There is an extraordinary contrast in the state papers just released between the paucity of investigative material in relation the various gubus (grotesque, unbelievable, bizarre, unprecedented events) of 1982 and the wealth of interesting material that the Department of Justice has released dealing with events in the 1930s and 1940s.

A fire swept through a barrack at the former Nazi death camp of Majdanek in Poland, destroying more than half the building and possibly 10,000 shoes of Holocaust victims.

CONSUMERS spent more than €7 million on new potatoes last year — and they are expected to fork out even more this season.