ENDA KENNY once declared that “we all went a bit mad with borrowing” during the Celtic Tiger years.

FOUR years on from Alan Shatter’s attempts to revamp the legal profession, the Legal Services Regulation Bill is on the cusp of becoming law.

IRISH people have a regrettable tendency to gloat over the misfortunes of others, especially when the target of their begrudgery is a person who has achieved greater success in life than themselves. 

AS the Irish Government considers sending relief peacekeepers to free French soldiers to fight against the self-styled Islamic State, last night saw musicians from the four corners of Ireland offer support of a different kind in Dublin’s St Patrick’s Cathedral.

ENOCH POWELL, the staunchly Conservative British politician, once reflected that “all political lives, unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure”. Peter Robinson is about to become an honourable exception.

TANÁISTE Joan Burton has accused opposition parties of being trigger-happy in seeking commissions of inquiry ‘into anything and everything.’