THE Government has reached agreement with the Irish Medical Organisation on fees to be paid for a contract introducing free GP care for children under the age of six.

IT would have been unthinkable for Cold War warriors such as George W Bush and Fidel Castro to sit down together at the table of brotherhood. 

SINN FÉIN have always insisted that their version of the past is at least as valid as any other — no matter what they imagine it to be. 

ILLEGALLY set hill fires are a regular and disheartening part of our summers and show that a considerable number of people still have a deep disregard for our shared environment and the laws enacted to protect it.

IT’S almost a year since legislation — the Protected Disclosures Act 2014 — to protect whistleblowers came into force but it seems the spirit of that legislation has yet to have as positive an impact it might.

WITH teachers and Education Minister Jan O’Sullivan engaged in a fruitless war of words, worried parents and the country’s leading business organisation, Ibec, are understandably concerned about the long-term impact of this festering dispute on pupils and the whole education system.

CALLING for a permanent memorial to be erected in Dublin to British soldiers who fought and died in the Easter Rising is bound to be a highly sensitive issue.

FIFTY years ago last month, when Martin Luther King led thousands of non-violent protestors across the Edmund Pettus Bridge from Selma to Montgomery, the civil rights movement was born out of a vicious police onslaught on the demonstrators amid what began as a campaign for votes for African Americans. 

LATE last week Taoiseach Enda Kenny said Ireland remains opposed to the idea of a common consolidated corporate tax base. 

NEW legislation on school enrolment consolidates religious authority in our schools and runs contrary to the objectives outlined by the last Minister for Education Ruairi Quinn — a reduction in the level of school patronage by the Catholic Church to something considerably less than the current 90%.