A standard bottle of gas (11kg or 13kg) which for many people provides either heating or cooking energy or both retails for approximately €14.50 to €18 in Spain.

Liam Cosgrave’s monumental legacy is that he put the nation’s security and the national interest before party considerations, writes Ryle Dwyer   

Justin Keating was Minister for Industry and Commerce in the early 1970s and a man of strong convictions, never afraid to voice his opinions. Ryle Dwyer reads between the lines of his collection of writings. 

We don’t own our natural resources under Article 10 of the Constitution. It needs to be repealed, but is there anyone with the bottle to take it on, asks Eddie Hobbs

Europe Correspondent Ann Cahill looks at a documentary that explores Ireland’s oil and gas resources that claims the Government is being careless with the country’s precious stocks.

Eddie Hobbs has picked his latest target, the oil industry, and is planning on putting a movement together to try and change Ireland’s attitude to offshore oil and gas.

A last word on Con Houlihan?

LAST week, while filling in for Vincent Browne on TV 3, I stumbled across a current controversy.

Irish IT company Version 1 is to create 150 jobs across its Cork, Belfast and Dublin offices.

THIS is not the first book about the Corrib gas saga to feature ominous storm-clouds on its cover.

AS the woman opened the bedroom door to let the two young doctors in to see her sick husband, one of them put his arm out to halt the other.

Tributes were today paid to former Labour Party minister Justin Keating, whose death was announced.

The death has taken place of the former Labour Party Minister Justin Keating.

THE Government secretly forged trade links with Libya in the 1970s, while privately acknowledging the north African state was arming the IRA.

THE indignant rant of Pierce Martin (Letters, January 12) in response to my letter of January 5 (‘Intellectual giant who turned into a political pygmy’) clearly shows that even three generations into partition, and all the horrors that have flowed from that seismic event, there are still some among us who resent the removal of British colonialism from Ireland.

CONOR Cruise O’Brien would probably have been proud to think that his passing this week would mark the end of an era.

SENAN HOGAN (Irish Examiner, March 10) reports Progressive Democrat Fiona O’Malley’s support for the Shell-led consortium’s plans to develop the Corrib gas field.

NEWT GINGRICH put up a stout defence of US President George W Bush’s intervention in Iraq on Marian Finucane’s radio show on Thursday.

JUSTIN KEATING, Minister for Industry and Commerce in Liam Cosgrave’s coalition, accepts the findings of the Barron report (Irish Examiner, Dec 30).

REPRESENTATIVES of the families of Dublin-Monaghan bombing victims yesterday welcomed the support of a former Cabinet Minister for a judicial inquiry into the tragedy.

A minister in the coalition government of 30 years ago today broke ranks with former senior colleagues, backing a critical report by a senior judge on the official handling of the Dublin and Monaghan bombings in 1974.

ALL Irish political parties have their myths. They can be useful in motivating membership and cementing internal party unity.