Figures given in the Dáil by Health Minister Mary Harney in response to a parliamentary question indicate that 21,000 people cancelled their private health insurance during the first six months of 2009.

Cathal O’Shea, who lost 21 stone in weight in just over a year as a result of a regime of dieting, exercise and eating healthy food, has been inundated with calls from people seeking his advice on losing weight. He is planning to work professionally in the area of weight loss motivation.

RADOVAN KARADZIC stands indicted of 11 counts of war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide.

IF travel does broaden the mind the generation of Irish people approaching adulthood will be far more sophisticated, worldly wise and urbane than any gone before.

MANY of us were lucky enough to have spent some time in the countryside over the bank holiday weekend.

A SCEPTIC once described Third World aid as a poor man in a rich country giving money to a rich man in a poor country.

SO this is what it feels like to be stuck in a car careering towards the edge of a cliff.

EVERY year, when Leaving Certificate results are published, we have fret about why the great majority of our children seem so daunted by higher level maths.

“The journey over the last two years has been truly remarkable. There are champions for children in the Church who deserve the highest praise. They are at all levels ... There is a sense of purpose and commitment which is increasingly evident ... We are in a very different place to where we where two years ago.” - Ian Elliott, CEO, NSCC

THE Green Party’s insistence that third-level college fees not be reintroduced may have bruised Education Minister Batt O’Keeffe’s standing but if he persists with measures that damage Protestant schools he will have severely damaged his own and what is left of his government’s reputation.