WOULDN’T you know there is a by-election in the offing and a general election on the way? Pledges, pledges and more pledges; the more the merrier it would seem. There seems to be no end to the pledging by all...
THERE are times when there is no question but we are going backwards. In 2003, the country was bursting with pride when we successfully hosted the World Summer Games of the Special Olympics, when more than 7,000 athletes from 150...
I KNOW it is legal, but that doesn’t make it right. What I am talking about is the release of...
ASK any tourist what their lasting memory of Ireland is and they will probably tell you it is the colour...
AN underlying attitude of entitlement and arrogance was how Sinn Féin’s Pierce Doherty described taoiseach Enda Kenny’s claim that he...
IT SEEMS Pope Francis cannot say anything right these days. He is damned if he does and damned if he...
I HAVE to admit that it infuriates me when legislation impinges on the simplest of things, such as buying eye...
THERE are times when political correctness is a must, and then there are times when it is just a distraction...
A COUPLE of years ago no-one – or very few, at least – had heard the term ‘quantitative easing’, let...
I HAVE to admit that I am getting sick to death of reading, or hearing, of all the places in...
A LOT of words have been used to describe the deaths of four young women in a road accident outside...
ONLINE shopping is slowly but surely living up to its potential. Most young people now prefer to purchase online rather...
A LOT of political spin was put on the government’s solution to solving the Irish Water problem last week. But...
THE water saga just goes on and on. But at the time of writing, no major changes have taken place...
IT IS fast becoming one of the major events around the world, or at least the major event for technology...
I HAD reason to use an ATM at the Bank of Ireland recently and it suddenly dawned on me what...
I HAVE spent long enough covering court cases over the years to understand that not everyone who appears before a...
I SAW a report last week stating that poor standards of hygiene and infection controls at Tallaght Hospital meant there...
I heard a few rumblings last week about Ireland turning into a nanny state following an announcement by children’s minister...
THERE was a lot of talk last week about how the economy was performing better than expected, prompting the Central...
