They smashed stereotypes, changed Ireland – yet many are forgotten by history

London Briefing: Revelations of role in South African elections ruin top firm’s reputation

Irish Infrastructure Fund expects to close broadband firm deal by end of 2017

Attempt to broaden Blarney’s appeal sees launch of heritage trail and map

The video of the black man’s death last summer sparked days of protests in Baton Rouge

For the Irish, silence is a way of dealing with, and surviving, traumatic exile

Daniel O’Connell, Charles Dickens,Michael Collins, Maureen O’Hara among past guests

Auction also includes antique clocks and timepieces collected by the late Michael Guerin

First ‘scriever’ Hamish MacDonald says Scots ‘deserves and needs to be celebrated’

Michael Slager faces trial over shooting of unarmed black man in North Charleston

Body of Walter Scott carried in flag-draped coffin past crowd in South Carolina

Family of South Carolina victim suggest charges only brought because of video evidence

US police

Poetry review

Toddler shot in mother’s arms among rising dead researched by broadcaster Joe Duffy

The Scottish capital had moved on from haggis and fish supper, finds Susan Stellin

e|net plans to offer internet access to half the planet who don’t have it in a cost-effective way

e|net has delivered internet access to 94 urban areas in Ireland