DESPITE the earnest but constrained Banking Inquiry, doubts linger about the role played by senior bankers up to, during, and after the economic implosion of 2008 — the one that will cost this small country the bones of €100bn before all associated debts are discharged.

WHEN, in 1980, the late Lord Denning made his infamous “an appalling vista” remark, about the integrity of the convictions of the Birmingham Six and Guildford Four, his great concern, later confirmed, was that a trusted, essential arm of the state — Britain’s Midlands Police — had lied to secure those dishonest convictions.

A SHUTDOWN of the Luas service in Dublin seems inevitable following the company’s decision to place staff on protective notice, threaten them with pay cuts to cover the costs of their industrial action, and offer them less than the deal drivers have already refused.

THE death of Portuguese fighter João Carvalho, because of injuries he sustained during a mixed martial arts fight with Charlie ‘The Hospital’ Ward at the National Stadium last Saturday night is a tragedy.