McDowell vs Frank Connolly

A hell of a week

Irish honorary knighthoods

Declan Bree versus Pat Rabbitte

US Hegemony

Clarification: Vatican and rights of the child

Born in Spiddal, Co Galway, Gráinne Seoige was raised conventionally by her father, Mairtín, a Garda, and her mother, Phil. A native Irish speaker from Inishmahon, Phil raised her children in a bilingual household. Gráinne Seoige's sister, Síle, is also a television presenter, currently working with RTÉ and TG4.

Cost benefit analysis is important because it estimates all the costs and benefits of a project to society. According to Emma Browne in last week's Village (3-9 November) the Department of Finance told Village that under Finance Guidelines a cost benefit analysis of the runway proposal should have been done. Minister Cullen stated in the Dáil in June that the Dublin Airport Authority (DAA) told him it had conformed to the Guidelines.

Hope for small communities

Bret Easton Ellis's new novel is about an author called Bret Easton Ellis being haunted by characters he has created. So where does fiction stop and life take over? And is the writer of American Psycho a 'method writer'? He tells all to Nicola Reddy