A city in turmoil – Ray Burke on Nora Barnacle’s return to Galway in 1922

An Irishman’s Diary

Clerical errors – Ray Burke on Fr Peter Daly’s sway over 19th-century Galway

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Public contacts Cab ‘three or four times a week’

Concerned citizens encouraged to continue helping as 25th anniversary marked

On its 90th anniversary remembering the Irish Press

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Eoghan Murphy: Influential figure who was still deemed a ‘rising prospect’

Resignation comes as a shock as few thought bruising spell in housing would be last time in cabinet

Patriot Games – Frank McNally on political art theft, football as opera, and Lenin’s Irish accent

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Running aground – Ray Burke on the Indian Empire and a Galway conspiracy theory

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Traders or pirates – a 17th-century maritime incident in Galway that sparked an international dispute

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Seeing is believing – An Irishman’s Diary on Samuel Johnson and Ireland

Gaffes, rows and reversals: Government’s shaky start keeps going

From Barry Cowen to ministerial pay, the Coalition has had more than a few wobbles

Week is a long time in politics for Micheál Martin

Cowen affair may mean as many as one-third of party TDs no longer support the Taoiseach

Seán O’Rourke: 32,000 interviews later... ‘I’ve had my fill’

The broadcaster, who retired on Friday, looks back on his career high and low points

Joe Duffy: The Gay Byrne I knew was fearless, and eternally curious

‘Who in their right mind would turn down the opportunity of working with the single greatest producer and presenter in Irish broadcasting and beyond?’

Fintan O’Toole: Our perjury laws have failed for cultural – not legal – reasons

Tough new perjury laws contrast starkly with years of impunity for senior public figures