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Valets at war

  • 18 October 2006

Denis O'Brien and Michael O'Leary, two of the former man-servants of Ryanair founder Tony Ryan, fight for control of Aer Lingus

  • Marie Carthy remembers her brother John, of Abbeylara. Interview by Justine McCarthy
  • Ronnie Delaney talks to Colin Murphy
  • Irish Traveller Nan O'Brien addresses the UN

New revelations on purchase of Bertie's house

  • 11 October 2006

Also Bertie's manchester friends. By Justine McCarthy and Frank Connolly

Charile Bird, RTÉ's chief news correspondant is profiled

Crime author and former journalist John Connolly interviewed


Albert on Bertie's Manchester payment

  • 4 October 2006
  • Irish Times and Geraldine Kennedy confront the judiciary
  • John Banville interviewed by Colin Murphy
  • Emma Browne meets writer George Monbiot
  • Peace in Darfur: so near, so far

It gets worse

  • 27 September 2006

– Mystery of £50,000 savings when Bertie was financially strapped and had no bank account
– A shambling Dáil performance
– Failure to explain £8,000 speaking fee when minister

  • Exclusive: Bertie and the Manchester businessmen. By Frank Connolly
  • Profile: Arnotts' Richard Nesbitt by Justine McCarthy
  • Interview: playwright Tom Murphy by Colin Murphy
  • Hungary: 'The country without consequences'
  • Tom Burke on climate change


New evidence of favours: Bertie & Owen O'Callaghan

  • 20 September 2006
  • Tiger Woods: beating them at their own game by David Walsh
  • The K Club and its princes. By Justine McCarthy
  • Fine Gael and Labour by Justine McCarthy and Eoin Ó Murchú
  • The Pope and jihad

McDowell's new crisis

  • 13 September 2006

Revealed: He bought lands for eight times the market price

  • Profile: Mayo footballer Ciaran McDonald
  • Michael McCaughan in Guatemala
  • Justine McCarthy on the Owenahincha drownings
  • Gerry Adams on his trip to Israel and Palestine


Ballot box in one hand, €10m in the other

  • 6 September 2006

The buying of Election 2007. By Frank Connolly

  • Marion McKeone on 9/11: The Fear Factor
  • Eoin Ó Murchú on Fianna Fáil's "think-in" in Westport
  • Profile: Golfer Darren Clarke
  • Interview: Val Joyce

RTÉ and the hounding of Beverley

  • 30 August 2006
  • Irish Press scandal haunts the de Valeras
  • The judge and the 'fascist' minister: Kinlen and McDowell
  • Profile: John Reynolds
  • Roy Keane will succeed where McCarthy has failed

Afraid of the Garda

  • 23 August 2006

Politicians in denial over crisis of corruption and indiscipline in An Garda Síochána

  • Interview: Mike Murphy. By John Byrne
  • Michael McCaughan on the Mexican standoff
  • Profile: the Dublin football team
  • Ryder Cup 'rip off'

Bertie and the Illegal Dumper

  • 16 August 2006

The curious connections with Louis Moriarty

  • Bias against Muslims in the Irish media
  • Martin Ferris and the Boston criminal
  • Abu Ghraib interrogator interviewed
  • Martin O'Neill profiled by Ken Early

Career boor

  • 9 August 2006

Why You're A Star needs Brendan O'Connor

  • Richard Crowley reports on the crisis in the Middle East
  • Iris Robinson interviewed
  • Colum McCann on Oliver Stone's World Trade Center
  • Irish parts for use in Israeli helicopters. By Colin Murphy

The real favourites

  • 2 August 2006

Builders in the Fianna Fáil. Developers are by far the biggest donors to Fianna Fáil. Nearly a third of Ireland's 'rich list' are property developers

  • Lady Luck: Nina Carberry, Ireland's newest top-class jockey
  • Marion McKeone and Colum McCann on US soldier Steven Green
  • War by proxy. By Paul Rogers
  • Murder in Mountjoy: how it happened. By Colin Murphy