DAVID HALL, the external examiner appointed to look into finances and governance at the charity Console, has said that malpractice highlighted by RTÉ will never happen again.

A WEEK ago tomorrow, Britain voted, by a narrow margin, to leave the European Union. 

LUKE FITZGERALD, the wonderful Leinster, Ireland, and British and Irish Lions rugby player, has been forced to retire prematurely from professional sport at the relatively early age of 28.

ONE of the valid accusations made by those who wanted Britain to quit the EU before last Thursday’s epoch-defining vote was that the union had become far less democratic than is necessary to sustain a union of almost 30 countries, big or small, affluent or less so. 

YESTERDAY’S decision by the American supreme court to strike down Texas abortion limits is a reminder to our Government that even when the Brexit Gordian Knot is undone, another controversial and unavoidable issue awaits their attention.

THERE are as many reasons for the Brexit vote as there are lilies in the valley but the failure — or is it really the inability? — to protect Britain’s working class from the straitening impositions of globalisation is certainly one. Another is the perception that social services are not as effective a security blanket as they once were.

“The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new”