The government, led by Garret FitzGerald, was seriously concerned about the high cost of running the government jet within months of taking office in 1983.

MUSIC NEWS: Singer, opera composer and champion of African music, Damon Albarn can now add radio presenter to his list of talents.

Patrick Cooney spent a decade “dropping in and out” of the lives of four members of the Anglo-Irish Ascendancy for his documentary, The Raj in the Rain, which will be screened on Sunday during the Kinsale Arts Festival.

THE director of the National Museum has been asked by the Minister for Arts, Heritage and Gaeltacht to assess an application by developer, Joe O’Reilly, to complete building works on the historical section of Dublin’s Moore Street.

THE world of Irish tailoring is a much poorer place since the recent passing of Patrick Murphy, the legendary tailor at Hawkins of Dublin.

I CAN only assume that the deafening silence that has greeted plans for Dublin’s Moore Street/O’Connell Street area is caused by deep shock.

SENIOR gardaí backed a proposal to run a reward for information programme through national newspapers but the Chief State Solicitor shot it down.

REFUGEES from Pinochet’s Chile were feared as anarchists and potential recruits for the IRA.

When the IRA killed the British Ambassador Christopher Ewart-Biggs in 1976 a shocked nation was outraged, writes Caroline O’Doherty.

A DUBLIN radio station has been reprimanded for constantly referring to Limerick as stab city.

FORMER Justice Minister Patrick Cooney wants a public inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the Dublin and Monaghan bombings because he believes his reputation has been “impugned unjustly” by Mr Justice Henry Barron’s report on the atrocities.

Former Justice Minister Patrick Cooney has told the Oireachtas justice committee that the Barron Report into the Dublin and Monaghan bombings was based on erroneous assumptions.

REPRESENTATIVES of the families of Dublin-Monaghan bombing victims yesterday welcomed the support of a former Cabinet Minister for a judicial inquiry into the tragedy.

A minister in the coalition government of 30 years ago today broke ranks with former senior colleagues, backing a critical report by a senior judge on the official handling of the Dublin and Monaghan bombings in 1974.

Patrick Cooney, Minister for Justice in the 1974 coalition Government has hit out at the accusations levelled against it in the Barron report.

At the Beverly Cooper-Flynn libel action trial in the High Court today, two former colleagues at the National Irish Bank have given conflicting accounts of offshore investment schemes.

The Beverly Cooper-Flynn libel trial at the High Court has heard that there was nothing underhand about a clerical medical insurance investment account being identified only by number.