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Kevin Myers: Disasters -- where would showbiz be without them?

Kevin Myers Tuesday January 26 2010

It's hard to know where to start when human catastrophe occurs, and the breast-beaters come out of the woodwork. I do not make light of such calamities: only the sick and the wicked do that.

Lise Hand: Jibe over cardboard cutouts becomes a standing joke for TD

Friday January 22 2010

FINE Gael TD Bernard Durkan couldn't really be blamed for throwing out a few wisecracks towards the end of yesterday's Order of Business.

Controversial Selection dunphy's Starting Eleven

Saturday January 16 2010

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They did the State some service

Saturday January 09 2010

They were three quite different personalities but each was committed to making Ireland a better and more just place. Their contributions to politics, religion and public service made a difference to their times. All three are now linked in history for dying in close proximity on the final days of 2009 and in sharing glowing obituaries over the New Year period.

Family and friends bid fond farewell to political icon

Wednesday January 06 2010

DESCRIBED as a farmer, scientist, thinker and teacher, former Labour minister Justin Keating was laid to rest near his home in Co Kildare yesterday.

A man who saw socialism as both essential and adaptable to change

Saturday January 02 2010

JUSTIN Keating, the former cabinet minister, TD, senator and member of the European Parliament, who has just passed away, was one of that exceptional group of academics who crossed the bridge to the public world at the end of the 1960s to become active in electoral politics and stand as candidates for the Labour party.

Dubliners Eamon Campbell and John Sheehan pictured at Ciaran Mac Mathuna's funeral at Terenure College Chapel. Photo: Frank McGrath

'It was such a shame he wasn't here, he missed a great funeral'

Wednesday December 16 2009

THE late broadcaster Ciaran Mac Mathuna's own musical instrument was his voice and he entranced generations with it.

The age of our craven deference is finally over

Sunday December 06 2009

Historic is a term from which professional historians traditionally recoil and rightly so. The banalities of popular usage have debased its meaning beyond redemption. But there are still rare events that not only deserve but demand to be described as historic. The publication of the Murphy report is one such event: a truly historic landmark in the sad and squalid story of Church-State relations in independent Ireland.