TAOISEACH Enda Kenny long ago recognised that “Paddy likes to know what’s going on” so it’s fair to assume that Mr Kenny accepts that Paddy would like to know what might happen in predictable enough circumstances.

IT is a quirk of human nature that we so often struggle to stop doing things that have a negative impact on our health and wellbeing. It is an even more unfathomable quirk that many of us give our children habits around diet and inactivity that can be ruinous to their health.

A PHRASE from less than a decade ago that came to sound like warning drums confirming that the barbarians had indeed breached the gates was “too big to fail”. 

THE terribly premature death of Alex Ryan, 18 years of age, is a terrible tragedy, a waste of a young life, but it is a terrible warning too.

IT is not surprising that the belated and greatly constrained banking inquiry found that both the Financial Regulator and Central Bank had sufficient powers to intervene in the operations of the banking sector to protect the financial stability of the State, but that neither did so decisively.

ONE of the phrases Bertie Ahern must regret — and there may be a few — is the one he used to try to calm a self- fulfilling panic around a collapsing property market.