The anti-water charges movement has ‘jumped the shark’ in the sincerity of its protests, writes Alison O’ Connor.

Micheál Martin has a very valid point when he said he found it amazing that after four years in office the Government’s only policy on media diversity was to avoid having a policy, writes Alison O’ Connor

CHRISTMAS is such a crazy time, particularly if you’re female, and a mother, and you bear primary responsibility for producing the Yuletide spread on the big day.

LET’S raise a glass to the new Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015 which is essentially designed to protect us from ourselves when it comes to our love affair with booze, writes Alison O’Connor.

Alison O’ Connor says we shouldn’t dismiss it as harmless when society judges women on their appearance 

In my days as a young political reporter if you’d asked me the difference between Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil one of my first thoughts would have been: Fianna Fáil are far more craic.

THEY’RE playing it down, of course, but Fianna Fáilers are rather gleeful at present given their rather robust state of political health. All things being relative.

HOW do you solve a problem like the public? That’s the dilemma for the Taoiseach, Enda Kenny, as he faces into a seriously challenging political year.

CHRISTMAS is traditionally when we reflect on the past 12 months and speculate about the future. What feels different about the 2014 political review/scene setter is that there is so much happening that it is difficult to make a prediction of any accuracy about next year.

Will there ever be an end to the sort of the political teasing we are forced to endure?