CHARLES HAUGHEY is rivalled only by Jack Lynch in evasiveness and managing to give the impression of saying one thing while actually saying another. Note how he has never actually said he supports Jack Lynch as leader of Fianna Fail or that he supports the Lynch line on the North as stated in the Tralee speech of September '69 or the US speech of November '70.

THE DROPPING of the 'shopping basket' feature from RTE's "Gay Byrne Hour", highlights the diffiiculty of putting almost any kind of consumer informaation over the airwaves, except advertisements. By Dermot Kelly

Kevin Myers reports on the finances of the Peace People. By Kevin Myers

The Provisionals have graduated from the Thompson sub, to a gun that shoots down helicopters. By Kevin Myers

BBC's program 'An Irish link with Terrorist International', the Coalisland Conference and Bruce Arnold's Novel

Theatre, film, galleries and restaurants

ONE OF THE nicest ways to begin a holiday is sitting down to the palatial buffet which they serve on Irish Continental Lines' two ferries from Rosslare to Le Havre or Cherbourg. The food is excellent, the setting ideal as, with any luck at all, the sun reflects off a flat calm sea through the seascape-hugging windows. By Howard Kinlay

Jennifer Johnson reviews 'A Singer at the Wedding' by Bruce Arnold. Hamish Hamilton. £4.95

Terry Madison writes from Auckland on the Coghlan/Walker clashes.

THE RESIGNATION of Tom Roche as an executive director from the board of Cement Roadstone Holdings marks the end of the story of 'how one man built up' Ireland's largest industrial enterprise from nothing. Roche was' a tough man but of course, he had to be to achieve what he did. That he has not lost: any of his ceaseless drive and enterprise is evident from' the many business activities he is now deeply involved in, the most notorious being Bula and, the most unusual being his plan to ,build a private enterprise bridge across the Liffey. By TOM ANDERSON