EMBRACING technology to ensure that justice is done is always a welcome step.

There were 361 crimes reported against some 620 tourists in this country last year, according to figures released yesterday by a support group for visitors.

For many Elizabeth Taylor was the face of Hollywood fantasy. Born in London of American parents in 1932, she rose to prominence aged 12 in National Velvet and remained in the limelight throughout the bulk of her life, until her death yesterday at the age of 79.

SO, at long, long last the Moriarty Tribunal’s report has been published.

THERE is a common root to the terrible hardships facing the people of Japan and Libya.

MAINTAINING a degree of privacy in a world where intimacy and even the idea of privacy are relentlessly under siege is becoming ever more difficult.

MORALLY speaking, it is beyond question that the assault by allied forces on Libya is a just cause.

CONVINCING other EU states that the beleaguered Irish people can’t afford to pay penal interest rates on a multi-billion euro bailout will not be an easy task.

PRESIDENT Barack Obama’s visit in May will evoke memories of other celebrated visits of American presidents.

RESCUING the economy is going to take much more than government action.