Ireland should boycott Israeli military goods after buying almost €3m worth during the past three years, Sinn Féin has demanded.

Some strands of history are inescapable, they live with us forever — and so they should. Just as we can’t choose our family we cannot choose our past, it is our undeniable, irreversible path to our present.

The deadline for interested parties to submit bids for the Sunday Business Post to the company’s examiner passed yesterday.

THE Irish Examiner’s reputation for cutting-edge design and great sports coverage was recognised yesterday when it scooped two of the top prizes at the inaugural National Newspapers of Ireland Journalism Awards in Dublin.

Former Sunday Tribune political editor Shane Coleman has joined Newstalk 106-108 fm to head up its political coverage.

Sarah Carey has resigned as a columnist with the Irish Times.

IRELAND’s largest media group Independent News & Media (INM), swung back into profit — on a pre-tax level — last year, and is hoping to resume making dividend payments to shareholders next year.

THE Irish Mail on Sunday newspaper has claimed there is no evidence of any damage, loss or prejudice resulting from its publication of an alleged “fake” copy of the Sunday Tribune last month, just days after a receiver was appointed to it.

EVERYONE seems to be worried about Jonathan Sexton’s confidence these days, as if it is something as fragile as Ronan O’Gara’s latest Man of the Match crystal glass.

FORTY THREE staff at the Sunday Tribune have been made redundant.

Workers at the Sunday Tribune are facing redundancy next week after the receiver at the paper failed to find a buyer.

A former chief executive of Ryanair has failed in his appeal against his conviction for sexually assaulting a young woman over four years ago.

THE Sunday Tribune and journalist Matt Cooper have apologised before the High Court to businessman Dermot Desmond over two articles published in the newspaper in 2001 and 2002.

The union representing staff at the troubled Sunday Tribune is seeking a meeting with senior management.

The Editor of the Irish Mail on Sunday has defended his decision to put today's edition of the paper into a mocked up version of the Sunday Tribune, saying he did it to encourage people to buy Irish.

The Editor of the Sunday Tribune has expressed her shock at the use of the paper's image by a rival newspaper.

The Sunday Tribune will not publish an edition of the newspaper this weekend, nor for the remainder of February.

A receiver has been appointed to the Sunday Tribune newspaper, it was confirmed today.

The State is to spend thousands of euro to provide for extra parking for politicians, it has been reported.

LOSSES at the Sunday Tribune increased last year when the paper lost just over €158,000 a week.

FIANNA FÁIL is €3.6 million in debt and is planning an “intensive” fundraising campaign to reduce it.

The suspected child abusing brother of Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams worked for the party in Belfast after being forced out of a branch in the Republic over the allegations, Sinn Féin admitted today.

THE Irish Examiner has been chosen as Ireland’s Newspaper of the Year for 2009.

A LETTER writer to the Irish Examiner during the week asked if the manner in which John O’Donoghue was essentially forced to step down as Ceann Comhairle was “trial by media and mob justice.” There can be little doubt that there was an element of this in what happened. People are becoming dangerously exasperated.

FIANNA FÁIL senator Ned O’Sullivan has come to the defence of fellow Kerryman John O’Donoghue, claiming he was driven out of office by lazy journalists with nothing better to do.

THE continuing saga of Ceann Comhairle John O’Donoghue’s expenses reached a new low in journalism in the Sunday Tribune (September 13).

BANK OF IRELAND plans a rights issue in November to buy out some of the Government’s indirect 25% stake in the lender, the Sunday Tribune reported, citing informed sources.

QUINN Insurance Group has lost a High Court bid to strike out parts of the Sunday Tribune’s defence in forthcoming libel proceedings over articles alleging it recruited gardaí to approach solicitors to offer them bonuses on their fees to recommend reduced settlements to clients in cases against Quinn Direct.

Political leaders were united today in demanding the capture of the Real IRA gunmen who shot dead two British soldiers outside an army barracks.

FINE GAEL will tonight force Government TDs to publicly back Taoiseach Brian Cowen’s policy of not confirming the identities of Anglo Irish Bank’s Golden Circle.

LEADER of the Progressive Democrats Ciaran Cannon last night insisted there was “no deal done” to merge with Fianna Fáil.

DATA Protection Commissioner Billy Hawkes was left red-faced yesterday after a blogger “hacked” into his office’s website and managed to access his office’s annual report prior to its official publication.

THE wife of in-coming DUP leader Peter Robinson yesterday claimed the British government manufactured rumours he was violently abusive to her.

ALAN GAFFNEY has admitted that he has been styling his current Saracens side very much on the qualities and strengths that Heineken Cup opponents Munster hold so dear.

INDEPENDENT TD Michael Lowry has accused the Moriarty Tribunal of carrying out a “legal ambush” in its investigation of the 1995 mobile phone licence competition.

A GARDA charged with leaking official documents to a journalist was sent forward to trial yesterday.

Former Junior Minister and Progressive Democrats TD Tom Parlon looks set to lead a legal action against the Government following his departure from politics.

TAOISEACH Bertie Ahern has avoided potentially embarrassing revelations about his personal finances after the planning tribunal yesterday postponed its public hearings until after polling day in the General Election.

INSURANCE companies are to come under the scrutiny of data protection officials following news reports over the illegal disclosure of sensitive personal information by gardaí and the Department for Social Welfare civil servants.

THE billionaire managing director of the Quinn Group has vehemently denied allegations that his insurance company employed serving gardaí to investigate claims or had bribed claimants’ solicitors.

Quinn-Direct has today announced that it has instructed its solicitors, Mason Hayes & Curran, to initiate legal proceedings on its behalf against the Sunday Tribune newspaper for libel.

A journalist and a detective sergeant were today arrested by gardaí investigating the leak of an official report highly critical of the force.

“OF course I did, I needed a story” was Ian Bailey’s response to what he thought was a joke when a news editor told him of the rumour that he had murdered Sophie Toscan du Plantier.

Ian Bailey took it as a black joke when a news editor said there was a rumour that he murdered Sophie Toscan du Plantier and he said at the time: “Of course I did, I needed a story.”