Violent images evade censorship; cracking a pornography ring is documented on Chain Reactions... and Big Brother is hardly worth a mention. By Dermot Bolger

Last week's Irish Times tns-MRBI poll has sent shock waves through the Fianna Fáil backbenches, with loud complaints that the party leadership is out of touch with them and the party grassroots organisation, and that the link with the PDs is doing serious damage to the party.

In 2004 Ken Barrett was given the impressive-looking sentence of life imprisonment for the murder of my father, Pat Finucane, with a recommendation that he serve not less than 22 years. It was entirely predictable he would serve only a fraction of that sentence – as it happened, less than three years. But that is of no consequence to the larger issue involved in the murder of my father.

Six members of the family of Terence Wheelock, who died having been in Garda custody last year, claim to have been assaulted by gardaí at their home on 17 May. Scott Millar hears their account of what happened

One of the mysteries of the modern world is the intense personal sympathy many people seem to have for the stingy, crabb...

Missing files, altered registers, suspicious removal and returns of charts. All were part of a conspiracy of obstruction encountered during an inquiry into Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda. Gardaí may open a new criminal investigation based on the findings. Sara Burke reports

In the Sunday Independent of 21 May, Gene Kerrigan pointed out that the leaks of the Tribal Secta reports into the health service, which were reported as front page news by the Sunday Independent on several occasions, were misrepresentations of the whole truth.

Activist, architect and editor turned broadcaster, Marian Finucane's gravelly voice is gaining radio listeners for RTÉ on weekend mornings. Profile by Colin Murphy.

The granting of a national radio license to NewsTalk 106 is the most interesting development in Irish radio since the in...

The audience loves this couple of hours in the company of a resident of St Conal's mental hospital, but Colin Murphy feels left out