SuperValu’s decision not to sell Israeli carrots evokes memories of the Dunnes Stores strike relating to apartheid from 30 years ago, writes Ryle Dwyer

LYNN Barber has just published a memoir, A Curious Career, about her days as Fleet Street’s greatest interviewer. Nobody can get to the nub of a celebrity like "the demon Barber".

AN illicit love affair is so quintessentially French that revelations of President François Hollande’s clandestine meetings with Julie Gayet have been greeted by the French with a shrug.

THE inventor of television, John Logie Baird, was born in Helensburgh near Glasgow 125 years ago today. His invention was arguably the single most important of the past 100 years.

A woman who was abused for 10 years in the diocese of Clogher said he latest report from the Church’s child protection watchdog illustrates “how unsupportive” Bishop Joseph Duffy was to clerical abuse victims.

It’s 20 years since A Woman’s Heart captured the nation’s feelings, becoming one of the country’s best-selling albums. David Young recalls 1992.

I WATCHED some of the opening ceremony of the Eucharistic Congress on Sunday afternoon.

ALTHOUGH the summary of the findings of the apostolic visitation to Ireland is a scant seven pages long, and although it is predicated on the “sinful and criminal acts” at the root of the clerical child sex abuse crisis, it nonetheless finds space on its final page for a statement which doesn’t directly link to the rest of the document.

AT HIS address on the opening night of RTÉ, 50 years ago today, President Éamon de Valera worried that TV might “lead through demoralisation to decadence and disillusion”.

ONE of Ireland’s most controversial clerics, Bishop Eamon Casey, was admitted to a Clare nursing home last week because of ill health.

THERE she was in an ad for a chair.

A RECORD low number of road deaths in the first quarter of 2010 has been spoiled by news that four families have lost loved ones on the roads so far this month.

A retired bishop who mishandled clerical child sex abuse cases tonight resigned as head of a charity.

Dan Buckley asks whether Ryan Tubridy can rekindle that Gaybo attraction.

THE television programme on RTÉ on Monday night At Home with the Clearys was a reminder of the megalomania of the late Fr Michael Cleary, a man who was always happy to be in the limelight as long as he was telling other people what to do.

THE resignation of Fr Maurice Dillane because he fathered a child gave your columnist Ryle Dwyer (Irish Examiner, January 21) an opportunity to weigh in with his two cents’ worth.

At least 150 women have been involved in sexual relationships with priests in Ireland since the early 1990s – with six giving birth to children, it was claimed today.

* In 1992, the media exposed the fact that Bishop Eamon Casey of Galway had fathered a son some 18 years earlier and abandoned both mother and child for years. To make matters worse, it became clear that he had used church funds to buy their silence.

The Catholic Church is losing its best priests because they can’t get married, supporters of a cleric forced to retire after fathering a child today claimed.

WHEN Vonnie Munroe walked off her job in protest at the Dunnes Stores selling South African goods 20 years ago today, she did not realise that it would cost her her home.

I WATCHED Rolling Back the Years from 1979 on RTÉ the other evening and all I could think of when I saw Bishop Eamon Casey and Fr Michael Cleary singing their hearts out on stage together during the Pope’s visit was — “now there goes a handy, holy double act, and no mistake.”

THE Irish priest who captured world media attention by running down the track at Silverstone on Sunday during the high speed grand prix race is facing one count of aggravated trespass following an incident at the Northamptonshire circuit.