This week’s government report that angling and angling tourism are worth over €0.75bn — and 10,000 rural jobs — to the economy every year is very welcome.

Before condemning Australia’s hard-line response to asylum seekers we should consider our own position on the growing problem.

The Catholic Church is as imaginative and determined as any fallen Celtic Tiger high roller when it comes to trying to protect assets.

The abuse hurled at Minister for Communications Pat Rabbitte while he was enjoying a drink after his day’s work in a Dublin pub is utterly unacceptable.

The Money Advice and Budgeting Service (Mabs) was established to advice people in financial distress.

Social media is having a negative effect on children and teenagers in Ireland, a cross-party group of TDs and senators warned yesterday. The Office of Internet Safety is not even trying to deal with cyberbullying.

It is unfortunate and disheartening that events of recent days have underlined again how very removed from ordinary life our political system and our politicians are.

Contributions to a debate on reform of our free legal aid system at a Limerick County Council meeting will be widely supported.

Very few of us have the magnanimity, the selflessness or humanity needed to break the cycle of hatred and bias perpetuated by tribal, racial or religious legacies.

Just as the funerals of the brothers murdered in Mayo last week were under way news of another attack on an elderly couple came to light.