Wednesday is the 37th anniversary of a tragedy that killed 48 people. The 1986 tribunal revealed the searing anguish of survivors, says Caroline O’Doherty.

Former Supreme Court Judge and first President of the Irish Human Rights Commission, Donal Barrington, has died.

Ged Nash, the business and employment minister, served for many years as a trade-union official and it is perhaps no coincidence that he was on hand recently to launch The Safety Representative Resource Book, which deals in some detail with aspects of health and safety. It is to some extent modelled on a recent publication issued by the Trade Union Congress in Britain.

For more than a year the Government has been talking about cutting back on expenditure, because the country is clearly living beyond its means.