‘KEEP the recovery going’ was the mantra before the last election and, if GDP figures are the matrix you apply, then the recovery has strengthened and that objective is being realised. Last year GDP grew by 5.2%. The unemployment rate stands at just over 7%, the lowest in a decade.

BEHIND every challenge around how we might change our ways to avert climate change lurks the hint of a national cop-out: “We’re too small to make any difference, why should we bother?” That shabby attitude has, unfortunately, informed Government’s plan for cutting carbon emissions.

THE 46km off-road walking and biking trail Waterford Greenway was opened on Saturday.

COMMISSIONER Nóirín O’Sullivan’s Saturday statement on the two latest policing scandals may not be as chilling as her predecessor Martin Callinan’s January 2014 “I think it’s quite disgusting” passive-aggressive attack on whistleblowers but it was as misjudged and, tragically, as revealing.

The use of ambulances from units based up to 80km from Cork City to transfer patients a short distance across campus at Cork University Hospital is not only bizarre but dangerous.

Among the comments made by politicians on the death of Martin McGuinness, the most nuanced was that by Ulster Unionist leader Mike Nesbitt.

Whatever the merits or otherwise of retaining the twice yearly changing of the clocks, ‘springing forward’ on Sunday morning isn’t just about losing an hour’s sleep.

‘Rewilding’ is one of the flavour-of-the-month tags used to cover efforts to save or rejuvenate nature or wildlife struggling to cope with humanity’s destructive and relentless impact.

It has been apparent for some time that a transport strike is inevitable. Bus Éireann is on the cusp of bankruptcy. 

The disturbing revelation that An Garda Síochána carried out just half of the drink-driving breath tests that the force’s records suggested it had completed between 2012 and 2016 is another body blow to what remains of the force’s tattered credibility.