Michael Collins and Arthur Griffith expected a 28-county Irish State

The negotiators believed Tyrone and Fermanagh would pass to the South

Boris Johnson baptised Catholic and cannot defect from Church, says canon law

First two marriages of Britain’s first Catholic prime minister not seen as valid by Church

Breda O’Brien: Joe Biden is not a ‘seamless garment’ Catholic

We have not advanced as far as we like to think in terms of religious tolerance

Phibsboro Philharmonic – Frank McNally on a famous Dublin musical family

How Dev almost lost the 1966 presidential election

FG blue blood Tom O’Higgins’s campaign nearly derailed Éamon de Valera’s Áras run

Ian Brady: Moors murderer who expressed no remorse

Described killing and torture of five children with accomplice Myra Hindley as ‘petty’

Ian Brady: Moors murderer who never expressed remorse

Described killing and torture of five children with accomplice Myra Hindley as ‘petty’

Journalist who led the field in horse racing

Valentine Lamb: January 21st, 1939 - April 24th, 2015