Sunday, November 8, 2009 Previous editions
Columnists
Today's columnist:
Ryle Dwyer
The Presidency has become an extravagance we can no longer afford
THERE has been talk about cutting the size of the Dáil and abolishing the Seanad, but nobody seems to have suggested abolishing the Presidency, which is the single most expensive office. How much could be save by abolishing it?
Bring out the red and yellow cards, and keep Lisbon debate free of porkies
IT WAS one of those panels studded with the famous, lucid and loquacious.
‘Operation Jedward’ a perfect plot to make us forget the doom and gloom
HE wasn’t in good humour.
Ignore the swine flu scaremongers and just get on with your life
THERE’S a sort of poetic justice to it: having written back in April about the danger to mental health arising from swine flu hysteria, I have now come down with the bug myself. Perhaps 100,000 people in the State have likewise been struck.
Lack of accountability is the real scandal in Anglo Irish fiasco
POLITICAL and other spin doctors know how to manage a crisis. The critical factor is to hang on. They believe virtually all news media cycles are “nine-day wonders”.
Is the plan for a super-casino a good idea? Don’t bet on it
ONE THOUSAND construction jobs for north Tipperary for three years, followed by 2,000 more jobs in the finished development sounds like a good deal that no government could object to, especially when no government financial assistance is being sought.
Tubridy gets his chance to match the man who changed Ireland
RYAN Tubridy’s selection as next host of the Late Late Show did not come as a great surprise. He was always on the shortlist.
Democrats won’t give Europe an easy ride in Doha negotiations
ANY thoughts that having the Democrats in control in the US would favour Europe in the Doha WTO negotiations have been quickly shattered.
Flutter of wings on the Grand Canal
I WAS travelling in my boat on the Grand Canal recently, enjoying the wonderful autumn colours of the trees and shrubs growing along the bank.
Tracing the roots of Irish folklore
DURING the summer, the discovery of what some people believed was a sacred tree, in a church grounds in Rathkeale, Co Limerick, led to sensational headlines that set off a religious frenzy.
Food for thought in one volume
IN 1773, James Boswell declared that ‘man is the cooking animal’; no other creature, he observed, treats food the way we do.
Support your local restaurant
AWARDS are two a penny these times, so much so that they often come and go with minimum publicity.
