AS OUR world becomes more urbanised, more industrialised and ever more populated it is inevitable that we will have regular and worrying food scares.

ROBERT MUGABE’S presidency has descended into insanity and chaos.

AS IF things were not bad enough already, the country found itself in another fine mess over the weekend with the announcement that all pork products dating back to the beginning of September are being withdrawn, because some pig meat contained potentially dangerous levels of the cancer-causing dioxin, Polychlorinated-biphenyl (PCB).

TOXINS, such as chromium, have been found in and around the dump known as the East Tip on Haulbowline Island, but these do not pose a immediate threat to local residents, according to a report of Government-appointed consultants.

IT SEEMS we’ve swapped the tyranny of the crozier for the far more subversive tyranny of political correctness.

EVEN a short visit to any of our great western lakes or most any river will show that we are not good custodians of our natural heritage.

THE criminal justice system has often been a cruel place for victims.

IN football management, as in any leadership role, timing is everything.

The shouting in the Dáil may entertain a few, but for the vast majority of people it is a turn-off.

There has been an explosion in the rate of sexually transmitted infections (STI) throughout Ireland in recent years, according to statistics compiled by the Royal College of Physicians in Ireland.