ALBERT REYNOLDS was a unique taoiseach in that he was also a highly successful businessman. Unlike any of the other taoisigh who held the office since the foundation of the State, he came into politics on the back of a career as an entrepreneur.

A woman who spearheaded a landmark workers’ strike at Dunnes Stores over South African apartheid in the 1980s has described Nelson Mandela as an inspiration.

THE painting on the wall is stylised and well executed and depicts suppertime at a traditional Traveller encampment. Next to it roars a space shuttle as it blasts into fiery orbit while, nearby, the rapper 50 Cent looks sassy.