As the Sinn Féin leader prepares to step down, it is important to recall his many achievements

Cosgrave’s political career was dogged by economic calamity and serious differences with his party

‘Bread for All’ engagingly traces the creation of the UK’s welfare state

Coveney’s ‘Just Society’ blather was not compatible with party in 1965 or now

Sallins train robbery, envoy’s murder and Kerry babies case were all shrouded in controversy

Challenging Gerry Adams on confidentiality is more fake indignation by media

Bertie Ahern achieved plenty, but he has way too much baggage for a comeback

It was stable governments that made our Parliament irrelevant, so as to perpetuate unaccountability in exercise of power of stable governments

Opportunism of Left over past five years ensured it was unable to make gains it could have

Republican party not a threat to the established order - it wants to become part of it

Comment: former first minister heaped poison into well of sectarianism

Opinion: Party never had ‘core values’, apart from two brief dalliances with socialism

Opinion: Labour claims it had ‘no alternative’ to cuts to most disadvantaged

Opinion: Maybe it was a mistake for the British parliament to promise us home rule

Opinion: More than a ‘few bad apples’ in the force