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Denise Welch shared the photo on Twitter yesterday and we don't remember half of these people existing, to be honest.

There’s a famous scene around half an hour into the 1975 movie Jaws — the same year Eamonn Mallie began his career in journalism — where Quint (maverick actor Robert Shaw who lived the final years of his life in Ireland) announces his presence to the room.

Eamonn Mallie began to write and broadcast just as the contrived and gerrymandered anti-democratic structures of Northern Ireland began to shake to their very foundations

Clare man Gerry O’Brien has collaborated with artist and author, Tim O’Brien to write a book about his lengthy tenure at The Churchill Arms. Gerry headed to London at the age of 17 and ended up staying there for almost 50 years. Gerry got involved in the pub trade, eventually becoming Landlord of The Churchill […]

When he stood outside Áras an Uachtaráin he admitted: “It’s a bit of a shock.” Nine days earlier an item on RTÉ radio speculated that John Bruton’s career was over. Had it ended there we would have seen it as ending in failure.

For much of his three decades in Leinster House, Seán Haughey has shunned publicity and rarely, if ever, given interviews. The reason is simple.

From ‘handshake prevention’ to bringing about ceasefires, Chris Maccabe has done his fair share to take the gun out of Irish politics

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar paid tribute to his predecessor, who was an inspiration to him as a ‘beacon of courage’.

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar paid tribute to his predecessor, who was an inspiration to him as a ‘beacon of courage’.

The Bruton family, the Fine Gael party and former political rivals pay respects to ‘a decent man’ who ‘changed Ireland for the better’