Boney M lead singer Liz Mitchell, who lives in Henley, Oxfordshire, performed an astonishing version of Rivers of Babylon at a Westminster ...

Following an ESB repair crew around Cavan on Thursday, as it laboured to reconnect power after last week’s storm, I found myself thinking of Wichita Lineman. Jimmy Webb’s great ballad of 1968 ...

Probably the most influential MP for Trinity, however ... Hit (and miss) parade – Frank McNally on the mixed fortunes of a who’s who list from 40 years agoOpens in new window ] That was ...

In a second-hand bookshop recently, for a tenner, I picked up a copy of Maureen Cairnduff’s Who’s Who in Ireland – the Influential 1,000, published just over 40 years ago for Christmas 1984.

Not for the first time, all those red wind warnings had me imagining air conditions of that actual colour spreading across Ireland. But then again, long before Met Éireann started talking about ...

Unfortunately, suggests the Violet Needham Society, the author instead inherited her appearance from a grandfather who was MP for Armagh in the 1820s and who once described his own features as ...

Former Johannesburg council speaker Colleen Makhubele will be sworn in as a member of Parliament representing the uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) Party. Makhubele, a former Congress of the People (COPE ...

“Anne Frank the Exhibition” recreates the secret annex in Amsterdam where Anne Frank and seven other Jews hid for two years. This is the reconstruction of the room she shared with Fritz ...

A reader named Cian Flaherty (at least I think it’s Cian – the handwriting is ambiguous) has requested the Diary’s help with an unusual problem. It’s a sort of mercy mission on behalf a ...

Picture: Neil McCartney African National Congress (ANC) secretary-general Fikile Mbalula said he would not be shocked if the party persuades former Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) MP Mbuyiseni ...

MP Teacher Recruitment 2025 for 10758 Vacancies: The Madhya Pradesh Staff Selection Board (MPESB) has released the recruitment notification for the post of Secondary Teacher (Subject) Secondary ...