The prediction at that time was that over the following nine years we would need 600,000 new homes to keep pace with vociferous demand. This year it looks as if there will be just 2,000 built in the Dublin area.

Leo Varadkar has done the impossible — he has brought hope that our battered and broken health system can be fixed writes Alison O’Connor

I’VE surprised myself by feeling a little sorry for former Fianna Fáil junior minister Ivor Callely this week.

THE birds are angry. That is good news. Their anger can be put to good use.

THE matter of who will be our Minister for Health following the impending reshuffle should be of grave concern to all of us.

NOT for the first time, I find myself wondering why Micheál Martin doesn’t tell the Fianna Fáil parliamentary party to simply shove it.

I DON’T know what the broadband speed is like in Islandeady, Co Mayo, but I hope it is sufficiently fast to allow for a little internet surfing on exotic holiday destinations.

NOBODY can accuse us Irish of lacking when it comes to expressing our "public outrage".

TODAY I write in praise of Health Minister James Reilly. I can imagine others reading that sentence and reckoning that I am in need of assistance from the State’s mental health services.

POLITICS can be a sad business, and I don’t just mean for the electorate. There was a palpable air of sadness in Iveagh House last Monday as Eamon Gilmore announced that he was going to stand down as leader of the Labour Party.