Media Willie O’Reilly: Pickled cucumber time as the media runs short of newsThe anniversary of Michael Collins’s death falling in August is a huge boon to a media desperate to fill their airtime and column inches with something – anything – during the silly season
Politics Elaine Byrne: FF and FG’s veneration of Collins is also an attack against a shared enemy The Taoiseach and Tánaiste’s joint oration on Sunday is the first time in history that the leaders of the Civil War parties have come together to acknowledge Michael Collins’ legacy but another factor in their united stand is the electoral threat posed by Sinn Féin
Auction Fine Arts: From Emmet to Armstrong, history speaks at Whyte’s saleA rare 1803 Proclamation by Robert Emmet is expected to realise €50,000-€70,000 at Whyte’s upcoming Eclectic Collector auction
Martin rules out historical inquiry into 1922 assassination of CollinsBut Taoiseach says the slain leader will be commemorated as a ‘statesman’ on 100th anniversary of his death next August
Fine Arts: Republican relics set to fetch good prices at Matthews saleThe final written words by Michael Collins and an original Easter 1916 Proclamation are the headline lots at the auction in Kells
Post-transition Brexit puts cross-border healthcare in perilSome 5,000 patients travel North annually under the EU cross-border healthcare scheme – and no one seems to know if this will continue after January 1