Ernest Blythe was the Fine Gael (or Cumann na nGael) Minister for Finance in 1923.

THIS week Fine Gael has been remembering John A Costello and the 60th anniversary of the Fine Gael-led coalition government that came to power in February 1948.

ROBIN BURY of the Reform Movement failed to answer the question I asked as to what would have resulted if the Rising had not taken place (Irish Examiner letters, March 13).

I PRESUME when Ryle Dwyer denounces Frank Ryan’s November 1932 slogan ‘no free speech for traitors,’ in his review of a new Ryan biography by Adrian Hoar (Irish Examiner, April 9), it is not to the word ‘traitors’ he is objecting.

RUMOURS that Guinness was planning to wind up operations at St James's Gate, Dublin, and move its headquarters to the Park Royal Brewery near London were finally killed off this week with the news that the Park Royal operation is being closed down instead.