On the fifth day of the 1981 Hunger Strike, Frank Maguire, the MP for the constituency of Fermanagh/South Tyrone, died of a heart attack. SHANE MacTHOMÁIS tells the story. plus Key turning point in the struggle by JIM GIBNEY Free article

Prospects for success seem limited as Tony Blair and Bertie Ahern arrive in the North today in their latest attempt to instil momentum in the political process. Free article

In the third of a three part series on the issues of truth, victims and the role of the British state in the past three dcades of conflict, Philip McGuigan examines the case of Alan Lundy. Free article

Republicans are well used to dishonesty and distortion from the Sunday Independent, to abuse instead of reasoned argument; but last Sunday's front page lead by that professional anti-republican Jim Cusack surely takes the biscuit. Free article

The children of Gaelscoil An Culóg were given the chance to strut their stuff during half time of last Sunday's Dublin Carlow National Hurling League game. I might have said that they had their "day in the sun" except that would have been a totally inaccurate description of the climatic conditions as their appearance coincided with a shower of hailstones that might have heralded the coming of The Rapture. Free article

An Phoblacht's famous weekly satirical column Free article

Mhúscail mé le mo chlog nua aimsire I ndiaidh a sé agus bhí mé sáite I mo chéad scuaine tráchta ag deich i ndiaidh a seacht ar maidin, le droichead coincréideach thar mo cheann agus BMW XS ós mo chomhair; mo fhuinneoga a bhogann le cnap agus mo stereo ag éisteacht le mo MP3 agus ag cailliúint foighde leis an trácht. Free article

"I have seen the Indian in his forests, and the Negro in his chains, and thought, as I contemplated their pitiable condition, that I saw the very extreme of human wretchedness; but I did not then know the condition of unfortunate Ireland...In all countries, more or less, paupers may be discovered; but an entire nation of paupers is what was never seen until it was shown in Ireland." - Gustave de Beaumont, 1835 Free article

Le linn don chaint mhór a tháinig ó mheáin chumarsáide an Iarthair faoin'Réabhlóid Óraiste' a bhí tagtha chun cumhachta san Úcráin ar mhaithe le 'daonlathas' ar Steipeanna na hEoráise, is cosúil go bhfuil droim láimhe fíorfa tugtha ag muintir na tíre sin do 'laoch na réabhlóide'úd, Viktor Yushchenko.Le linn don chaint mhór a tháinig ó mheáin chumarsáide an Iarthair faoin'Réabhlóid Óraiste' a bhí tagtha chun cumhachta san Úcráin ar mhaithe le 'daonlathas' ar Steipeanna na hEoráise, is cosúil go bhfuil droim láimhe fíorfa tugtha ag muintir na tíre sin do 'laoch na réabhlóide'úd, Viktor Yushchenko. Free article

The week in quotes. Free article