THERE was a chilling coincidence around yesterday’s funeral of Captain Mark Duffy, who died when the Coast Guard helicopter crashed off the coast of Mayo 18 days ago.

THERE is hardly an organisation in the country under closer scrutiny than An Garda Síochána. 

Old-school journalists may lament the day when newspaper reports were often stated to be ‘from our own correspondent’. 

THE results of our survey of the views of teenagers are both disturbing and revealing.

WHEN Transport Minister Shane Ross prepared to appear before the Oireachtas Committee on Transport yesterday, he had a choice of mode of transport: he could have taken a bus to Leinster House from his home or his constituency office in south Dublin or strolled the brisk walk from his department’s main office on Leeson Lane to Kildare Street. 

THIS is a significant day for Europe but it is a day of seismic significance for Britain and those who live in Britain’s orbit. 

SCIENCE sometimes gets things wrong. 

THE announcement yesterday by Taoiseach Enda Kenny of an external investigation into the latest Garda controversies was probably greeted with wry, knowing smiles in the officers’ mess in the Garda Phoenix Park HQ.

FOR generations this society, the more polite tiers of it anyway, avoided conflict by dodging red-button issues. 

ANY hope that yesterday’s press conference by Garda Commissioner Nóirín O’Sullivan might be more reassuring that her unsatisfactory statement on Saturday was misplaced.