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Another bruising lesson for Kenny

IRELAND is a small country with a small population.

Sat, 04 Jun, 2016

A welcome forced through gritted teeth

WHEN Donald Trump last visited Ireland, our Minister for Finance Michael Noonan abjected himself and stood waiting, like an anxious branch manager awaiting an inspection from head office, on airport red carpet ready to greet The Donald.

Sat, 04 Jun, 2016

It’s algae time again

THE invasion of one of the Lakes of Killarney — Lough Lein — by a noxious algae is now as much a harbinger of summer as the far more welcome return of swallows to the Muckross shore. 

Sat, 04 Jun, 2016

Too much at stake for us to stay silent - Three weeks to Britain’s exit vote

IN three weeks time British Prime Minister David Cameron’s political career could be, by any meaningful criteria, over. Should Britain, on June 23, vote to leave the EU his position as Conservative party leader would be untenable.

Fri, 03 Jun, 2016

Detachment and inertia - Housing plan deferred

ONE of the few pronouncements that Bertie Ahern made that might still win universal approval was that it “takes far too long to get anything done in this country”. 

Fri, 03 Jun, 2016

A perfect cure - EU move on drug prices

IT is, of course, easy to dismiss as far too expensive a drug that might cost an estimated €158,000 a year per patient.

Fri, 03 Jun, 2016

Bombing was the greater injustice - Murder inquests

A BRITISH coroner has ordered fresh inquests into the IRA Birmingham pub bombings in November 1974. The decision was taken following a campaign by the relatives of the 21 people killed when bombs exploded in two pubs within ten minutes of each other.

Thu, 02 Jun, 2016

Malady of health committees - Is there an end to our ‘Angola’?

MINISTER Simon Harris has tabled a motion in the Dáil to establish a special committee in the Oireachtas to look at “a singular vision for the health service over the next 10 years”.

Thu, 02 Jun, 2016

Irish interfering with Brexit - Let British decide for themselves

THERE is something deeply unsettling at the sight of senior Irish politicians travelling to the UK to tell people there how they should vote in the in-out EU referendum later this month.

Thu, 02 Jun, 2016