The candy show
Billy Leahy picks 'n' mixes at the Kerlin Gallery's latest group show, which features works from 20 different Irish artists
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A strange magic
Self-absorbed Jack is on the look-out for an anonymous actress who will make him look good on screen; Isabel, who can twitch her nose like the actress in the original sit-com, seems perfect for the part. And so the real-life witch finds herself playing a pretend witch who was pretending to be a witch pretending not to be a witch.
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Happy campers
A recent survey on happiness came up with the surprising result: those who live in rural Ireland are happier than those squeezed into urban areas. But did the pollsters just take people's word for it when they said they were feeling good or miserable? Or were those polled required to prove that their spirits were high or low?
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Misunderstood sun king
A new book about the North Korean leader, Kim Jong Il, says the world should be more concerned about Korea's human rights record than their nuclear capability. Joshua Kurlantzick reviews.
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Terror: reality mirrors fiction
In recent years fictional literature has managed to pre-empt the emergence of terrorism as the new global security threat. Caryn James looks at some of the books that have fictionalised the threat.
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The birthday killing
While at a boat party in San Francisco,William Monaghan pushed a man overboard and killed him. Charged with murder one, he spent almost two years in a US jail before being found guilty of involuntary manslaughter.
Now back home in Meath, he tells his story to Ciaran Cassidy
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'Surrender' of Colombia Three will defuse crisis
Sinn Féin wants to defuse the controversy over the Colombia Three before the political season resumes in early autumn. Hence the decision of the Three to make themselves available to gardaí. While on a personal basis Gerry Adams and the Sinn Féin leadership would have welcomed the return of James Monaghan and Martin McCauley – Niall Connolly would be unknown to most in the leadership – they would not have welcomed the political fall-out to their arrival back in Ireland.
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Where to now for post-war Sinn Féin?
THEN AND NOW: Now that being in government, North and South, is a possibillity for Sinn Féin, the party's pragmatic approach will be to keep talk of a united Ireland in the realm of theory. But what will it stand for in practice, wonders Diarmaid Ferriter
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The spy who loved him
William Orpen's nude portrait of his lover, Yvonne Aubicq, has dominated coverage of the Orpen exhibition at the National Gallery, but it is another female portrait that was perhaps more controversial in its day.
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An Independent star
TD WATCH/Finian McGrath: Simon Community Volunteer, primary school principal and You're a Star finalist. Mary Regan profiles the Independent whose song and dance could secure him a lot more votes
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Ballymun: a no-fly zone for birds
As the towers come tumbling down, they will be replaced by trees. Colin Murphy talks to Jochen Gerz, the man behind a project to create an oak woodland in memory of the seven Ballymun towers, and the signatories of the 1916 Proclamation after whom the towers were named
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Ireland cementing role in 'coalition of the willing'
The Government is contributing funds to a scheme in Colombia which critics say is strengthening the power of right-wing paramilitaries. This is just the latest in Ireland's increasing role in global conflict, writes Michael McCaughan
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PSNI seize papers in police killing case
In a further twist to the case of the killing by the PSNI of 21 year old Neil McConville, at Ballinderry, Co Antrim, on 20 April 2003, members of the PSNI confiscated documents, related to the case, from the veteran civil rights campaigner, Fr Denis Faul.
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Village had de Menezes
story before British press
In the past week the British media has been saturated with coverage of leaked documents showing a significantly different account of Charles de Menezes' shooting than that given in some police briefings and leaks to the media. Yet, the previous week in Village (12-18 August) a statement we published contained many of the same revelations.
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Local direct-action groups to converge on Rossport
The Erris region of North Mayo, where blockades of Shell's controversial Rossport gas pipeline are ongoing, is to welcome local community campaigns from around Ireland and abroad when it hosts a Grassroots Gathering in late August.
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Out like Flynn
PROFILE: Former Sinn Féin vice president, trade union leader and businessman Phil Flynn was charged last week with possession of a pen-gun. Despite being at a low point in his career, having recently resigned from a number of public positions this year, close associates still believe he will bounce back. By John Byrne
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Armagh will be too tough
Laois's style of fast-running, all-out attack is what's needed to take on Armagh, but they will only prosper if they can avoid being drawn into a slugging match. By Paul Rouse
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