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His fine journalistic record and his involvement in a much-needed independent institution of inquiry should not be damaged by evasiveness

In the Christmas spirit, the time has come for the reality-based community to reach out to the White House. The Bush warriors are so deluded, they're even faking their fakery.

Was the alleged memo between Blair and Bush – in which Bush contemplated 'taking out' Aljazeera – a joke, a hoax or a genuine threat? Conor Brady on the implications of attacks on the media

Dermot Bolger sees a tasty chef, some brave vets, a sinking Shamrock Rovers and Cork in flames on TV this week

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The departure and return of some golden oldies.

Under a redundancies and outsourcing programme in 2004, Independent News and Media (INM) got rid of 205 staff from its operations in Dublin and outsourced a significant number of those jobs to companies based in Northern Ireland and in Clonakilty, county Cork.

Pembroke Dock was a pretty bleak place last weekend. It was a six-hour journey from Dublin on Friday morning, 24 November, through snow and traffic to get there. Wales had almost ground to a halt that morning. A thick blanket of snow covered the whole country and Pembrokeshire was all but cut off for the first part of the day.

Idealistic, searching, restless, looking for a buzz – characteristics that emerge in Roger Greene's interviews with leading Irish journalists. But there's not much self-doubt, and a disturbing assurance about what they do and how they do it, writes Conor Brady

Parodies, non-existent aliens, Northern Irish politicians and Irish islanders occupy Dermot Bolger's TV week