In the fall-out of inaccurate media reportage of the circumstances surrounding the death of Liam Lawlor, the issue of a change in the law so that there is a right to one's good name after death is being discussed again. Conor Brady reports

Serve local farmhouse cheeses as a simple dessert over the festive season or use them as ingredients in delicious soufflés.
Darina Allen tells you how

Maureen Dowd's new book Are Men Necessary? is causing chaos in post-feminist America. The woman with the red dress is not qualified to critique a topic as complex as the relations between the sexes, writes Kathryn Harrison

By almost any objective criteria, school league tables are a bad idea. They are not comparing like with like, they can quickly give a school a bad name, and they do not reflect on the real miracles going on every day in schools around the country. All the same, I – like most other people – love them.

Roy Keane is a traitor he wears a traitors ha' He coulda stay in Sai-pan bu' he din't fancy da'

Gerry Adams has been holding a series of private meetings with ordinary unionists in recent weeks. Here he writes for the first time about these meetings; about their anger, their willingness to talk and listen and their sense of abandonment by London

Jerusha McCormack reports from China on beer, weather and Beijing Zoo, where the crowd isn't watching the animals.

Enda Kenny rejects the front cover and lead story in last week's issue of Village

A vegetarian, born-again Christian who doesn't drink, Rhonda Paisley would really like to be a painter. Her action against the DUP is not about 'Paisley versus Paisley', but about women's struggle for positions within the DUP. By Susan McKay

This week, it's incest, war, torture and patricide. Colin Murphy reviews the Irish premiere of a play about a family exiled from Pinochet's Chile, Blood