On Thursday May 5 1983 big ignorant John Feeney wrote a story in the Evening Herald which had no basis in fact.

It was about fice to ten on Radio I and Mike Murphy had just about finished interviewing Brendan Grace. There was the sound of a door opening and Grace asked Murphy if this was the coffee. "No." said Murphy, "it's the Fish Market Report. "

The interview ended and the Fish Market Report began with an account of fish and where fish had been caught and in what quantities. Cod was plentiful.

The day the gas pipeline started going through his land, the story goes, the farmer got an idea. He began by saluting the men who were working on the line, then he began talking to them and buying them drinks in the local pub. His wife brought them out tea. But it took him a while to raise the subject.

Some say it's the factory, some say it's not. But the animal deaths, the human illnesses, the rumours continue- and the fears. By Colm Toibin.

In Brian Bourke's recent exhibition at the Taylor Galleries in Dublin there are nearly forty paintings and drawings of his wife Jay Murphy. Most of them are entitled "Portrait of J with a Basque Hat" and in these Jay Murphy is wearing this extraordinary hat. She's wearing it again and again all over the walls of two rooms of the gallery. Everywhere you look, she's wearing it. The show at first looks very funny; Brian Bourke has made her face into a caricature of itself, almost a cartoon.

Colm Toibin got on the anti-abortion bandwagon and travelled with it to its candle-lit march.