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Lifeline for rural communities - Saving isolated post offices

Lifeline for rural communities - Saving isolated post offices

THE sorry saga around rural decline is at least as long-running as suggestions that the Shannon might be drained. 

Fri, 22 Jan, 2016

A matter of trust - Phone tapping

A matter of trust - Phone tapping

THE Department of Justice confirmation that An Garda Síochána was granted permission to review more than 11,500 phone records and internet logs in 2013 and 2014 just adds to the urgency around regularising this practice by putting independent, authorative oversight in place.

Fri, 22 Jan, 2016

Curtail drug sale - Illegal drugs on the internet

Curtail drug sale - Illegal drugs on the internet

CONSIDERING the easy and relatively cheap availability of mood-altering substances like alcohol, it is beyond belief that there are still many people who risk their lives and those of others in order to achieve an illegal high.

Thu, 21 Jan, 2016

Kenny needs to secure takeoff - Flights to US from Cork

Kenny needs to secure takeoff - Flights to US from Cork

THE Government appears to have kicked to touch the issue of whether Cork Airport can look forward to offering transatlantic flight this summer.

Thu, 21 Jan, 2016

Need to be prepared for job losses - Taoiseach at Davos

Need to be prepared for job losses - Taoiseach at Davos

IT MAY seem a little presumptuous on the part of the Taoiseach to be attending a gathering of world leaders in the Swiss alpine resort of Davos.

Thu, 21 Jan, 2016

Legislators and GSOC have failed - Snooping on journalists

Legislators and GSOC have failed - Snooping on journalists

IT is entirely appropriate that Taoiseach Enda Kenny should rebuke the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission for secretly examining the phone records — and possibly emails — of journalists over a minor complaint in a case that had absolutely nothing to do with State security or organised crime.

Wed, 20 Jan, 2016

Too big to be sustainable? - Managing supertrawlers

Too big to be sustainable? - Managing supertrawlers

THE furore caused by the arrival of supertrawlers off our coast is justified but it is significant that those opposing these destructive, industrial-scale harvesters did not find their voice until these machines set their huge nets off our shores. 

Wed, 20 Jan, 2016

HSE indicted - Whistleblowers ignored

HSE indicted - Whistleblowers ignored

TODAY we report that the HSE has, after seven years, accepted its liability in horror cases involving the extreme sexual and physical abuse of disabled children in a foster home in the South-East.

Wed, 20 Jan, 2016

Take the fight to sugar vendors - Confronting the obesity crisis

Take the fight to sugar vendors - Confronting the obesity crisis

THIS is the time of year when any of us who are overweight, once again, yet again, try to find redemption — physical and emotional — attempting to lose weight. 

Tue, 19 Jan, 2016

Pledges on alliances are worthless - After the votes are counted

Pledges on alliances are worthless - After the votes are counted

EUROPE’S monarchies were adept, until World War I at least, at clinging to power — or extending it — by any means possible. Murder — poisoning was a favourite — and marriage were common tactics. Marriages often bordered on the incestuous but such delicacies were easily overlooked in the pursuit of territory or the consolidation of power.

Tue, 19 Jan, 2016