When the IRA killed the British Ambassador Christopher Ewart-Biggs in 1976 a shocked nation was outraged, writes Caroline O’Doherty.

ON Saturday, January 10, Labour party leader Pat Rabbitte called on Justice Minister Michael McDowell to “stop delaying” the appointment of a Garda ombudsman — a statement which I tend to agree with despite the fact that I am neither a Labour supporter nor a fan of Pat Rabbitte’s.

IN your New Year’s Day edition there was a photograph which purported to show Liam Cosgrave’s Fine Gael/Labour government receiving their seals of office from President de Valera in 1973.

ONE of the earliest architects of the northern peace process warned 30 years ago that Democratic Unionist Party leader Dr Ian Paisley would be a formidable barrier to progress and urged that he be excluded from negotiations.

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.