INVARIABLY, when an international corporation establishes an industry in Ireland, the high quality of the education system is mentioned as one of the main reasons for locating here.

ANYONE unfortunate enough to have experienced the overcrowded conditions in Irish hospitals will know just how distressing it is when patients are placed on trolleys in jammed corridors near busy emergency departments.

Justice Minister Alan Shatter yesterday published the annual report of the Irish Prison Service for last year.

Hundreds of young milk producers could be forced out of dairy farming due to mounting super-levy fines that could cost the country tens of millions of euro.

NOBODY likes being lectured about their lifestyle.

POLITICS is all about being in the arena at election time.

WITH the notable exception of Archbishop Diarmuid Martin and a handful of like-minded bishops, it is abundantly clear that many people in this country have lost faith in the hierarchy to deal openly and honestly with the grave issue of child sex abuse.

TOURISM is a bedrock of the Irish economy and so it’s heartening to see the number of visitors to Ireland in the second quarter of the year up almost 250,000.

ON well over 300 days a year, no child is killed on the roads, but that is not considered news. When a child is killed, however, it is news, because it is a tragedy.

REBELS in Tripoli seemed on the brink of victory last night as the regime of Muammar Gaddafi crumbled.