NEW and innovative thinking is required in order to respond to the current global economic recession. There are a number of options available to the finance ministers in Dublin and Belfast, including an active consideration of opportunities for co-operation and joint action. Free article

Eoghan Harris in the Sunday Independent this week is, in the old-fashioned sense of the word, fantastic. Free article

An Phoblacht's famous weekly satirical column. Free article

Má bhí dúnmhárú an Athar Uí Ghríofa (An Phoblacht 13 Samhain 2008) ar cheann des na heachtraí is measa i réimeas tíorannach na nDubhchrónach agus an RIC i nGaillimh, idir 1918 agus 1922 níl aon amhrás ach go raibh fuadach, céasadh agus dúnmhárú na ndeartháracha Uí Lochnáin sa chontae céanna, sa mhí céanna i 1920, ar an eachtra is barbartha agus is mí-throcairí. Free article

DAVID McWilliams recently wrote an article in which he claimed that the statistics on inter-county club transfers within the GAA reflected a steep rise in the numbers leaving the country. He compared the figures for January of this year to August, which indicated that while very few players transferred to clubs abroad in January that this had risen dramatically by August. Free article

THIS year marks the 150th anniversary of the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB). One of the founders of the IRB and one of its longest serving and most dedicated members was Thomas Clarke Luby. Free article

BOOK REVIEW The Fenian Anthology By Joe Ambrose Published By Mercier Press Hardback €24.99 Free article