In a week when Gordon Brown was alleged to have said to Tony Blair: "I would not believe a word you say to me", Bertie echoed the same sentiments to Gerry Adams. The continued denial by the republican movement of involvement in the Northern Bank heist is typical of the choreography and bare faced cheek we expect from Sinn Féin – the Arms and Armani party.
This week, the Chilean judiciary ruled that former dictator Augusto Pinochet should be tried for kidnap and murder. It may help the country to deal with its horrific past, writes Martin Mullins.
While anguished questioning is inevitable in these cataclysmic circumstances, we should keep some historical perspective, and not leap immediately to the denial of God. Huge natural disasters have happened in the past, and they will likely also occur in the future. We live in a world that is as precarious as it is wonderful, and where the delicate balance of natural forces that generally work to provide a congenial habitat for us sometimes slips, to let us see the chaos, the volcanic magma, that lies not far beneath earth's crust.
Laura Noonan reveals further criticisms of the Heritage Tax Scheme, under which wealthy people donate heritage items instead of paying tax and then get publicly thanked for it
It's the new Sex and City but with double the ratings and it has just arrived on Irish television. Emma Browne examines the phenomenal success of Desperate Housewives
The seventies. Flares, dope and free love? How about strikes, low wages and high prices. Damian Corless investigates
Vitali Vitaliev is traumatised by ghosts, ghost tours and phones that go ring in the night.
The well-worn tourist trail that leads from Bangkok to the islands is best avoided in place of the wonder of Kanchantaburi says Emma Browne
To put the record straight, my childhood Christmas memories are non-existent, and the reason is simple: in the Soviet Union, where I grew up, we were not allowed to celebrate it. Instead of Jesus Christ's birthday we were supposed to celebrate Lenin's on 22 April.
An Óige is closing and selling eight of its hostels in counties Cork, Kerry, Wicklow, Galway, Donegal and Wexford, because of its "precarious financial position" according to a letter issued on 21 October to the managers of the hostels to be closed.