Saturday/Sunday
NORTHERN Ireland remains tense with fears of violence in the village of Bellaghy, Co Derry. Loyalists insist on their right to march through the village while 300 nationalists continue to protest at the attempts of 150 loyalists to march.
Loyalists - separated from nationalists by a 100 metre no man's land hold banners aloft and played loyalist songs while nationalists settle under blankets and sleeping bags in the road.
An 18 year old youth is stabbed to death in north Belfast. It is thought that John Joseph Molloy is the victim of a sectarian attack.
The legal adviser to the Pro Life Campaign and Regius Professor of Law at TCD, Prof William Binchy, criticises Supreme Court judges for not having the philosophical resources to interpret the Members of the court, he said, had used primitive philosophical tools in their consideration of a number of so called right to life issues". He was speaking at the campaign's summer seminar.
Monday
The stand off at Bellaghy ends peacefully when loyalists are allowed to march to the Orange hall. The 20 hour protest ends with a compromise and the loyalists are allowed to march to the Orange hall past silent protesters.
Youth Defence's chairwoman, Ms Niamh Nic Mhathuma, described a sinister a decision by both RTE and the IRTC not to allow a £36,000 advertising campaign to appear on RTE or local radio. The chairwoman of the anti abortion group says the decision sought to stifle the voice of the voiceless".
The construction industry is expected to grow by 13 per cent this year to £5.7 billion, according to the Construction Industry Review 95: Outlook 96 Report. The boom is expected to create 9,000 jobs over the next four years. If this is achieved then the cumulative output in the industry would have grown by almost 40 per cent in the last three years, according to the Minister for the Environment, Mr Howlin.
Tuesday
A draft report prepared for the Conference of Heads of Irish Universities has backed the points system and the Leaving Cert as the fairest method for choosing who goes to college.
A 570 head herd of cows in Co Cork is to be slaughtered following the discovery of a cow infected with BSE.
Accident investigators in Britain examine how an executive jet carrying Irish actress Lisa Hogan tore through an airfield fence and crashed into a van on a busy duel carriageway near London. The 25 year old actress escapes serious injury. She was the only passenger and was flying from Spain. Ms Hogan is the step daughter of the director of the National Gallery.
Footballer Roy Keane is back in the Republic of Ireland soccer squad. The Irish team manager, Mick McCarthy, says Keane has apologised for his non appearance for matches and his failure to phone him.
The National Gallery is to send an exhibition to Japan for eight months. It will include mainly French paintings from the gallery's 19th and 20th century collection. The exhibition is expected to raise £250,000 for the gallery.
Wednesday
The results of the Leaving Cert show a slight improvement in the marks for Irish and maths and a decline in English. The results are mixed and are unlikely to have any great effect on the level of points required for university.
The largest cocaine find by Irish authorities is discovered on a ship at Moneypoint, Co Clare. The vessel, the Front Guider, had arrived from Colombia with coal for the ESB power station. Gardai and customs officials find 30kg of the drug, which could have a value of between £3 million and £6 million, depending on its purity.
The Mayor of Limerick, Mr Ciaran O'Hanlon, calls for measures to deal with guns in the city following four incidents involving guns there over the past six days.
Thursday
The amount of cocaine found on the ship at Moneypoint rises to 50kg and is believed to have a degree of purity that could give it a street value of £40 million. The search continues.
Thousands of students celebrated getting their Leaving Cert results. The marks for the 59,000 students were received by schools and collected by students. The disappointing results in some subjects has been linked to a three year delay in planned reform of the examination system.
New courses emphasising practical abilities, due to start last year, will not be introduced until 1998.
The State's second longest murder trial ends when a Central Criminal Court jury convicts a former swimming international of the murder of his wife and an 18 month old girl. Frank McCann is sentenced to two concurrent terms of life. He is found guilty of starting a fire at his home which killed his wife and the child.
The lucrative Guinness Ireland advertising contract is awarded to a foreign company for the first time. The contract, worth £5 million, went to the London based company, HHCL. Bell advertising in Dublin held the contract on a temporary basis earlier this year and is responsible for the most recent advertisements.
The Department of Education examines a proposal from an Isle of Man based financier to build a 50 metre Olympic standard swimming pool in south Co Dublin.