The first Catholic to captain Northen Ireland and the last man to shy away from a row, Martin O'Neill is poised to make his mark in the Premiership, says Ken Early.

Mickey Devine was the last to die. He left us after 66 days on hungerstrike. I met Mickey in the big cell that passed for a canteen in the prison hospital in the H Blocks of Long Kesh a month before he died.

A yeoman warder from the Tower of London, with a lot of time on his hands, has written the A to Z of execution.
By Neil Genzlinger

The "silly season" is thus called because of an alleged dearth of news, but very often this makes little sense. Wars, disasters and calamities proceed regardless of the season, and there are plenty of additional events – sporting, cultural etc – to compensate for the closedown of parliamentary and jurisprudential activity.

RTÉ's Townlands provides a glimpse of a new way of living through sustainable housing, while Three 60 gives is a refreshing insight into the life of wheelchair-bound farmer

With her glossy red lipstick and sculpted hair, Iris Robinson, wife of Peter Robinson, is often likened to Cruella de Vil. But there is more to the DUP's only woman MP than a famous husband and immaculate coiffure. Interview by Fionola Meredith

The latest shift in the attack on the Irish language and the democratic rights of those who speak it has come with a demand for 'compulsory' Irish to be dropped in the legal profession.

Billy Leahy on Lars Arrhenius' entertaining show in Temple Bar

Alearned professor of law, Jerry White of Trinity College, was interviewed on This Week on Sunday (6 August) and asked his opinion on whether it would be constitutional for the government to ignore the results of the recently published provisional census and hold the next election on the existing constituency boundaries.

While BBC2 wheels out the usual retrospectives – looking back from the present and the future – Channel 4 proves that life is bizarre enough without imagining new realities