One of the first functions attended by France’s president-elect Emmanuel Macron was an event to mark the end of the Second World War.

Credibility is precious but finite. Without it, we are secondary, marginalised things, drifting in a fog of uncertainty.

Gorse fires can occur naturally, but there is a strong suspicion that many, if not the majority, are as a result of arson designed to clear land for grazing.

Irrespective of whether the complaint that writer and broadcaster Stephen Fry might have committed blasphemy during his 2015 appearance on the RTÉ show The Meaning of Life With Gay Byrne is contrived or not, it shows that the Defamation Act 2009 is ridiculous. 

There are few areas where the market, that unquestionable force, has failed as dramatically as in housing. That failure is evident in the private, social, and rental sectors.

It can only be a matter of time before British prime minster Theresa May accuses some dark European force of trying to influence the UK’s general election by hacking the Conservative party’s computers.

France will elect a president tomorrow and, if the opinion polls are correct, centrist Emmanuel Macron will defeat the National Front’s Marine Le Pen. A poll released yesterday showed that the pro-EU Mr Macron has extended his lead.

This morning, the annual Pieta House Darkness Into Light event will, or has if you’ve lingered abed, involve something around 200,000 people at 150 venues around the world. 

It is an indication of how very low expectations around An Garda Síochána have fallen that, when contradictory evidence is offered to the Oireachtas PAC by Commissioner Nóirín O’Sullivan and the force’s HR director, civilian John Barrett, the situation seems almost unremarkable.

EVEN the most ardent British republican might find it in their heart to wish Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh well in his autumn retirement from public duties.