15+ hour, 32+ min ago  (265+ words) A new clip for the WWII thriller Pressure sees Irish stars Andrew Scott and Kerry Condon in the thick of the drama in the run-up to D-Day. The film will be of particular interest to Irish viewers, as Condon portrays…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago  (402+ words) Hollywood star Tom Hanks has said it is hard to imagine how people were "held in stasis for an undefined amount of time" during the Second World War, as he discussed his new role as the narrator of a documentary…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (710+ words) Below the waves off Germany's northern tourist beaches, a toxic time bomb lurks on the Baltic Sea floor - enormous quantities of World War II munitions that are slowly rusting away. Scientists warn that as salt water corrodes the metal casings…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (231+ words) At the height of the Cold War, a group of Jewish housewives and activists in London, Dublin and elsewhere took on the USSR in defence of the rights and freedoms of Soviet Jews " and won. Filmmaker Aoife Kelleher, whose new…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago  (532+ words) A British Army officer killed in a training incident took up his call "to serve the common good of humanity", mourners have been told at his funeral service in Co Roscommon. Captain Philip Gilbert Muldowney, aged 25, died on Sunday 25 January…...

4+ mon, 3+ week ago  (196+ words) A 470kg World War II aerial bomb was safely removed from a construction site in a central district of Serbia's capital, Belgrade, police said. The US-made AN-M44 bomb was used during Allied air raids on German positions during the liberation of…...

5+ mon, 1+ day ago  (341+ words) Opinion: Frank Capra's masterpiece remains a Christmas classic because the film still speaks to many to us at this time of year When you sit down with your RTE Guide this Christmas, it won't take long before you spot It's…...

9+ mon, 3+ day ago  (365+ words) Britain's last surviving World War II Victoria Cross (VC) recipient has died aged 105. Flight Lieutenant John Cruickshank, from Aberdeen in Scotland, received the VC for bravery during an attack on a German submarine that left him seriously injured. A total of…...

9+ mon, 1+ week ago  (382+ words) Twin cathedral bells rang in unison in Japan's Nagasaki for the first time since the atomic bombing of the city 80 years ago, commemorating the moment the atrocity took place. On 9 August 1945, at 11. 02am, three days after a nuclear attack on Hiroshima,…...

9+ mon, 3+ week ago  (245+ words) Russia has said a major annual navy parade had been cancelled for "security reasons", without specifying the threat or concern. "It has to do with the general situation. Security reasons are of utmost importance," said Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, quoted…...