IT’S just over decade since the country benefited from Charlie McCreevy’s if-I-have-it-I-spend-it brand of housekeeping but a legacy from our wild Bollinger days was discussed at the Public Accounts Committee yesterday. The hearing did not show our country in a particularly good light.

ONE of the privileges of living in this democracy is that you have a right to protest, to disagree and to expect that your arguments be considered. 

THERE are strong indications that the Government will not sell the State’s 25.1% stake in Aer Lingus to International Consolidated Airlines Group (IAG) even though the group, under former Aer Lingus chief executive Willie Walsh, has offered €1.36bn for the former national carrier.

FINE GAEL’S Mayo TD Michelle Mulherin won her seat by clinging to the coat tails of Taoiseach Enda Kenny at the last election.

I believe in the sun though it is late in rising. I believe in love though it is absent. I believe in God though He is silent.

SPEAKING to the Council of Europe in Strasbourg yesterday President Michael D Higgins touched on many issues but none more pertinent than how sovereign states regain control of the economic forces that shape our lives.

IN A country with a stretched and sometimes chaotic health system, private health insurance is almost mandatory for those who can afford it.

Sometimes, no matter what structures and safeguards a business or organisation puts in place, things will go wrong. 

The proposed Aer Lingus takeover offer from the British Airways parent company International Airlines Group (IAG) is expected to come before Cabinet today.

The election of an anti-austerity party to power in Greece may seem at first as if the lunatics have taken over the asylum whereas it could be the very thing to bring sanity to European Union finances. The election result should come as no surprise, considering that more than a quarter of the Greek population is without a job and youth unemployment remains above 50%.