Answers to Christmas Quiz

1) The UDA. He was interviewed by Andy Tyrie.

2) CS gas.

3) Dublin City Mayor Dermot Lacey of the Labour Party.

4) Labour Party TD Roisín Shortall.

5) Hundreds had their semen frozen in a Birmingham sperm bank.

6) Toiletries and after-shave.

7) The Tidy Towns Competition.

8) Venezuela.

9) The 1913 Lock-Out, led by 'Big Jim' Larkin (which was marked by community, trade union and republican activists anyway).

10) Give peace a chance.

11) Taoiseach Bertie Ahern.

12) Sinn Féin and Independents. Labour and the Greens abstained.

13) Ex-SAS Gulf War hero and best-selling author who writes under the name 'Andy McNab'.

14) Boutros Boutros Ghali, interviewed on the Ali G in Da USAiii comedy show.

15) Lá.

16) Smokin' Joe Frazier.

17) Walter Sisulu, who died just a fortnight short of his 91st birthday.

18) Queen Victoria.

19) He ignored the court's ruling, as did the entire British establishment.

20) Bastille Day.

21) Clonakilty, County Cork.

22) Buckingham Palace garden party, where he, Queenie and Mrs Junior got an eyeful.

23) The Dixie Chicks.

24) The 26-County Attorney General.

25) Edward Said.

26) McDonald's.

27) Former ESAT profiteer and Fine Gael fan, Denis O'Brien.

28) Cilla Black.

29) It was the pre-Franco anthem of the anti-fascist, republican government in the Civil War.

30) 50%.

Happy Christmas