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MARK MASON HISTORY The Illusionist: The True Story Of The Man Who Fooled Hitler Rob Hutton W&N €36.50 [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

GERRY Adams admitted to Irish government officials he would not have acted to stop the London Docklands bombing, newly declassified files have revealed. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

GEORGE Bernard Shaw had his 'prayers answered' when an Eliza Doolittle-style maid was found for him just months before he died, newly-declassified files reveal. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

GEORGE Bernard Shaw had his 'prayers answered' when an Eliza Doolittle-style maid was found for him just months before he died, newly-declassified files reveal. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

GEORGE Bernard Shaw's prayers were answered when he found his very own 'Eliza Doolittle' just months before he died, newly declassified files reveal. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

PARKING zones across the country are to be inspected amid hundreds of complaints from motorists that they are being clamped without fair warning. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

THE National Transport Authority is under fire from Irish speakers for refusing to put fadas on people's names - with well-known Gaeilgeoirs lining up to criticise the State body. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

ITS concrete walls are thick enough to withstand a 500lb bomb and its massive steel doors were built to repel all Cold War intruders. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

ITS concrete walls are thick enough to withstand a 500lb bomb and its massive steel doors were built to repel all Cold War intruders. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

THE US feared the Russians could be plotting a Cold War spy base in a disused Cork dockyard, newly declassified documents suggest. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Mr Jones, assistant controller at the Westminster Bank, put down the phone in a puzzled mood. The conversation he'd just finished, with a mysterious man from the military, was most perplexing - could the bank release one of its clerks for special war work? In Jones' view, the man in question would be no great loss. Eric Roberts had been at the bank for 15 years since 1925, and had yet to distinguish himself. It wasn't just Roberts's career that was unremarkable. He had married a fellow clerk and they lived with their two sons in a semi-detached house in Epsom. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

IRISH motorists are literally throwing away tens of thousands of euro every year by overpaying road tolls on the country's motorway network, prompting calls for the 'unearned cash' to be donated to charity. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

GARDA immigration officers spent an average of almost €14,000 a month on luxury business class flights while returning home from deporting illegal immigrants from the country, figures reveal. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

fROM the moment I first played rugby, aged seven, on the beach in the south of France, I fell in love with the controlled aggression it allowed. Where else was I going to be permitted to deliberately knock over my younger brother and not get into trouble? [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

FROM the moment I first played rugby, aged seven, on the beach in the south of France, I fell in love with the controlled aggression it allowed. Where else was I going to be permitted to deliberately knock over my younger brother and not get into trouble? The love of the game put my medical career on hold and took me to 400 first-class games for Richmond in both the amateur and professional era, proudly entering into battle with the brother I had knocked over with joy all those years ago. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

FROM the moment I first played rugby, aged seven, on the beach in the south of France, I fell in love with the controlled aggression it allowed. Where else was I going to be permitted to deliberately knock over my younger brother and not get into trouble? The love of the game put my medical career on hold and took me to 400 first-class games for Richmond in both the amateur and professional era, proudly entering into battle with the brother I had knocked over with joy all those years ago. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

THE data watchdog is investigating the refusal of public bodies and private companies to properly spell Irish names after a TV producer being treated for cancer alleged a breach of EU rules. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

BRITISH officials wanted an 'urgent' meeting with EU officials after it emerged that Europe would likely drop daylight savings time - amid concerns that the island of Ireland could end up with two time zones. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

IRELAND has 208 border crossings, the first officially agreed count since the island was partitioned almost a century ago has found. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

GOVERNMENT officials from Dublin and Belfast are working together to definitively map out for the first time the number of border crossings on the island, it can be revealed. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

GOVERNMENT officials from Dublin and Belfast are working together to definitively map out for the first time the number of border crossings on the island, it can be revealed. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MET Éireann has got all hot and bothered over the names of several storms and has forced its UK counterpart to change them. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A PLAN in 1984 to suspend controls on new house prices, and angry exchanges between British prime minister Margaret Thatcher and then taoiseach Garret FitzGerald are among the stories to emerge from declassified papers to be published in the National Archives Office. The documents also include the musings of an Irish civil servant working abroad on an assignment, as well as details of secret talks the government was having amid growing concerns about cash-in-transit robberies. Neil Michael and Brian Hutton report. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

YESTERDAY Health Secretary Shona Robison made a significant announcement that she will run a national campaign to raise awareness of sepsis. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

RESTORING powersharing at Stormont will provide a strategic route to a united Ireland, Gerry Adams has said. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

ENDA Kenny's journey from obscurity to international renown was an unlikely one. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

THE party name is synonymous with the peace process in Northern Ireland - but the SDLP is facing a major crisis after losing all its MPs in an electoral wipeout. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

IRISH businesses selling and moving goods across the border or to Britain could face an additional €100 fee per journey, a customs expert has warned. Carol Lynch, a partner in the audit firm BDO, told the Oireachtas Finance Committee that the changes, post-Brexit, would come as a harsh lesson to many small businesses. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

GARDAÍ investigating international terrorism have arrested an Algerian man and another of Moroccan origin in what is believed to be related to Isis activity and money laundering. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

GARDA management is still determining whether disciplinary action should be taken over financial irregularities at the Garda Training College in Templemore - two years after Commissioner Nóirín O'Sullivan was first made aware of them. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A THIRD of all motorists killed in road crashes had been drinking, new figures show. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MARTIN Scorsese was in Dublin yesterday - where he warned that the world is walking into a scary time. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

CARDINAL Desmond Connell, the former Archbishop of Dublin criticised for his role in a Catholic Church cover-up of child sex abuse, has died aged 90. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

ENDA Kenny is confident the EU will not allow 'one of the most divisive borders in the world' to be reimposed on the island of Ireland after Brexit. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A RECRUITMENT website company is to create 500 jobs in Dublin. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

THEY are a dying breed in their native Kenya - but a baby bongo has just been born in Dublin. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

TWO major British companies announced plans to create hundreds of jobs in Ireland as a result of Brexit, in what was being hailed as a hopeful sign for the economy. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

TK WHITAKER, dubbed the architect of modern Ireland, wanted to be remembered simply as a civil servant who did his best, his funeral Mass has heard. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

TAXES should be slapped on Dublin's 35,000 empty homes as the number of rough sleepers in the capital soars, homelessness campaigners have said. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

FORMER taoiseach Charles Haughey insisted he wouldn't be joining any queue to meet U.S. president Ronald Reagan after Mr Reagan's inauguration. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

SACKING a prominent Belfast businessman from his role as a Nama adviser would have stoked political tensions in Northern Ireland, Nama's chairman has said. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A MAKESHIFT solar-powered houseboat has washed up on a beach in the West of Ireland after apparently drifting across the Atlantic Ocean from Canada. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

FOUR Irish World War I heroes were honoured by newly unveiled plaques during Armistice Day commemorations yesterday. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A US investment giant that pulled out of buying Nama's Northern Irish properties over multimillion-pound fixer fees has accused Nama of 'repeatedly mischaracterising' the botched deal. Pimco ditched its bid to buy the Project Eagle portfolio in March 2014 over concerns it had about £16million (€18.5million) in 'success fees'. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A TOP adviser to Donald Trump has warned a 'flood of companies' will leave Ireland under the president-elect's planned new tax regime. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

PRESIDENT Michael D Higgins has spoken out about people being insulted and demeaned by the social welfare system. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

DUBLIN Bus drivers have accepted a new pay deal, ending the threat of strike action. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

NORTHERN Secretary James Brokenshire made his first visit to Dublin yesterday where he refused to be drawn on whether Britain would pull out of the EU customs union after Brexit. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

THE North must be 'front and centre' in the Brexit talks, one of Ireland's most senior diplomats has told British parliamentarians. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

THE controversy over Apple's potential tax bill here hasn't stopped US health technology company Fitbit from announcing at the opening of its European headquarters in Dublin that it would create 50 jobs. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]