Mary Hanafin, has distributed copies of Eamon DeValera’s biography to 2,000 schools. De Valera was the founder of Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael are insisting that this is party political and are calling for balance. A biography of Michael Collins has been suggested. But Michael Collins was not a founder of Fine Gael. He was not even a member of Fine Gael's predecessor Cummann na nGaedheal, which was only founded after his death.
Does a sympathetic biography of Dev exist? And if one is to get party political about the matter surely balance would be better achieved with a biography of General Eoin O’Duffy. O'Duffy was a founder of Fine Gael. He was the party's first leader. Could Fine Gael object to that?

seems to be falling over backwards with stories and articles from the "other tradition". These are mostly WW1 stories, so I suppose they concern the Irish News’ own tradition as well. On the Eve of Remembrance Day Gordon Lucy shared is thoughts with us. After declaring the 1916 celebrations last year were a bit of a setback he says:
"Mr [Dermot] Ahern claimed that without ‘a shared past’ we cannot have ‘a shared future’. Whereas the legacy of the events of Easter Week is divisive, there is no greater shared experience than the Great War" … "Sixty-four insurgents were killed during the fighting of Easter week. Significantly more men died that same week on April 27 1916 when the Germans launched a gas attack at Hulluch near Loos, on the men of the 16th (Irish) Division."
Lucy was particularly pleased about the unveiling of a WW1 memorial in Waterford which included the name of John Condon. John Condon was fourteen years of age when he was killed! Don’t people get hauled off to The Hague for that sort of thing these days? Over the last year the Irish News has been returning to its roots with a vengeance.