THE problem about agreeing on paper to save the planet is the difficulty of actually getting down to the business of doing it in reality.

WITH the 18,000 members of the powerful ASTI secondary teachers’ union poised to vote on whether or not to embark on yet another campaign of industrial action, the prospect of school closures has increased following Saturday’s decision to ballot more than half of the country’s second-level teachers.

WITH Irish people living longer, it is very worrying to learn that the obesity crisis now affecting children and middle aged people is also impacting on the elderly. 

Criticism of the dominance of Dublin in the political, economic, and social life of the country is often seen as little more than sour grapes on the part of rural Ireland.

FOR the second time in as many days, a charity at the coalface of homelessness in Ireland warns the number of people using its services has reached an all-time high.