The intemperate attack on Sinn Féin launched by the Taoiseach Bertie Ahern during the week may well signal the beginning of the end of the peace process - a result that has been desperately sought by opposition politicians, journalists and PD Government ministers for some considerable time now.

We sat in a small café, opposite the prison, waiting for clearance from the authorities for our visit. El Modelo is situated in an extremely poor quarter of Bogota and the people around us represented the marginalised in this divided and dangerous country. Thousands have been displaced from the countryside.

Sinn Féin leader, Gerry Adams, gives his account of the meeting with Bertie Ahern

Just over four hundred years ago, on January 16, 1605, there appeared the first part of a text entitled The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha, supposedly based in part on an Arabic manuscript by a certain Cide Hamete Benengeli. This manuscript, of course, like its supposed author, never existed, as much part of the fertile imagination of Miguel de Cervantes as Don Quixote himself.

It begins with the belief that those who are different are in some way lesser beings. It continues with the infringement of their liberties, restrictions on their freedom of movement, the denial or removal of their rights, forcibly removing them from their homes, their campsites, confining them to camps and ghettoes and increased efforts to erode their human-ness by inflicting any number of small indignities, leading to ever greater indignities. Until finally one day, unfettered and unchallenged, bigotry and hatred proceed to the next level – extermination.

With fervent media backing, Pete Doherty became the latest rock icon. Was it through talent, old school rock 'n' roll excess, or just so a few hacks could get a slice of the pie asks Eoin Butler

The fall-out from the bank heist continues, but the North's biggest nationalist party are unlikely to find themselves out in the cold.
Suzanne Breen reports on developments since the robbery

The health services and the Garda are indifferent to missing non-national children. Emma Browne, Hilary Curley and Colin Murphy report

Figures show Shannon is becoming more important to the US war effort. By Colin Murphy

Like its food and music, Spanish wines can be fiery, interesting and with a rustic panache, which add happy alternatives to bland global manipulations of taste palettes aimed at pleasing the unadventurous.