DO we really want a random collection of unqualified TDs investigating the most calamitous financial disaster in the history of the State?

WHAT do David Cameron, Barack Obama and Leo Varadkar have in common?

JIMMY CARR, the comedian who made his career out of politically incorrect one-liners, found himself the butt of jokes last week after his “morally wrong” tax avoidance was splashed all over the papers.

MY first job after leaving college was in customer service, listening to people ranting and raving down a phone line for most of the day.

THE intangible thing that most defines all of our lives is power — our proximity to it and our possession, or lack, of it.

IT WAS nice while it lasted.

TOMORROW, the nation goes to the polls to decide the fate of the Fiscal Treaty and, whatever the result, at least we can imminently look forward to the end of one of the most unedifying political campaigns in recent memory.

THE hubris of Communication Minister Pat Rabbitte, who recently lambasted the quality of political journalism in this country, would be a lot easier to take seriously if the nation hadn’t been lumbered with such a headline-grabbing array of greedy and grasping incompetents in Leinster House for at least the last 30 years.

THE most pernicious myth gaining traction as draconian cutbacks are implemented across a range of vital public services is the myth of meritocracy.

WORD from the rarified surrounds of Seanad Éireann, the crèche that cares for the oldest and boldest children in the country, that the rations are low and the natives are restless.