The 1970's were a time of highs and lows for workers at the Marina. As models like the Capri and Escort kept Ford as a brand leader, the global economy and industrial strife had adverse effects.

Alternatives to medical treatment for people with mental health issues need to get beyond the discussion phase towards policy and implementation, writes Jennifer Hough , who talks to practitioners about a national crisis

The battle for next year’s general election in Clare will be a family affair, as Fianna Fáil’s John Hillery looks set to contest the election against his future son-in-law, Independent Michael McNamara.

Dr Maeve Hillery, the wife of former president Patrick, has died at the age of 91.

The government was forced to review the adequacy of the annual entertainment bill for the presidency after a row broke out over who paid for the food bill at Áras an Uachtaráin.

40 years ago today, Ireland joined the EEC. Richard Fitzpatrick revisits the referendum campaigns — and de Valera’s rueful regrets

The year which saw two governments fall is best summed up by the phrase coined that August: Grotesque, unbelievable, bizarre, and unprecedented. Ryle Dwyer reports

Gerard Howlin says Michael D Higgins’s comments on the Savita Halappanavar case were inappropriate for his office

The ousting of Gavin O’Reilly from INM initially appeared to be quite a coup for board chairman James Osborne, but it now seems the legal battles are only beginning, writes Kyran Fitzgerald

The late former Clare mayor, Sean Hillery, was yesterday described as “a man of great stature”.

Rehn bares all in the sauna

EXECUTIVES at Independent News and Media (IN&M) have thrown down the gauntlet to the company’s biggest shareholder — telecoms billionaire Denis O’Brien — to make a bid for the company “if he wants to control it”.

WAKING up at the end of a week that teased us with a whiff of excitement in the presidential race, we’re left with that empty feeling described in the opening line of Samuel Beckett’s novel Murphy: “The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.”

STAFF at Ennis General Hospital are devastated for patients over the Health Service Executive’s plan to close the hospital’s high-dependency unit from next month.

THE HSE “alienated” a group of consultant psychiatrists by publicly announcing the closure of an acute psychiatric unit without warning the consultants of the decision.

THE mid-west Health Service Executive has been requested to suspend the proposed closure of a high-dependency unit at Ennis Hospital on March 1, along with other centralisation proposals, pending the completion of an independent review.

FINE GAEL councillor Joe Cooney last night confirmed that the party has approached him to run as a fourth candidate in the forthcoming general election.

THE son of former president Dr Patrick Hillery, Dr John Hillery, said yesterday he is willing to take a €100,000 hit in income if his hopes of being elected to the next Dáil are realised.

WITH Northern Ireland now being jolted by a couple of sex scandals, maybe we should ask why our politics have remained strangely free of such scandals? The whole thing undoubtedly has a lot to do with hypocrisy.

INDEPENDENT News & Media (INM) chief executive Gavin O’Reilly has reiterated his confidence that the group can finally complete its financial restructuring in the next month and a further deadline extension to talks with bondholders will not be needed.

IT’S war – the phoney peace has ended – Denis O’Brien has the O’Reillys in his sights and this time there will be blood on the floor.

Independent News & Media (INM) today lowered its profit forecast for 2009, describing the current business environment as "extremely challenging".

An inquiry from President Patrick Hillery about whether he was entitled to a pay rise under the national wage agreement sparked an investigation into his expenses, official files reveal.

Former president Patrick Hillery, who died in April, is to be honoured at a summer school in his native Co Clare.

INDEPENDENT NEWS & MEDIA chairman Dr Brian Hillery has been appointed a director of the Central Bank and Financial Services Authority along with former NCB Stock-brokers chief economist, Dermot O’Brien.

THE death penalty was still on the statute books during Patrick Hillery’s presidency and a number of such sentences were handed down during that period.

AFTER the first volley of shots rang out above the graveside, the momentary silence was broken by the sound of empty shell cases falling back to the ground like a trickle of rain.

FORMER president Dr Patrick Hillery worked in public life for four decades — serving not just as president for two terms, but as Ireland’s first European commissioner and a reforming minister in four government departments.

DR HILLERY was a private and even shy man despite the decades he spent in public life, mourners at his funeral mass heard.

Former president Patrick J Hillery was laid to rest yesterday following a state funeral in which the country did him and his family proud.

BY 1990, there was a general consensus that the office of president was worthy but dull, and there was no sign of debate or discussion in the 1980s about the possibilities of expanding the role of the president or a sense that its profile could or should be increased.

OUR late former president, Dr Patrick Hillery, represented the last generation of honest Fianna Fáil politicians and it is right he is mourned and his record of public service honoured.

Former President of Ireland, Dr Patrick Hillery, was today remembered as a humble and private man who achieved so much for his country.

The state funeral of former president Patrick Hillery will take place in Dublin today.

THE late president Dr Patrick Hillery was praised from across the political spectrum as the Dáil honoured his memory.

Mugabe has gradually made the impossible possible: restoring Ian Smith’s historical reputation.

Hundreds of mourners tonight paid their respects to former President Dr Patrick Hillery whose remains were removed to Dublin’s Pro-Cathedral for tomorrow’s state funeral.

The death of former President Dr Patrick Hillery was an end of a political age, the Dáil heard tonight.

Thousands of people are expected to attend a service for former president, Dr Patrick Hillery, at Dublin's Pro-Cathedral tonight.

TÁNAISTE Brian Cowen has said it was “a great honour” to be asked by the family of the late Patrick Hillery to give the graveside oration at his funeral.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel tonight urged voters to accept the Lisbon Treaty.