From the signing of the Good Friday Agreement in April 1998 until the UUP prevented the transfer of power and the establishment of the institutions two weeks ago - a period of almost 16 months - the peace process has limped from one unionist-induced crisis to another. Free article

THERE'S A MORAL in the story I'm about to tell. It concerns the production and distribution of food. Free article

Is minic fonóid agus magadh agus aor á dhéanamh faoi scríobhnóirí an Bhlascaoid Mhóir, Peig bocht ach go háirithe. Ach is ceart go gcuimhnítear iad nó is fíor an mana nach mbeidh a leithéid arís ann. Free article

When referee Pat Horan controversially blew his whistle for the end of the Clare- Galway epic, the Westerners had every right to feel aggrieved. After all, he had played just five seconds injury time when there should have been at least two or three minutes played. More significantly for them, he denied Galway a free from a scorable position as Frank Lohan of Clare fouled Ollie Canning just as the game ended. Free article

THE ELECTION of Eamonn de Valera and the release of the sentenced republican prisoners of war during June 1917 boosted even further the rapid growth of the Republican Movement from 1916. Free article

THE UDR attacked a 27-year-old Portadown man, breaking his jaw and knocking him unconscious. Free article

The Bitter Word By Mike Allen Published by Poolbeg Price £7.99 Free article

Forty years of bad living and cigarettes and he doesn't expect to get caught - and when he does, he tells us he never knew smoking was bad for him and blames it on the people who were keeping him in nicotine, highlighted on BBC's Tobacco Wars on Tuesday last. Free article

The week in quotes.... Free article