WHILE fire safety regulations at Priory Hall in Donaghmede may have been agreed at the planning stage of this rogue development, the question is whether they were checked at all during construction, before completion of a time-bomb apartment block.

IN a world where information was never more readily available an effective, independent, reliable and properly funded public-interest broadcaster is a vital player in the public life needed to sustain a strong democracy.

IT is tragic that up to 35 children or teenagers, known to protection services, have died since March of last year.

EVEN in the best of times, the prospect of discovering a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow can excite and distract.

FIGURES provided to the Dáil reveal that 5,400 people have been sent to jail this year for not paying fines.

LAST February Fianna Fáil and the Greens felt the wrath of an angry and vengeful electorate. Both parties were decimated and their survival, not to mention their relevance, remains in question.

AN Irish League of Credit Unions (ILCU) survey paints a grim picture of how the recession is changing the lives of so many Irish people.

YESTERDAY afternoon’s speech by the Financial Regulator Matthew Elderfield, and his earlier meeting with lenders where he warned about the imposition of further interest rate increases, leaves the banks in no doubt about what is expected of them in resolving the growing mortgage crisis.

TOURISM is one of the sectors we rely on to generate some growth and optimism around our economy.

NEARLY all the conflicting aspects of our relationship with the European Union can be found one way or another in the Common Agriculture Policy (CAP).