So many of the weaknesses that undermine our way of doing things come together around housing, especially rented housing, that no matter how you try to infuse your Monday with a determination to walk on the sunny side of the street the scale of the challenge is so daunting that it cannot be ignored. 

In a recent, and excellent, BBC documentary, Inside Obama’s White House, President Obama’s frustration at his inability to make real change to America’s gun laws is obvious and convincing. 

FOR just over a century, fingerprinting has played a pivotal role in the resolution of crimes and the administration of justice. The process is such an effective tool that criminals, the blue-collar kind anyway, regard gloves as essential.

THE ink is hardly dry on the UN report that criticised our laws regarding abortion, and Taoiseach Enda Kenny is already kicking it to touch, hoping to sideline the issue for as long as is possible.

IN less than a fortnight around 65 million British people will have an opportunity to vote on whether or not they wish to continue to be a part of the warts-and-all European project. Because the vote is seen as a once-in-a-lifetime crossroads strident arguments, not always rooted in rational thought, basic human generosity or objective calculation, have been knowingly made by both sides.

THE report published yesterday into the Loughinisland massacre, in which six Catholic men were murdered by UVF gunmen in a bar as they watched Ireland play Italy in the 1994 World Cup, vindicates the victims’ relatives determination to prove there was official collusion with the killers and that an earlier report was inaccurate.