POLICE have appealed for information after a house in Co. Down was targeted in an arson attack. The incident took place in Kilkeel in the early hours of this morning, causing severe damage to the ...

Arctic explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton was born on this day in 1874 in Co. Kildare. Shackleton was the son of a privileged Anglo-Irish family originally from Yorkshire. At age 16, he left school to go ...