The Irish Association of Pension Funds (IAPF) was warned at its conference in Dublin that people are not paying enough attention to their pensions.

The High Court ruled that the National Park and Wildlife Services (NPWS) is entitled to insist that jarveys using Killarney National Park will have to use dung-catching devices for their horses.

Relations between wayward youngsters and the Garda Síochána are often a charade in which antisocial behaviour in defying the gardaí becomes a means of achieving social status in communities where relations with the gardaí are adversarial.

The National Consumer Agency has released the finding of a study comparing prices of 251 doctors and dentists in 11 urban centres. The findings are a disgrace.

ARCHBISHOP Diarmuid Martin should name the “strong forces” in the Catholic Church who want the truth about child sexual abuse to remain hidden. He should say if they are Irish or international – or both.

SPEAKING in Bantry last summer the wonderful American writer Annie Proulx said one of the things that fascinated her about Ireland was trying to understand why West Cork people who emigrated to Wyoming – where she then lived – in the 1850s were so utterly destructive of the environment around them.

Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation Batt O’Keeffe announced yesterday that he is to chair a high-level implementation group to deal with the recommendations in the report of the innovation taskforce published in March.

The publication of the new Lonely Planet guide booklet, Discover Ireland, is a timely reminder of our own natural resources.

ONE of rugby’s more articulate and qualified commentators – the great Australian out-half Michael Lynagh – once said during a preview of one of Munster’s European Cup do-or-die extravaganzas that hope had no place in professional sport.

A TRULY disheartening aspect of our current difficulties for the tens of thousands of people who have lost jobs or businesses, or those who have seen share and pension values destroyed, is the absolute failure of regulatory systems, private and public.