Oh Stony Grey Soil of Montparnasse – Frank McNally on culture, curve-flattening, and carrying on in a crisis

Bittersweet surrender – Frank McNally on the Irishwoman airbrushed out of a wartime victory portrait

Defence Forces ‘in crisis’, can not guarantee security of State, rally hears

Almost 1,500 retired Defence Forces members march in Cork to call for better pay

Army was woefully unprepared for the Troubles, book states

Interviews with ex-officers reveal response was co-ordinated from one telephone line

Just how many Irish fought at the Battle of Waterloo?

Some 8,500 were involved, according to a serving Irish officer who studied the battle