Despite official government insistence to the contrary, the drum beats are getting louder for an attack on the Croke Park Agreement.

The findings of the latest National Suicide Research Foundation study highlight the complexity of the tragedy that is suicide.

IRELAND is no place to be ill — especially if you’re elderly.

THE tragic events off the West Cork coast have brought home to the nation the arduous lives of fishermen who go to sea in all weathers in pursuit of a livelihood.

IT appears a seismic shift is taking place in Irish attitudes to the Holy See.

COMMUNITIES have every reason to decry the decision to withdraw funding from a confidential national phone line service combating drug dealing at local level.

This Government continues to demonstrate its enormous facility for making U-turns, not only with its election promises, but also with plans announced after deliberate consideration.

The British Irish Council meeting at Dublin Castle, which concluded yesterday, has been decried as a talking shop.

WILL nobody stop the political gravy train? With the country up to its eyes in debt, it is disgraceful that 26 Independent senators and TDs are receiving annual allowances of thousands of euro at the taxpayers’ expense — utterly unvouched and untaxed.

THE scale of impending job losses at Ulster Bank has sent shockwaves through the 6,000-strong workforce and is further evidence of the perilous state of our financial institutions.