Although it seems a strange idea to pair artists Patrick Fitzgerald and Ronnie Hughes for this joint show, the contrast between the two highlights different aspects of their works.
By Billy Leahy

A new aid package is due next month to save the North's economy. But many think the economy will never be able to compete with the South while still a part of the United Kingdom. Colm Heatley reports

The best programme on radio, on any radio, is Mooney Goes Wild on One. The idea of doing a nature programme on radio mus...

Derry council has voted to take a High Court case against the FOI Commissioner, who said that the council should disclose a deal it did with Ryanair regarding the council-owned Derry airport. Eamonn McCann reports

Though it sounds cheesy, there'd be much to enjoy in James Stephens's tale of philosophers, shepherd girls, celtic gods and leprechauns – if it wasn't so indulgently long, writes Colin Murphy

As all viewers of Columbo, Inspector Morse and A Touch of Frost are aware, the "hunch" is a crucial element of police detective work. In the fictional world, the investigator forms a view of what has occurred – how the crime was committed; who had means, motive and opportunity; who the murderer might be – and sets about looking for the evidence to back up this hunch. In television land, these hunches are disproved on only the rarest occasions, and then only in the subtlest fashion.

A Channel 4 programme attempted to identify the person behind The Falling man photograph, RTÉ documented Irish scientists, and the BBC discovered a Masterchef. Dermot Bolger reviews the week's television

Socialist Party TD Joe Higgins tackled the Tánaiste, Mary Harney, on donations from property developers, the PD ethos, and the 'orgy of greed' in Irish society, during Leaders' Questions in the Dáil on 8 March

Anthony Haughey's exhibition at the Gallery of Photography shows European conflict zones after the heat of war has abated, giving us a vision of the devestation of war even after living memory is gone. By Billy Leahy

Two new books offer and insight and hope to lead to action so that we don't burn ourselves out of existence. Review by Carl Zimmer