IT WOULD be remiss of me not to congratulate all involved in the organisation of the Sinn Féin Ard Fheis. Congratulations must go to organisers, participants and backroom staff for a most invigorating and uplifting Ard Fheis. Free article

TWO young IRA Volunteers, Henry Hogan (20) and Declan Martin (18) were killed in an engagement with British armed forces in the mainly nationalist village of Dunloy, North County Antrim in February 1984. Free article

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IN the course of an absorbing interview with Cathal MacCoille on RTÉ's One to One, Kilkenny hurling manager Brian Cody, when questioned regarding the current dominance of his side and the perception (allegedly) that this is making the game boring or one-sided, looked just slightly irritated for the only time. "Sure, fairness has nothing to do with it," he said, or words to that effect. Free article