Yesterday’s Supreme Court ruling that “extensive passages” in the Government’s information booklet and website about tomorrow’s referendum were in breach of rules designed to ensure a fair, equal, and impartial playing field in the debate on the issue raises many questions.

We warmly welcome the re-election of Barack Obama as president of the US.

There was a time, not so very long ago, when it was said that children should be seen and not heard.

The decision to locate the national children’s hospital at Dublin’s St James’s Hospital is to be welcomed, not because the location is head and shoulders above other options but because this saga has dragged on for far too long.

Michael Lowry has long had difficulty in aligning himself with what most people accept as reality.

Just over three million Irish people are eligible to vote in next Saturday’s children’s referendum.

For the first time in more than a decade the anniversary of the ending of the Great War will coincide with Remembrance Sunday, a day on which millions gather in Britain and on the continent to pay homage to those who died in the “war to end all wars”.

Today’s Irish Examiner carries four reports which, while addressing very different issues, should be seen by those charged with charting the way forward for this Republic in very much the same context.

Yesterday marked the final of the FAI’s blue riband domestic soccer competition, the FAI Senior Cup.

At the funeral this week of 13-year-old Erin Gallagher, who took her own life in reaction to cyberbullying, Fr John Joe Duffy called on all agencies of the State to get together to draw up a policy to ensure that no other child suffers from cyberbullying.