The increase in traffic is not just on the roads. Irish airspace is filling up with helicopters, and regulations are thin on the ground.

Both the courts and the political domain have a role to play in addressing marginalisation, writes Donncha O'Connell

An EU report has ranked Ireland second bottom in paper recycling. The report showed that Ireland has yet again missed an EU environmental deadline, this time on the recycling of packaged goods. Although, we are not the only EU nation that has failed to implement the new EU law. Ireland recycles only 35 per cent of its waste. This compares to Austria which recycles 75 per cent of its waste; Belgium – 91 per cent; Denmark – 94 per cent; United Kingdom – 50 per cent.

A new "group" calling itself the Irish 9/11 Truth Movement has been bombarding TDs with emails, taking a stand outside the Dáil and being removed from the premises at RTÉ.

From the 1930s to the 1960s, women TDs and Senators continued to be either the widows or relatives of deceased members of the Oireachtas. During the final drafting of Bunreacht na h'Éireann (Irish Constitution) in 1936, there were only three women deputies in the Dáil. There were no women in the Seanad as it had been abolished the same year, 1936.

The Department of Social and Family Affairs has saved €206 million in anti-fraud measures during the first six months of this year. This is an increase of €30 million on the last six months of 2004. Savings in unemployment payments realised the most at almost €66 million; €52 million in one-parent family payments; €36 million in illness payments.

The government and gardaí have failed to implement the expansion of the Garda Central Vetting Unit (GCVU) in the eleven months since it was announced and promised, at that time, in a "matter of months". On 23 September 2004 Brian Lenihan, Minister for State for Children, announced the addition of 17 staff to the GCVU in order to extend vetting procedures to all persons working with children and vunerable adults. This meant the staff would almost double giving a total of 30 people working for the vetting unit.

Making a movie of the multi-million selling The Da Vinci Code is causing controversy and a sprinkling of holy water on the movie business. Sharon Waxman reports

In the past week the British media has been saturated with coverage of leaked documents showing a significantly different account of Charles de Menezes' shooting than that given in some police briefings and leaks to the media. Yet, the previous week in Village (12-18 August) a statement we published contained many of the same revelations.

After the Columbia shuttle tragedy it is essential that NASA get the Discovery trip right. It is also important for the future of the space programme in the United States writes Emma Browne