It has been six long years. In 1996, David Trimble had held a meeting with loyalist killer Billy Wright at Drumcree. Behind the barbed wire and lines of RUC officers and British soldiers Trimble, in his Orange Order regalia, had paraded in front of the cameras. Free article

JOANNE CORCORAN continues her series on the all-Ireland implementation bodies with an examination of the work of InterTradeIreland Free article

Secret meetings in executive boxes at the Curragh, intimate discussions while flying to soccer matches , liaisons in exclusive hotels and maybe a drink or two after the all-Ireland and of course another dubious meeting. Free article

"In the long run, we are all dead," famous economist John Maynard Keynes once said. And that sums up Dublin government thinking on capital investment in essential projects like schools. For despite many protestations to the contrary, the government is looking to grow private public partnerships like mushrooms. Free article

Once again we are protesting the 'cutbacks' in outrage that amidst the swill of corruption, handouts, tax breaks and brown envelopes, it's the poorer people who must suffer the consequences. And it always is. Free article

AN DRAOI RUA highlights some of the concerns of the anti-war protest at Shannon Airport last Sunday Free article

The Curragh Camp in County Kildare was for decades the chief British military base in Ireland. It was handed over to the Free State army in May 1922 but it was shortly the scene of imprisonment and execution of some of the same republicans who had fought the British. Free article

Prelude to '81 Written by Rosaleen Walsh Directed by Jack Moylett Starring Paul Ward and Roisin O'Reilly Free article