AS anyone who bought a car two or three years ago will confirm many cars are cheaper today than they were then. These price reductions and scrappage schemes may have saved the car industry and contributed to the 30% increase in sales in January.

NOT every parent who has reviewed how their young child uses social networking sites has been shocked or disappointed but more than enough have.

GERRY ADAMS’ platform is the past.

IN so many ways history, like drink, is the curse of the Irish.

THERE is a maddening predisposition in public service agencies to spend taxpayers’ money on outside companies and consultants rather than rely on their own resources, especially when those resources are readily available.

WITH the election campaign hotting up, auction politics is now the name of the game.

THREE weeks from today it will be all over bar the counting. The country will have voted and unless our pollsters are as divorced from reality as Taoiseach Brian Cowen’s Government seemed to be a Fine Gael/Labour coalition will assume power.

THIS weekend one of the great European sports carnivals begins and the distraction, pleasure and excitement it brings was never more anticipated or needed.

IT is inevitable that the economy is the dominant issue in the election campaign — how could it be otherwise?