On the 40th anniversary, Ryle Dwyer looks at the momentous events of the 1977 general election.

A campaign has been launched to keep one of Cork City’s most historic buildings — which is earmarked for sale — in public ownership to promote the city’s maritime heritage.

Singer-turned-hero Damien Dempsey didn’t make a song and dance yesterday about the summer day he saved a swimmer’s life. The Dublin native waded into the River Slaney in Enniscorthy, Co Wexford, and helped pluck a drowning man to safety.

Depending on what you are looking for, this Co Limerick whopper of a home with Shannon estuary view is either less, or more, than the sum of its many and sizeable parts.

The Irish public has been left hanging when it comes to getting a full explanation about who knew what and when in the phone-tapping scandal of the 1980s, writes Ryle Dwyer.

Tomorrow is the 30th anniversary of Charlie McCreevy’s sensational motion to oust the then taoiseach Charles Haughey. Ryle Dwyer examines the traumatic events

FOR Ireland to escape the drop zone and avoid relegation from the euro currency league, we must win our home fixtures. Away games are subject to vagaries of fortune.

A FAIRLY routine medical procedure went wrong and I had to go to the Accident and Emergency at Tralee General Hospital last week. I immediately realised the agony that one would have to endure if there were no local hospital.

FIANNA Fáil has essentially ousted its last five party leaders while serving Taoisigh. Recently, Vincent Browne was asking on TV3 whether this is indicative of something radically wrong within Fianna Fáil.

THE Taoiseach returns today from Washington. At the top of his in-tray is next Tuesday’s ministerial reshuffle. This represents his last chance to refresh his Government.

A LAST-DITCH offer of a front-bench position was not enough to keep George Lee from walking away Fine Gael and politics.

A leading Irish economist has said that the Government has no option but to implement systematic cost-cutting in the public service in next week’s budget, stating that “in the current circumstances we have no option but to cut our cloth to match our means”.

ANYONE who retains even a vestige of faith in the ability of economists to forecast the economic future might consider a cartoon from some years back.

GROUPS from Waterford and Clare won the two major awards at the 56th North Cork Drama Festival in Charleville.

VINCENT BROWNE’S questioning of the Taoiseach at the launch of the Fianna Fáil manifesto on Thursday was riveting. Bertie Ahern was refusing to answer questions about the £30,000 he got from his friend Michael Wall in December 1994.

THIS Co Clare cottage has probably the shortest brochure specification of any property currently on the market: it simply says ‘Stone cottage on circa one acre in need of repair and renovation.’

SOME people have been suggesting that Catherine Butler’s interview in The Village magazine is a Fianna Fáil attempt to rehabilitate Charles Haughey, but publisher Vincent Brown has more reason than anyone to realise that the role played by Fine Gael and Labour in the telephone tapping was the height of hypocrisy.

YOUNGER viewers will no doubt find the TV series on Charles J Haughey interesting, and it will evoke memories for older people who can still remember the events.

THE Dublin City and County Book of Honour of the Great War 1914-1918 was part of the homily at 11am Mass in the Pro Cathedral, Dublin, on Sunday, November 14.

The hunt for the convicted killer suspected of killing Martin O’Donoghue last Monday is still focused on certain parts of Limerick city, despite reports that he may have skipped the country.

A Limerick family is today coming to terms with a second murder horror.

Four people remain in Garda custody today in connection with the death of a 36-year-old man in Limerick.

Four people were being questioned by detectives tonight in connection with a fatal stabbing in Limerick.