Rule number one: don’t talk about the anomalies or you might have to address them

Showman and dealmaker defied detractors when he brokered peace in North

Progressive Democrats founder made ‘extensive’ contribution to public life, says Higgins

Activists acknowledge issue of identity essential to repelling threats from Fine Gael and Sinn Féin

An Irishman’s Diary

Row over Hazel Chu’s bid for Seanad seat highlights split between party’s leading figures

Kieran Cotter calls time on Baltimore RNLI seagoing work – service that began in 1975

An Irishman’s Diary

RTÉ’s The Way We Were successfully dusted off the Reeling in the Years formula

Exemption not intended for ‘career politicians’ or various stars promoting their memoirs

She is the latest of many actors to wrestle with the blue suit and tortured vowels

Committee will have to weigh up a matrix of matters before making recommendations

Majority in FF do not want leader’s removal, but many take issue with his operating style

An Irishman’s Diary

Some, including initial proponent Mary Harney, argue the ban should be nationwide

Former Fine Gael TD was ‘completely resistant to anodyne press office suggestions’

The former RTÉ newsreader on her popularity, perks of retirement and not enjoying lockdown life

Vetting of proposed ministers ‘always carried out’, says former minister of state

The drama of the closing stages of the 1987 race held the nation in rapture

The broadcaster, who retired on Friday, looks back on his career high and low points

“At 9.19 on way back to College, at bottom Grafton St, we met Charlie Haughey”

Easter Monday and the big race at Fairyhouse go together like Laurel & Hardy

There are no rules and no time limits on how to put together a new administration

A history of Ireland’s wins throws up some mythical tales and unforgettable moments

Dublin Bay North candidate elected on 14th count

‘I got my photo taken with Jack Lynch but Jack bought me no whiskey!’

Championing Rick Astley for taoiseach while Ó Ríordáin lets us in on a daily struggle

Election 2020: Having long resisted her participation, RTÉ should be happy with its decision

Unconfined joy among some of Charlie Haughey’s most fervent supporters when returned as taoiseach in 1987

Taoiseach Charles Haughey received some novel advice from members of the public on how to end the Troubles

Department of Foreign Affairs chief of protocol said ‘standard of service was not adequate for a meeting of this type’

State papers: Charles Haughey had to intervene in row after Duke of Leinster requested 16th-century stone table be given to county council

State papers: American embassy diplomat raised concerns after top-level meetings between taoiseach Charles Haughey and USSR president Mikhail Gorbachev

State papers: Official compared how British prime minister had ‘grabbed her handbag and stormed out’ of meeting with Belgian leader

State papers: Paddy Joe Hill wrote to taoiseach pleading with him to take their case to European Court of Human Rights

Release of Guildford Four, fall of Berlin Wall and Ireland qualifying for World Cup for the first time among highlights

Despite public histrionic denouncements, North’s first minister advocated getting ‘as much as possible out of the cow’

Everyone, homeowners and businesses, needs to start producing their own electricity

Artist Maria Simonds-Gooding settled in Dunquin in the 1960s in a Blasket islander’s cottage

The Rubberbandit talks politics, podcasts, his new book, and angry men with Patrick Freyne