Tensions within the Ulster Defence Association (UDA), the largest paramilitary group in the North, reached crisis point this week with senior members making a bid to oust Andre Shoukri, leader of the north Belfast wing of the group.

Every family has one. A new series, Black Sheep, profiles the eccentric in various Irish families, starting with a 17th-century Quaker from Waterford, who may have been the illegitimate son of Henry VIII

Enda Walsh's new play closes at the Helix in Dublin on Saturday 15 – go see it, advises Colin Murphy

A decision by the Supreme Court last week cleared the way for the Dublin Rock Consortium, otherwise known as Phantom FM, to hit the airwaves. Following an appeal by rival radio station Zed FM, the court dismissed all grounds for appeal and upheld a previous High Court decision to award the Dublin-based alternative rock radio station a broadcasting license.

Community activitists and residents in Dublin's south inner city have been successful in their efforts to regenerate the local area. Its designation as a deprived community has brought in State resources but more are needed to address the poverty and inequality experienced by those who live there. Rory Hearne reports

The Rossport Five are due in the High Court on Friday 7 April to hear whether or not they will be punished for disobeying the court in 2005. The five men were jailed last June at the request of Shell E&P Ireland for refusing to undertake not to obstruct the laying across their land of the Corrib Gas pipeline. They were released 94 days later, again at the request of the company.

After Frankfurt airport, Shannon is Europe's most popular stopover airport for CIA planes, according to a new Amnesty report. Colin Murphy reports

Two great Irish writers were well remembered this week on TV. Flann O'Brien's 40th anniversary was featured in Lives of Brian, while an Arts Lives documentary was re-run on the eve of McGahern's funeral. By Dermot Bolger

Darina Allen takes a chance on some authentic cuisine in India

An series of understated black and white photographs taken in Mali in the 1940s, and now part of The Paradise series at the Douglas Hyde's Gallery 2, is helping to put Gallery 1's little sister on the map. By Billy Leahy