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Prince Edward will attend a ceremony to unveil a war memorial Cross of Sacrifice at Glasnevin Cemetery in Dublin next Thursday. Photograph: Pool/Getty Images
British royal to attend unveiling of Cross of Sacrifice in Glasnevin Cemetery

President Higgins will be accompanied by His Royal Highness Prince Edward, the Duke of Kent, for the unveiling of a war memorial Cross of Sacrifice at(...)

Windsor Castle: the repository of flags of Irish regiments in the British army which have not been seen in public since 1922. Photograph: Reuters
Ireland’s hidden colours

‘Hang up your brightest colours,” advised George Bernard Shaw after the death of Michael Collins. Both men would surely have relished this hist(...)

Christine Buckley. Photograph: Cyril Byrne
Those who denied the truth of Christine Buckley’s story, silent since her death

‘Hello darkness, my old friend. I’ve come to talk with you again . . .” You’ve been on my mind for four weeks now, like “a vision softly(...)

Minister for Health James Reilly: signed commencement order for Protection of Life During Pregnancy Act 2013 yesterday. Photograph: Brian Lawless/PA Wire
Abortion Act to become law from start of January

An order commencing the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Act 2013 from January 1st has been signed by Minister for Health James Reilly. The move wa(...)

Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore : “Apartheid was an issue in Ireland, Mandela was aware of it. He was also aware of Ireland’s own political struggle . . .” Photograph: Niall Carson/PA Wire
Mandela’s legacy a challenge for leaders, says Eamon Gilmore

World leaders attending today’s state memorial service for former South African president Nelson Mandela face a challenge in carrying forward his work(...)

Six of the President’s seven nominees to the Council of State have made a submission to the Convention on the Constitution asking that it consider the appropriateness of office-holders having to take religious oaths, including former Supreme Court judge Catherine McGuinness. Photograph: Eric Luke
Council of State calls for Constitution discussion on merits of religious oaths

Six of the President’s seven nominees to the Council of State have made a submission to the Convention on the Constitution asking that it consider the(...)

President Michael D Higgins id greets Seamus Heaney during the Irish Book Awards at the RDS, Dublin, in 2011. The president said yesterday: “The presence of Seamus was a warm one, full of humour, care and courtesy – a courtesy that enabled him to carry with such wry Northern Irish dignity so many well-deserved honours from all over the world.” Photograph: Brenda Fitzsimons
Heartfelt tributes flow for beloved poet Heaney

The funeral of Seamus Heaney, who died suddenly yesterday after a short illness, will take place on Monday in Dublin. He was 74.The death of the Nobel(...)

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