AT the end of November Michael Collins had proposed a new oath to be attached to the draft treaty: “I... do solemnly swear to bear true faith and allegiance to the Constitution of the Irish Free State as by law established and that I will be faithful to His Majesty King George in acknowledgment of the Association of Ireland in a common citizenship with Great Britain and the group of nations known as the British Commonwealth.”

THE Irish Times religious affairs correspondent, Patsy McGarry, criticised me at length in these pages last Saturday for what I had written about the Tilson case of 1951, but he didn’t manage to find a single inaccuracy in what I said.

YOUR columnist Rónán Mullen did us all a disservice in his column last Wednesday. Before addressing the main issue he raises - the Tilson case - I wish to correct inaccuracies.

TODAY begins the annual Week of Prayer for Christian Unity - a time when Jesus Christ’s wish that his followers ‘may all be one’ is the focus of Christian prayer both within individual denominations and at ecumenical gatherings.

The Irish Schools rugby squad to tour Australia during August has been announced by the management.

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