Earlier this month, it was reported that the number of senior managers in the health service has grown by almost 40% since 2013.

Science, especially geriatric medicine, wealth, security, and public heath systems have made the description of a reasonable life offered by the Psalms — The days of our years are threescore years and ten — seem little more than a prelude.

Speaking at a Confirmation ceremony 60 years ago, then Bishop of Cork, the infamously conservative and hardline Connie Lucey, warned that all “was not well in Ireland”.

Very few organisations rely on public support like a police force; credibility is a core currency. 

Hollywood’s back catalogue has too many films about how power can push people to the edge of sanity or even beyond. 

There is hardly a scandal undermining the confidence we can have in public affairs that might not have been avoided if we had a proactive, effective, and respected culture of accountability. 

Last year we celebrated one of the foundation events of this Republic. During the year some people questioned the validity and outcomes of 1916. Those reservations were drowned like a litter of unwanted pups in a sea of flag-waving and cheers. 

ANY parent who still basks under the illusion that the internet is nothing more than a fun place for younger teenagers to enjoy should take account of the words of the father of a young Irish girl who was contacted online by a cunning Canadian paedophile and seduced into having sex with him.

WHAT did it take for Oscar Munoz, the boss of United Airlines in America, to finally offer an apology to the passenger dragged violently off a plane that his airline had overbooked?

MORE than 1,400 years ago the rocky outcrop of Skellig Michael in Kerry became home to a small group of men seeking religious solitude and isolation on one of the most extraordinary islands on earth.