Deaglán de Bréadún is a former winner of the IPR/BT Daily News Journalist of the Year award in the north and author of The Far Side of Revenge: Making Peace in Northern Ireland (2001 and second edition in 2008) and Power Play: The Rise of Modern Sinn Féin, as well as three books in the Irish language.
THIS island has such a long tradition of marking anniversaries that the late politician and intellectual Conor Cruise O'Brien once warned: "We are commemorating ourselves to death.
JUST short of two months ago I wrote in this newspaper about the controversy over payments to morning radio host Ryan Tubridy, who had recently stepped down as presenter of RTÉ television's Friday night The Late Late Show.
THE immensely sad and untimely passing of Sinéad O'Connor has generated a wave of distress and grieving such as we haven't seen since the tragic demise of John Lennon.