There is a clear public outcry for the resignation of Cardinal Seán Brady, but it may be in the public interest that he has not resigned already, because there are issues involved that should be examined seriously.

The RTÉ Authority was yesterday fined €200,000 by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland over serious breaches of the Broadcasting Act.

Some of the data published in the first extracts from our most recent census shows that over 80% of Irish people describe themselves as Catholic.

The retirement of Garryowen, Munster, Ireland and British and Irish Lions forward David Wallace breaks a link with Irish teams stretching back more than two decades.

It seemed incredible in 1994 that the cover-up involving the paedophile activities of Fr Brendan Smyth had been going on for 19 years by the time it brought down the government of Albert Reynolds.

We have long imagined or simply wanted to believe that the inherent goodness and honesty of the great majority of people is a robust enough buttress against the obvious and eternal corruption all around us.

A new survey on red squirrel populations points to an inexorable decline and the very real prospect of the extinction of a native species.

Today, May 1, was, for those of us old enough to remember, one of the great set pieces of the Cold War’s propaganda battles.

Negotiations between Government and public sector unions begin at the Labour Relations Commission tomorrow.

Apart from the death of a child there can be nothing as heartbreaking as the disappearance of one.