Weblog: Final Words Projects gathers words of the dying, and finds particular patterns

Samuel O’Reilly’s invention made him famous and revolutionised the tattoo industry

GE remains a US giant despite exit from Dow Jones Industrial Average

The inaugural Vinyl festival, which takes place over the May bank holiday weekend, is a boutique event celebrating the golden age of stylus and disc

With Steven Sondheim’s ‘Assassins’ opening at the Gate, what drives the perpetrators. from Booth to Oswald to Hinckley?

Then there were those secular Freudian sanctifications of work as sublimated lust

The Dundalk boxer makes for a stunning chapter in Thomas Myler’s new book

Streaming services are eyeing the disgraced Weinstein Company’s valuable back catalogue

Irish connections: William Bourke Cockran represented the US all over the world but is barely remembered in his home county of Sligo

Tony Martin runner takes controversial path to festival feature after High Court ruling

Meath trainer believes top chaser has fully recovered form “horrendous” fall in April’s Punchestown Gold Cup

How many of season’s traditions took root in dear old Deutschland? Yule be surprised!

Favourite for Hatton’s Grace Hurdle could yet run in Newcastle Fighting Fifth Hurdle

Godolphin’s Emtionless a marginal favourite for the Dubai Dewhurst Stakes on Saturday

Legendary jockey returns to Tipperary looking for first Irish win in four years

Derby winner will bid to deny Treve an unprecedented treble in Longchamp feature

Book details how technologies that make the iPhone so ‘smart’ can be traced back to investment by the US government

First years should take advantage of all college opportunities, academic and social

Outcome a sweet one for jockey Denis O’Regan who won Plate on Ansar a decade ago

Shrewd trainer’s Galway fortunes have improved dramatically in recent years

Handicapper believes top rated hurdler has the form to topple reigning champion Jezki

Award for creation of energy efficient light source won by American and Japanese trio

Pattern performer and previous winner to make third appearance in Group One renewal

Owner JP McManus enjoys long-awaited first success in Galway Hurdle with hot favourite at Ballybrit

John Oxx’s star filly picked up an injury in Curragh Group Two

Samuel L Clemens dictated hundreds of pages of autobiography that ranged from the nonexistence of God to postal-service vagaries