1.   Nobody would guess from that admirably impersonal account that Milton settled to write his first divorce only a few weeks after the bitter disappointment of his marriage.

2.   But it was six years before DRS mediated its first divorce.

3.   I had a wartime marriage, the first divorce in the family and no intention of a second marriage.

4.   Although the government promised speed, the privately funded Divorce Action Group estimated it would be at least a year before the first Irish divorce was granted.

5.   Ireland grants first divorce.

6.   Ireland recorded its first divorce Friday, though legislation permitting divorce and remarriage has not yet taken effect.

7.   The first post-referendum divorce has already been granted.

8.   The man who won the first divorce granted in the Irish Republic has died, a few days after he reportedly remarried.