Saturday/Sunday
A RECORD 46-6 score marked England's rugby victory over Ireland at Lansdowne Road.
Telecom Eireann said telephone rates would be cut by an average of 50 per cent during the next three years after welcoming a global trade agreement on telecommunications.
A former senior broadcaster at Radio Clyde will be the new assistant programme controller at Radio Ireland, the station's chairman, Mr John McColgan, said.
Monday
The Department of Agriculture introduced a voluntary vaccination scheme to protect the State's £400 million poultry industry against Newcastle Disease spreading from Northern Ireland.
Abstentions by nine Ulster Unionist MPs helped the British Agriculture Minister, Mr Douglas Hogg, defeat a censure motion over his handling of the BSE crisis.
The Conference of Religious in Ireland warned that the role of patrons, mainly churches and religious orders, was seriously misrepresented in the Education Bill which, it said, may be unconstitutional.
Journalist Eamon Dunphy lost a Supreme Court appeal against a District Court judge's decision to issue a warrant for his arrest for failing to answer 10 summonses for alleged road traffic offences.
The largest passenger ferry in northern Europe, the 34,000 tonne Isle of Inishmore, sailed into Dublin. The Irish Ferries vessel will go into service on the DublinHolyhead route on March 3rd.
Tuesday
Five men were arrested after a bomb making operation and arms supply route were discovered at Portlaw, Co Waterford.
A 7,000 year old canoe, dug out from mud flats on the Shannon Estuary, was seen as one of the oldest signs of a hunter gatherer community living in Ireland.
A High Court judgment, upholding a ban on day to day reporting of a drugs trial at Cork Circuit Court, is to be appealed to the Supreme Court by newspapers and RTE.
The Minister for the Marine, Mr Barrett, announced that a public forum would be established to discuss the Loran C navigation mast proposed for West Clare.
Wednesday
Tributes were paid to the achievements of the Chinese leader, Deng Xiaoping, who died. The Tanaiste, Mr Spring, said Deng's loss would be deeply felt in China.
The National Economic and Social Council said the Government should develop a strategy for dealing with any sharp fall in sterling after monetary union.
The way was cleared for the "trial of a man charged with raping and indecently assaulting three of his daughters between 1963 and 1973 after the Supreme Court rejected his appeal that the time lapse since the alleged offences would prejudice such a trial.
The Minister for Equality and Law Reform, Mr Taylor, announced he would not contest the next election, saying that, at the age of 65, it was time to retire.
The Tanaiste, Mr Spring, summoned the British ambassador, Mrs Veronica Sutherland, to Leinster House to protest at the conditions in which Ms Roisin McAliskey is being held at Holloway Prison.
Thursday
The British government indicated that a new investigation could be held into the events of Bloody Sunday.
Nationalist and Labour politicians expressed anger at comments by the former British prime minister, Sir Edward Heath, comparing the events of Tiananmen Square with Bloody Sunday.
The SDLP leader, Mr John Hume, ruled out an election pact with Sinn Fein if the IRA did not renew its ceasefire.
The Minister for the Environment, Mr Howlin, was told by group water schemes representatives that it would cost £15 million annually to resolve the dispute over water rates.
An Irish research company developed a simple BSE test, which takes less than four hours to detect if carcasses are free of the brain disease.