Twenty-five years ago the economies of Western Europe, North America, Japan and Australia were approaching a crisis. A combination of high inflation, volatile currencies and domestic economies clearly out of control was creating huge international tensions in the global economy. Free article

IMF and World Bank bosses, Horst Kohler and James Wolfensohn, like to characterise the thousands of protesters who take to the streets to demonstrate against their institutions as ill-informed and misguided, but essentially well-meaning. Free article

Faoin am seo, ba chóir go mbeadh an scoilbhliain tosaithe i gceart do gach uile duine ó na daoine beaga atá ag toiseacht amach sna réamhscoileanna go mic léinn ollscoile. Leoga, tá cúis gearáin acu uilig. Free article

The Portugese will teach Mick McCarty's team a long-overdue lesson in tactics, writes Mick Derrig. Free article

FOR the third successive year Sinn Féin was represented at the famous Fete de l'Humanite on the outskirts of Paris, the biggest gathering of progessive movements from around the world. Free article

The week in quotes... Free article