The Law Reform Commission’s report on Personal Debt Management and Debt Enforcement is being published today.

WHEN Bertie Ahern, at the height of his considerable pomp, admitted he appointed people to state boards for no reason other than they were his friends it confirmed what had been apparent for a very long time.

THE organisers of the Irish Open, and the world-class Irish players who support them, are to be congratulated on their pluck and vision.

IN a fiscal crisis riddled by a litany of incredible failures, pressure is mounting on thousands of homeowners struggling to make ends meet following a claim that Ireland’s €35 billion bailout failed to take defaults on mortgage payments into account.

THE controversy surrounding the Wikileaks claim that Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams and the North’s Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness knew in advance about the Northern Bank robbery in 2004 goes to the heart of a debate on the role of journalism.

WITH only 12 days to Christmas, beleaguered families are now coming under intense pressure to spend money they haven’t got.

GIVEN Ireland’s atrocious record of child sexual abuse, it is appalling to learn there are no dedicated specialist services to examine, interview and support children who have been thus abused or assaulted.

ONE of our comfort blankets during the decade of hubris was the belief that we had a premier grade education system producing an endless stream of world-class graduates.

THE Dublin City Coroner yesterday found that Gerry Ryan died of heart failure probably triggered by cocaine. Ryan’s death, like any other in similar circumstances, was tragic.

NO matter how, despite the greatest economic collapse in the history of the State, individuals try to be positive, another skeleton topples from the Celtic tiger’s wardrobe to knock us back on our heels.