The Quarryvale payments
The Mahon tribunal has been investigating since 1998 claims by Tom Gilmartin that a developer made two payments to Bertie Ahern. By Frank Connolly
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The Scarlet Pimpernel
As minister for finance, Bertie Ahern skirted controversy and was often a difficult man to get hold of. By Justine McCarthy
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Damaging to Fianna Fáil, fatal to the PDs
Michael McDowell has dealt what may transpire to be a death blow to the Progressive Democrats by his conduct over the Bertie Ahern payments saga. On Wednesday 27 September, he gave Ahern a clean bill of rectitude. He said: "I think it fair to say in the light of what the Taoiseach has stated that accepting such help was an honest error of judgment and was neither dishonest nor corrupt."
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Villagers: Letters to the editor 2006-10-05
I am absolutely delighted to hear that the UEFA Cup Final will be held in the newly refurbished Lansdowne Road stadium in 2010 and that the UEFA chief executive Lars-Christer Olsson has suggested that the Under-21 European Championship could also be staged in Ireland with a final in Lansdowne Road.
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Banville is Black
Labelled by journalists as arrogant, Booker prize-winning Irish author John Banville believes in his own opinions and writes for himself. He talks to Colin Murphy about his fascination with other people's lives and his new crime novel, written under the pseudonym Benjamin Black
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Beauty - as simple as that
Photographer Robert Adams' latest exhibition at the Douglas Hyde gallery charts the uneasy relationship between man and nature. By Billy Leahy
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Bertiegate: It gets even worse
Analysis of Bertie Ahern's contributions to Dáil exchanges on Tuesday 3 October about donations made to him while he was Minister for Finance. By Vincent Browne.
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Birds: Red Grouse (Cearc fhraoigh, Lagopus lagopus)
 A traditional quarry species for hunters, the Red Grouse is known to many by name if not by appearance. Confined to heather moorland and upland bogs, the Irish population has been declining recently, and hunting has been strictly limited. Whether this will enable the species to recover in this country remains to be seen, but it is still a widespread, if scarce, resident throughout.
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Short Shelf Life
Always the sworn enemy of all that is popular, Book Notes feels obliged to give readers fair warning. The festive season is but three months away and publishers have a glittering mass of blockbusters targeted at your unfortunate Christmas stocking.
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Questions but no answers
While this book stands out in its genre as a balanced overview of Ireland's adaptation to globalisation, it fails to offer solutions to the problems it identifies, says Peadar Kirby
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Robots Don't Cry
Robots Don't Cry is number 15 in the O'Brien Flyers series for young independent readers. Like other books in the series, it is instantly appealing with its comic-book format of large print, excellent big pictures and a narrative that is easy and exciting to follow.
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Cinema: Facing your demons
The Devil Wears Prada shows a world of excess that is surprisingly alluring while down south, Heart of Gold shows that this Neil Young's down-home twang will never go out of style, says Declan Burke
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Leonard Cohen: Life of a Ladies' Man
 Came So Far For Beauty, performed as part of the Dublin Theatre Festival, is a tribute to the songs of Leonard Cohen. Jessie Collins charts his life, poetry and multiple affairs.
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A loftier view of the world
It was called the artistic crime of the 20th century. It started even before he had seen the towers. He was sitting in a dentist's waiting room in Paris when he flicked open a newspaper and saw a drawing of the projected buildings. At the time, Philippe Petit was a vagabond street artist with a toothache. Six years later, he was walking the air between the twin towers of the World Trade Center.
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Political farce overshadows real issues
As the Bertie scandal disappears in a welter of smoke and plain glass, we are left with two not very consoling points. Firstly, even though a majority of voters don't believe that Bertie was right to take the money given to him, that majority still prefers to see him in charge of government than the Rainbow alternative. It's a bit like the Huey Long slogan when he campaigned for governor of Louisiana: "Vote for the crook you know!"
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Fragments 2006-10-05
Judges claimed €1.9m in expenses in 2005 and the highest amount claimed by a single judge was €54,902. Over €63,000 was claimed for judicial attire and incidental expenses.
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21st-century Shakepeare
 Nicky Gogan on 4D Art's innovative version of Shakespeare's The Tempest, showing as part of Dublin Theatre Festival, in which many of the parts are played by virtual actors
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Irish Times versus a tribunal and the judiciary
The Irish Times and its editor, Geraldine Kennedy, have come into direct conflict with the judiciary in breaching a court order and in destroying a document that the newspaper was legally obliged to produce to a tribunal. By Vincent Browne and Colin Murphy
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Mahon mayhem
Amongst the coverage on the Bertie payments scandal meaningful questions were conspicuously absent.
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