Despite IRA threats, fans turned up in droves to see Mike McTigue win world title in 1923

Hundreds of thousands of Irish soldiers returned home to a largely hostile country

Mapping the history of that most Irish of newspaper genres – the Sunday paper

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

A new book by Hugh Oram shines a light on these southside Dublin suburbs

Newspaper editorial praises minister for tackling Ireland’s ‘greatest menace’

Employer, who lives abroad, not able to afford cost of defending case, court told

Past shows Government not unpractised in contempt for those exposing wrongdoing

After a Churchill and Cosgrave meeting, a deal was done for Ireland to pay £5m instead of £156m

WT Cosgrave and son shared a deep commitment to parliamentary democracy

Mainstream politicians should embrace EU rules as a bulwark against disaster

From January 23rd, 2014 to her resignation, Garda commissioner faced controversy

Legislation’s author says it represents progressive step in Church/State separation

The British establishment lacked consistency while the Free State washed its hands

The series of events that turned another Garda scandal into a full-blown political crisis

So who exactly knew what, and when? And what has it got to do with the Government?

Up to €16,000 a month in rent was being collected from five-bedroom house

Court told balaclava-wearing man refused local authority official access to house

Staff survey and focus groups will used as part of modernisation programme

Former president Kevin O’Higgins received €110,000 for part-time role

Bracken, who was brought up in Ireland before turning up in Australia and Britain, spun fairy tales about his origins and rose to become part of the British establishment

The findings are likely to strip another layer of authority from the Garda as an institution

The challenge is to provide a contemporary response to the points addressed by Blythe in 1927 and Kelly in the 1970s

It is time to face up to the fact that we still have to make good on the promises of 1916

Pubs in Ireland have become much more expensive in the past few years

Analysis: Everyone who has been elected should play part in shaping the future Dáil

Cabinet agrees to extension to April 29th after commission was due to report next month

TD feels vindicated in stance taken on what he claimed was flawed selection convention

Legal adviser to Fine Gael ‘devastated’ at being unable to locate chain

TD ‘pleaded’ with party and Taoiseach Enda Kenny to add him to the campaign ticket

Young people are, by every measure, a marginalised group in Irish society

Maurice McCabe claims guidelines are an arbitrary imposition of financial hardship

After years of dismal employment prospects, new solicitor graduates talk about change in the air

During the Irish Civil War the National Army executed more Irishmen than the British had during the War of Independence. In an extract from his new book Diarmaid Ferriter documents this ruthless military strategy

Fine Gael pays portion of legal bills for TD in unfair dismissal case

Winston Churchill, who died 50 years ago on January 24th, 1965, supported brutal military actions in Ireland but also had great affection for the country. It was seldom requited

Michael Barry’s book presents 400 photographs charting the sequence of events of the conflict

Sgt McCabe went to Micheál Martin with his dossier after rejection by complaints office

Jason Knirck’s new book challenges the depiction of the 1920s as a period of political inertia

Conlan wrote to business owner telling of summons for employment tribunal case