Sunday/Monday
THE Ulster Unionist party leader, Mr David Trimble and fellow unionist MP, Mr William Ross, complained to the British Foreign Office about visits by the President, Mrs Robinson, to Northern Ireland.
Mr Ross asked officials how someone who claims jurisdiction over part of the UK can come in and unveil plaques as President of all Ireland".
The Tanaiste, Mr Spring, started a two month tour of constituencies, which has given rise to increased speculation of a June election.
Following the weekend's 26-25 win by the Irish rugby team over Wales in Cardiff, discussions were taking place with Ireland's rugby coaching adviser, Brian Ashton, with the object of appointing him as permanent coach.
Tuesday
The Harryville Residents' Association in Co Antrim, where there has been a long running picket on the local Catholic Church for Saturday evening Mass, applied lord permission to the RUC to allow 22 loyalist bands to parade past the church at Mass time this Saturday evening.
The Belfast News Letter, in an editorial, called for "nothing less than a heartfelt unambiguous apology" from the British government for Bloody Sunday. More than 25,000 people marched in Derry on the previous Sunday to commemorate the event.
The hepatitis C tribunal ended its deliberations after 27 days and its chairman, Mr Justice Finlay, expressed "a deep feeling of sympathy and, indeed, sorrow", for the victims.
The Exchequer took £1.19 billion in tax revenue in January - an increase of 16 per cent.
In Nenagh District Court, Michael Dawney, Mercer Street, Dublin, was jailed and fined £3,200 for possessing animal growth promoters at the Horse and Jockey, Co Tipperary, in January 1992.
Wednesday
Paul Ward, Windmill Road, Walkinstown, Dublin, was charged in Kilmainham District Court with the murder of journalist Veronica Guerin at the Naas Road last June.
The Government decided to set up a judicial inquiry into the Dunnes Stores controversy when it received the Judge Buchanan's interim report into who were the beneficiaries of money from bank accounts examined by accountants Price Waterhouse.
Following a meeting at Shannon Airport between the Taoiseach, Mr Bruton, and the Russian Prime Minister, Mr Viktor Chernomyrdin, it was agreed that the Russian agriculture minister should visit Ireland soon to see Irish controls. The Russians will impose a ban on beef imports from eight counties next week.
Thursday
Attempts began in the Labour Court to avert the first national nurses' strike due to begin next Monday.
The High Court hearing of an alleged assault by Mr Cathal Ryan on former Miss Ireland, Ms Michelle Rocca, after she had discovered him in bed with another woman during a party in March 1992, entered its second day.
The National Gallery of Ireland is to receive more than £370,000 in settlement of a claim it brought in a London court against the media giant, CBS, over royalty payments on George Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion, on which the show My Fair Lady, is based.
A threatened strike by Aer Lingus transatlantic staff over accommodation in New York, may not go ahead when the union involved, SIPTU, recommended new management proposals.
Gardai investigating the murder of a Co Tipperary man, Mr Christopher Curtin, whose body was discovered in a public park in Nenagh, found what could be the murder weapon.
The jury in the trial of a man charged with the murder and attempted rape of a schoolgirl was discharged when it told the judge in the Central Criminal Court that it could not reach a verdict.
In the North there were a number of unsuccessful attacks on members of the security forces.