IN a world where so many people so viciously elbow for their 15 seconds of fame it is almost unheard of that a person should make a conscious decision to step away from the red carpets and the attendant burlesque.

REPRESENTATIVES of more than 40 governments or international bodies met in London yesterday to discuss the crisis in Libya.

THE world faces a huge food challenge over the coming decades. Production will have to double if the world’s poorest are not to face a very uncertain time.

AS our collective history reminds us almost too often life as an emigrant is never easy.

AS religious observation, or at least the observation of Christianity, declines all across Europe it seems inevitable that arrangements that once recognised the central position of religion in societies are being reviewed.

THOUGH poverty affects lives in every town and city, the awful impact it has on people’s lives is seen at its starkest, and sometimes its most brutal, in Limerick.

AS a society we are paying a huge price for turning a blind eye to very many practices that bordered on the dishonest.

JUSTICE Minister Alan Shatter could not have chosen a better week to announce that our legislation designed to prosecute white-collar crime will be strengthened.

THE Green Party meets this weekend to pick over their election bones and consider its future.

ANY hopes Taoiseach Enda Kenny had of getting a cheaper IMF-EU rescue package at the EU summit in Brussels are gone for the moment at least.