Ireland's last sugarbeet manufacturing facility closed on 12 May. The winners and losers in this political/business drama are clear.

There has been phenomenal growth in overseas travel from Ireland, and in traffic through our airports, in the last 20 years, led by the low-cost 'revolution' in air travel and fuelled by increased disposable income. There are now direct flights to more than 250 destinations worldwide from Irish airports. Last year, almost 30 million passengers passed through the four main airports, Dublin, Belfast, Shannon and Cork. Here, we list every destination you can fly to from the main airports. The number of destinations you can fly to from Dublin has doubled in the last ten years, from 60 to 129.

John Nichols looks at the influence of the late John Kenneth Galbraith, the greatest public intellectual of the second half of the twentieth century.

The Ireland-Palestinian Solidarity Campaign's (IPSC) unquestioning adherence to the Palestinian narrative as regards the Middle East conflict has led it to lend its support to a number of unsavoury characters over the course of its four-and-a-half year existence. For example, it generally defended the irredeemably corrupt arch-terrorist Yasser Arafat while it championed as his successor Marwan Barghouti, sentenced to five life terms for his murderous role in the second intifada.

A council tenant from the Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown area whose house went on fire last October still does not know when she will be able to return to her accomodation. She is currently living in unsuitable temporary accomodation – there is no cooker – with her 12 year old son. She is six months pregnant. No repair work has begun on her house yet.

In 1919, two years after his Declaration offering European Jews a "national home" in Palestine, British foreign secretary Arthur Balfour asserted that "Zionism... is rooted in age-long tradition, in present needs, in future hopes, of far profounder import than the desires and prejudices of the 700,000 Arabs who now inhabit that ancient land..."

The constant topic of political discussion in the North is how to get a power-sharing Assembly up and running again so that local politicians can have a say in government decisions. But if they really want their hands on the levers of power, they should forget the Assembly and apply for jobs with Price Waterhouse Coopers. The pay's better. There's no need to tramp the laneways and dangerous boreens looking for endorsement from the public. Plus, there's lashings and leavings of food and drink, trips to the opera and tickets to concerts by the Corrs.

A senior Catholic Church officer withheld relevant information concerning the alleged abuser of Peter McCloskey, the Limerick man, who committed suicide on 1 April last and who, allegedly, was abused by a priest of the Limerick diocese in the early 1980s.

We list 111 of the 125 people who have died on the roads so far in 2006, including the 20 non-nationals who have died

Having claimed on 9 April that his 'revelations' concerning Patrick Holland were a 'world exclusive' and a 'bombshell', Paul Williams acknowledged on 16 April the 'world Exclusive' 'bombshell' was neither a world exclusive nor a bombshell. By Vincent Browne