How Marie Farrell claims she was induced into falsely identifying Ian Bailey as the person she saw near the scene of the murder around the time of the murder.
By Vincent Browne

Almost 1,000 people die in road accidents and from suicide each year and yet there is no sense of crisis or urgency

The recent controversy over the computer systems in the Health sector relates to a mere fraction of the wastage of public funds. Here we catalogue some of the more glaring instances of massive wastages, taken in the main from reports of the Comptroller and Auditor General, John Purcell. By Vincent Browne

Frank Fahey, while Minister for the Marine, bent the rules on the registration of fishing boat capacity to the advantage of only six applicants to a scheme, while excluding a family that had lost a father and son at sea. By Vincent Browne

Following a 13-week break, the Dáil returns to a circus of trivia and posturing, while major issues remain ignored

We now also facilitate the gross abuse of the human rights of suspects who are abducted and tortured

Ruairi Quinn's autobiography unwittingly shows how the pressures of modern politics and public office determine agenda at variance from initial ambitions

On 20 March 2003, the Dáil passed a resolution authorising the government to make facilities in Shannon available to US forces pursuing hostilities in Iraq. The terms of the resolution raised questions at the time but even more so now, in the light of information that since has become available.

Vincent Doyle walks away with at least €6m (or the equivalent in share options) from the editorship of the Irish Independent, having been there 23 years. And few of his colleagues will begrudge him the windfall. He has been one of the towering figures in Irish journalism for a generation, very different from the likes of Douglas Gageby and Conor Brady, former editors of The Irish Times, but nonetheless hugely influential.

The assertion by General de Chastelain on Monday (26 September): "We believe that the arms decommissioned (by the IRA) represent the totality of the IRA's arsenal".