the public, the winner was so far ahead of its rivals, it almost lapped them, writes Jessica Casey.

One World Trade Center in New York City — rebuilt after the September 11, 2001, terror attacks — is to go green on St Patrick’s Day for the first time.

The management firm that operated one of the most popular tourist attractions in the country, Kylemore Abbey, posted retained profits of €1.6m last year.

The Moffett sibling rivalry is set to dominate Sunday’s Sepam Tipperary Stonethrowers Rally in Clonmel, following the late entry of the elder brother Sam.

In a week where the FIA announced changes to the World Rally Championship for 2017, the Irish Tarmac Rally Championship Organisers (TROA) were hit with a backlash to their proposed rule changes for 2016 — a ban on the current World Rally Cars from winning the series — with the announcement that the Donegal International Rally was withdrawing from the series.

One hundred years ago this week chemical weapons were used for the first time, opening up a new chapter in conflict. Ann Cahill talks to some of the troops still cleaning them up    

Kurdish forces in Iraq are investigating two other possible chemical weapons attacks by the Islamic State group, a top official has said.

The beautiful work of a famous Youghal glassworks is on display at an exhibition at the Crawford in Cork, writes Ellie O’Byrne

When he died on a WW1 battlefield Basil Maclear was an Irish rugby star and acknowledged by many of the early game’s greats

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Nobody knows exactly how many Irish died on Flanders Fields in the first world war because many got caught up in the British propaganda war after the Easter Rising.

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.

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Defending Tour de France champion Chris Froome became the second major casualty of this year’s race when he abandoned the race after a third crash in two days.

Defending champion Chris Froome has abandoned the 2014 Tour de France after a third crash in two days.

Defending champion Chris Froome was hoping to avoid any lingering after effects of his fourth stage crash as Marcel Kittel claimed a hat-trick of Tour de France wins in Lille on Tuesday.

The events sparked by the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife outside a Sarajevo delicatessen 100 years ago this morning have had a greater impact on our lives than any other event in the last century — even the one we will mark in 2016.

The leaders of the 28 EU countries took a few hours off bickering over who should lead the European Commission to remember the day, 100 years ago, when the First World War began, taking 16m lives in just four years.

Britain and Germany are expected to clash, at a summit in Ypres, over the presidency of the European Commission (EC) — Ypres is the Belgian town where the two countries battled during the First World War.

An Irish wolfhound taken from Dublin to the trenches is one of the forgotten heroes of the First World War, explains Robert Hume.

A new visitor centre has just opened in Flanders commemorating the 30,000 Irish soldiers who died in the First World War.

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.

Adam, Ahern, Black, Bolger, Brennan, Breslin — the names read like poetry under the Menin Gate. Molloy, Moran, Morgen, Mulvihill, Murphy, Murray — all buried in unknown graves in Flanders soil.

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?

ROLLING hills, scattered woodland and quaint towns known for their breweries in South West Belgium are the very picture of rural charm.

The route of the 2014 Tour de France, which begins in Britain, includes five mountain finishes and just one individual time-trial, organisers announced this morning.

The Daughters of Mars

Elevation to the Intercontinental Rally Challenge (IRC) series has raised the profile of the Donnelly Group Circuit of Ireland Rally.

It is 100 years since a little known music hall act wrote the song that became the marching anthem of the First World War, outlasting it to become one of the most popular songs of the 20th century, writes David Robson

PRESENTLY enjoying a fine debut season in his Skoda Fabia S2000, Dubliner Robert Barrable has received an official invitation to compete in the Barum Rally (August 26-28) in the Czech Republic, round seven of the Intercontinental Rally Challenge series.

Henry Allingham, the world’s oldest man, died today at the age of 113, his care home said.

AS a Corkman living in Belgium, I was delighted that the city’s lord mayor and groups from Cork attended the Island of Ireland Peace Park in Messines, Belgium, on Tuesday last — Remembrance Day.

YET again Europe was in the throes of war. Volunteers from every street and parish in Ireland died in their thousands.

Belgians marked the 87th anniversary of the end of the First World War today, with sombre ceremonies planned at the nation’s tomb of the unknown soldier and the playing of the Last Post at the famous Menen Gate in the town of Ieper, which saw some of the fiercest fighting of the “Great War”.

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.

FOR the first time in almost 40 years, I visited Charles Fort on Saturday, September 13, and was very much surprised to see not only the well run military displays and reenactments but a truly beautiful and well preserved fort.

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.