Colm O'Gorman on his 24-year struggle to uncover the truth in Ferns

Readers should always look between the lines of any story published by our profit-seeking media and ask why it was it published before accepting the 'facts' allegedly reported in it, advises Eoin Ó Murchú

I've always liked Judy Miller. I have often wondered what Waugh or Thackeray would have made of the Fourth Estate's Becky Sharp.

Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny and justice spokesman Jim O'Keefe have given their backing to the PLUS campaign to let young asylum seekers stay in Ireland.

I t was radio and the Tribunal re-enactments that gave wings to Liam Lawlor, introduced us to the twists and turns of his mind, that absolutely dazzling narcissism that maybe, in the end, blinded some to the fact that here was a real human being. Ironically enough, it was radio this week that put him back into human form, brought his family, agonised and angry, into the picture and it was there too, on Today With Pat Kenny (RTÉ Radio 1, Monday) that Senator Mary O'Rourke, in sympathising with his wife, said "She'll be on the lonely road now, the road of widowhood.

Lana Pringle's Barm Brack

Aircraft used by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in the transfer of "terrorist" suspects did not seek authorisation from the Irish government for landings at Shannon airport.

While it was the 'Molloy factor' that got Noel Grealish into national politics, he's hoping that the 'Grealish factor' will keep him there. As a Government backbencher, much of his time is spent working on local issues. By Mary Regan

A lonely Daire O'Brien talks sport; Mary T O'Connor gets a hard time for her exposé
of bad behaviour in the Garda; Frame Two looks at the brutal reign of Ceausescu
and An Bathadh Mór reminds us of a hurricane in the west of Ireland in 1927

Martin McDonagh's play is rich in comedy and Tarantino-like violence, as funny as it is repulsive – but it's still thin drama, writes Colin Murphy of The Lonesome West