The O'Brien Press certainly seems intent on cornering the junior fiction market when it comes to the 1916 Rising.

Any weekday morning they step off the buses under the Queensboro Bridge – dozens of prisoners released from the New York prison system. Clouds of white breath leave them for the air. Hard men, most of them. A few women. It is fascinating to watch their first moment of freedom. One might expect to see their lungs swell. A tiny skip in their steps. Or their arms open to a loved one. But they look rigid mostly, like they've forgotten how it is to move in this space.

At a time when even the Irish Labour Party are wondering aloud about how and when foreign labour is best used, it was en...

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

St Patrick is misrepresented in his present day image; by looking at his writings, we can learn the fascinating truth about the patron saint of Ireland. Padraigín Clancy profiles him.

 I was a “Marian groupie” for years. Just loved her easy sympathetic style, her capacity to pay attenti...

Roy Keane was in Dublin on Tuesday (14 March) at a charity event for the Irish Guide Dogs for the Blind. He spoke to Ken Early about Ireland, Steve Staunton, Manchester United, Celtic and England in the World Cup. For the first time he indicated he might quit football in the interests of his family

Last December, Mary O'Rourke said a special committee of the Seanad would be set up to investigate alleged CIA rendition flights through Shannon. But Fianna Fáil senators objected, and the motion to establish a committee was defeated in the Seanad on 8 March. These are the highlights of that debate

Ivor Callely wants to see 'justice applied in all cases'. Finian McGrath thinks Donna Cleary's murder was 'an absolute crime'. Martin Brady knows families who pay their mortgage out of the children's allowance. Five TDs met the residents of Coolock recently for a public question-and-answer session. From the audience, there was no mention of murders or gun crime. Colin Murphy reports

 Invariably in the wake of outrages such as the murder of Donna Cleary, the voices of amateur sociologists are to be heard even above the grief of those left devastated.