A ban on smoking in public places was proposed by the Minister for Health Barry Desmond in Aug 1983.

Diarmaid Ferriter’s new book on Ireland in the Seventies highlights the sporting influence on the nation’s culture, writes Michael Moynihan

My abiding memory of Larry Hagman was when, at the height of his Dallas fame and fortune in the early 1980s, one of Dublin’s great “Madmen”, Don O’Connell of Doherty Advertising, which had the Health Education Bureau account at the time, persuaded Mr Hagman to appear in one of the most memorable and effective anti-smoking commercials of that era.

NOBODY is asking who stitched up Mickey Martin, because everybody knows who did it. It was Bertie Ahern. “He’s the man,” as Charlie Haughey once said.