So, what's next on the agenda? The team are in Stormont, they're negotiating away on our behalf, and all we have to do is sit back and watch the victories unfurl on the TV screens every so often. Is that it? Surely, I hear you ask, there's still work to be done... and you'd be right. Free article

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In what is being seen as a major breakthrough in the Basque conflict Herri Batasuna (HB), Basque Nationalist Party (PNV), Eusko Alkartasuna (EA) and United Left (IU) - political parties involved in what has become known as the Ireland Forum - together with another 30 social organisations and trade unions, have signed the Lizarra Agreement. The document, published last Saturday, marks the way forward for a political resolution of the Basque conflict. There are strong rumours that an ETA ceasefire is imminent. Free article

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Sunday saw a fittingly unpredictable end to a particularly tumultuous season for the Offaly hurling team. Free article

Unlike many of her contemporaries, Constance Markieviez was born into the aristocratic class, the wealthy Gore-Booths of Co Sligo. At a young age she married a Polish aristocrat, Count Markieviez, and they had a daughter, Maeve, their only child. The marriage did not last very long and they parted amicably. Free article

Last week saw the beginning of a public debate on the analyses exchanged by Sinn Fein and the SDLP during their series of talks. It also saw an attempt by the Irish political establishment to, in the words of Progressive Democrats leader Des O' Malley, ``seize back the initiative from the men of violence'', in the form of a re-launch of the invitation to unionists to talk to the Dublin government. Free article

The Golden Sun of Irish Freedom Ñ 1798 in Song and Story and The Ô98 Reader Ñ An Anthology of Song, Prose and Poetry Free article

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