THE picture of a young man, believed to be 28-year-old Andreas Lubitz, sitting calmly beside San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge is a classic image of the proverbial ‘boy next door’.

IT becomes harder by the day to divine what decision-makers at Irish Water are thinking.

NOT before time, the Diageo boss in Ireland, David Smith, has withdrawn from the board of an alcohol awareness campaign established last month and which the international drinks conglomerate is funding to the tune of €1m.

IF hurling was an international game, there can be no doubt Henry Shefflin would share a pedestal with the likes of soccer star Lionel Messi of Barcelona and world number one golfer Rory McIlroy.

IT seems that the Government has finally accepted that if the water charge regime is to succeed and sustain its legitimacy, then they must establish a mechanism to collect the charge from those who can pay but refuse to.

THE discovery of antibiotics probably changed our world more than anything other than the invention of the wheel, money, or the myriad uses we found for oil.

TALKS on low pay open at the Low Pay Commission today. 

TOMORROW marks the first anniversary of the resignation — though that description hardly seems plausible when all of the factors are considered — of former Garda Commissioner Martin Callinan.

ONE-IN-FOUR of French voters in Sunday’s first round of local elections endorsed Marine Le Pen’s far right National Front. 

A COLLABORATION between the Crawford Art Gallery in Cork and Allied Irish Banks will bring some of the best of Irish art created in the last century to London for a prestigious exhibition in May.