The electorate should have little tolerance for another round of ranting from the political parties on crime, writes Rita O'Reilly Free article

Whatever else he may be doing by pushing ahead with the settlement in occupied land on the outskirts of Jerusalem, it is clear that Israeli premier Binyamin Nethanyahu is in breach of the 1993 Oslo Accords. Free article

``The last time I was in Crossmaglen was forty years ago, on the border campaign and we weren't firing balls over the bar''. So said the republican veteran I met at Croker last Sunday as Cross' swept to their first ever All Ireland Club football title with a polished performance which Mayo's Knockmore had no answer for. Free article

In the Spring of 1912, at the height of the debate on the granting of Home Rule to Ireland, Pádraig Pearse, in an attempt to raise support for Irish freedom, founded the paper An Barr Buadh and a political party, Cumann an Saoirse. Free article

Within the last month, members of the UDR have appeared in court for raiding the armoury of their own base in Coleraine and, more recently, for keeping an arsenal in an attic for Paisley's Third Force and being a party to one of the Shankill Butcher Lenny Murphy's murders. Nothing unusual for the UDR. Free article

Identity Ideology and Conflict by John D Cash The Dynamics of Conflict in Northern Ireland By Joseph Ruane and Jennifer Todd Both published by Cambridge University Press Free article

Jonathan Meades is a delight. His last series for the BBC, loosely based around architectural styles in Europe, was inventive, hilarious, even, dare I say it, inspired. The man brings to television what most programmes lack, namely style and imagination. His latest series, Even Further Abroad With Jonathan Meades (10pm, BBC2, Wednesday, 12 March) has been a visual and aural treat. Free article

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