Hiding arms, providing safe houses, and monitoring enemy movements all part of republican women’s role, writes Niall Murray

Ryle Dwyer recalls his 1996 Béal na mBláth oration and the views he held then

Kenny, in effect, was trying to hurt Fianna Fáil by helping Mary Lou McDonald when he criticised Garret FitzGerald for suggesting Fine Gael should transfer votes to Eoin Ryan. At the same time he was trying to have us believe that he would not deal with Sinn Féin. He can’t have it both ways

FOR years the maxim of American business was: “As General Motors goes, so goes the nation.” Today there are fears General Motors is going bankrupt and this could have further enormous implications for the global economy. The whole thing emphasises the need for new political thinking in relation to the economy.

I READ with interest your editorial on the passing of IRA veteran Dan Keating (October 6).

I AM a fifth-year student taking history as one of my subjects for the Leaving Cert. Recently I chose to research as my special topic the women of the 1916 Rising.