Cringeworthy historical cosplay
Battle of the Boyne
This is an entirely solvable problem – if Brussels would only commit to solving it, rather than trying to outdo itself on maximising the number of new regulations it passes each year.
Silence the truth-tellers
In the US Supreme Court, an unexpected champion for common sense emerges.
This day 103 years ago – 8 June 1917 – an explosion in a copper mine in Butte, Montana, resulted in the death of 168 miners.
Finding what is authentic
Ó Néill was a Gaelic Irish soldier and one of the most famous of the O’Neill dynasty of Ulster in Ireland.
Such an exemplary attitude should be admired and imitated by all artists.
TERRY McMAHON on the death of his mother: “It was a Saturday when they told us she wouldn’t make another day and it was time to say our farewells.”
“The Presidency should be a source of national ambition.”
Far from being censured for the massacre, Duff upon his arrival in Dublin the following day, was feted as a hero by the British establishment who honoured him with a victory parade