THE Irish Language Commissioner Rónán Ó Domhnaill’s disappointment with Government efforts to promote Irish across the public service may be justified, but it is unlikely his concern is shared by too many people. 

THE Irish Language Commissioner Rónán Ó Domhnaill’s disappointment with Government efforts to promote Irish across the public service may be justified, but it is unlikely his concern is shared by too many people. 

AN unprecedented proportion of students now attend third- level institutions and this is, by and large, a very good thing. 

Johnny Turk, he was ready, he primed himself well. 

THE kindness of strangers took on a new, less comforting meaning for Greece yesterday when eurozone finance ministers warned that it will not get any more financial support until a complete economic reform plan is agreed.

THE death of 14 people, when they were hit by a night-time express train as they walked along a remote river gorge in Macedonia, is another reminder of what may be one of the pressing issues of the age — migration.

LAST year, when the excitement around the appointment of Seanad hopeful and Donegal petrol station owner John McNulty to the board of the Irish Museum of Modern Art died down, the Government knew that it could ill-afford another self-inflicted, embarrassing, and stinking-to-high-heaven controversy.

THIS week two members of the Dáil, Mick Wallace and Clare Daly, were convicted of entering a restricted area at Shannon Airport.

IT would not be surprising if the family of Paudie O’Leary, a 42 year-old father of four who was killed in a hit-and-run accident in July 2012 outside Killarney, the people of Kerry and the gardaí who worked so hard to see that Shane Fitzgerald was convicted for the crime, were surprised if not angry with the sentenced imposed on him yesterday.

NOT before time, a campaign has been launched to criminalise the men who use prostitutes for sex in Ireland.