William Butler Yeats, one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature, died on this day in 1939. Editor's Note: Yeats was a pillar of the Irish and British literary establishment and in his ...

Mary Butler and Dara Calleary are being tipped within the Fianna Fáil party as the most likely junior ministers to be promoted by incoming Taoiseach Micheál Martin next week. In Fine Gael ...