Is the Six-County Director of Public Prosecutions still acting as an accessory after the fact? Eight years ago, the decision by the DPP to strike a deal with British agent and UDA death squad organiser Brian Nelson was seen by many as a cynical manipulation of the due process of law - a cover up, designed to curtail a trial which was set not only to expose the role of the British army in the north of Ireland but attract international political censure. Free article

Anthropologists tell us that you can best understand a culture by exploring its myths. Free article

Tea TG4 anabhrodúil as a sceideal nua - ach níl an Draoi Rua chomh cinnte sin faoin clár go dtí seo... Free article

It was the famous Liverpool football manager, Bill Shankly, who once said that football ``was not just a matter of life or death, it is more important than that ``. Free article

Mary Butler, a cousin of Edward Carson's, was attributed by Arthur Griffith as having coined in 1904 the term ``Sinn Féin'' for the policy of self-reliance of an emerging organisation and for the newspaper of that name which began publication in 1906. Free article

Much-needed and serious self-assessment of Sinn Féin's agitational work in support of prisoners was carried out at an internal conference held in Dublin last Sunday. Free article

Sir John T. Gilbert, 1829-1898: historian, archivist and librarian and A US spy in Ireland and The Junk Yard - Voices from an Irish Prison Free article

The week in quotes... Free article