Image courtesy of www.runireland.com JERRY KIERNAN HAS died at the age of 67. The sad news comes from Irish athletics circles this afternoon, with tributes being paid to the distance-running…

Before reading the script for Richie Smythe’s The Siege of Jadotville neither Jamie Dornan nor Jamie O’Mara, had heard the harrowing tale of how 155 Irishmen deployed by the UN bravely fought…

1. Why was it called a Workhouse? A “House of Industry” for the employment and maintenance of the poor was a 17th-century English concept. The able-bodied were expected to work…