Last Saturday, David McCullagh reported with relish that the then Taoiseach, Garret FitzGerald, asked Paddy Cooney to lift Section 31 (which kept the Provos off the air) and thus put RTE reporters "on their best behaviour".McCullagh has written a...

FitzGerald's newly elected government should send a message of homage to Pope John Paul.This had occasionally occurred in the past.AcknowledgedA note from an official in the Department of the Taoiseach revealed that the practice of sending messages of...

A. Costello was called to the Irish Bar in 1914, served as Taoiseach twice in the 1940s and 1950s and was still serving as a barrister in 1975. Costello's (1891-1976) 1991 centenary of his birth was marked with an Irish postage stamp. He was the third...

Responsibilities.pdf ‘IT IS A matter of great gratification that we have, in this period of strife and stress, such a unanimous and, I may say, enthusiastic support for a Bill dealing with matters of the spirit, the fine arts. With those words, the...

Apart from the Irish language and areas of heritage, culture had not been on the agenda in any meaningful way, especially in its more contemporary forms, and attempts to place it there usually received curt dismissal. The initiative to provide State...