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A Cork-based freelance journalist has apologised for mistakingly describing Irish President Michael D Higgins as an “acknowledged homosexual” in an article written for US business magazine, Forbes.

The annual National Day of Commemoration ceremony to honour all those Irish men and women who died in past wars or on service with the United Nations, will be held in the Royal Hospital Kilmainham, Dublin, as well as at seven locations across Ireland on Sunday, July 14 at 10.30am.

A national day of commemoration ceremony, to honour those Irishmen and Irishwomen who died in past wars or on service with the United Nations, will be held at the Mayo Peace Park, in Castlebar, on Sunday July 14.

On Tuesday evening the Dail voted at second stage on the Protection of Life in Pregnancy Bill (2013). As expected four of our Fine Gael TDs (Peter Matthews, Brian Walsh, Billy Timmins and Terence Flanagan) very courageously voted against the Bill. Next week, I, too will vote against the abortion bill. More FG colleagues are expected to follow in the coming days.

The National Museum of Ireland, Country Life, Turlough in association the French Embassy in Ireland is delighted to present 1689 - 2012, The Irish and France: Three Centuries of Military Relations, an exhibition originally produced by Musée de l’Armée, Paris (the Army Museum, Paris).

Irish Aid is delighted to announce that 60 schools have now been selected for the regional finals for the Our World Irish Aid Awards 2013, and Claremorris National School and St Patrick’s National School Rathnamagh, Crossmolina have made the shortlist.

Pedestrian Safety is the theme for the UN Road Safety Week which takes place this week from May 6 to May 12.

He has shot presidents; he survived an air crash, and has worked on projects ranging from New Orleans in the US to St Petersburg in Russia within the last year.

The recent Oireachtas health hearings on abortion, held in January 2013, shed a lot of light on the question of whether abortion is needed to protect women’s health in Ireland.

Former president of Ireland and Mayo native Mary Robinson has been appointed UN Special Envoy to Africa’s Great Lakes region.