THE revelation that over €25m was spent last year housing homeless families in emergency accommodation in Dublin is an indictment of the housing policies adopted by successive governments since the early 1990s.

WHEN US President Barack Obama first took office in January 2009 the first executive order he signed was for the closure of the detention centre at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.

THERE have been few if any international security operations that have failed as spectacularly as the endless war on drugs. The major drug cartels operate with something approaching impunity and wreak havoc in the societies they target despite years of concerted international effort.

MICHAEL LOWRY yesterday lost a High Court bid to stop his trial on tax charges.

BY any criteria, by any standard of decency, today’s report that more than 20,000 children are waiting for a hospital appointment, that some children have to wait more than two years for an MRI scan and that 250 children have waited up to two years for life-recovering orthopaedic surgery is another terrible, shaming indictment of this society.