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

Parodies, non-existent aliens, Northern Irish politicians and Irish islanders occupy Dermot Bolger's TV week

The British government has yet to respond to the call by the Ulster Defence Association (UDA) on 13 November to begin talks with the group over its future, according to a senior figure within the organisation.

The media may replace the church as the "oppressive and arrogant force" it says religion once was, warns Bishop Willie Walsh. Journalists must be more successful at maintaining the value of their stock in the minds of the public they are there to serve, says Conor Brady

Three monologues about suicide. Not the kind of thing to get you to the theatre on a cold night. But this play is travelling to schools, where it should find an engaged and passionate audience for its sensitive storytelling, writes Colin Murphy