THE Irish-American politician the late Tip O’Neill said that all politics are local.

NOWHERE is our dysfunctional relationship with our environment more obvious than in our polluted and greatly abused waterways.

EVER since Erskine Childers sailed the first Asgard and a cargo of 9,000 rifles and 26,000 rounds of ammunition into Howth, on July 26, 1914, for the Irish Volunteers, the name has occupied a prominent place in the Irish consciousness.

A PRESSURE group has been established to highlight the need for research and information about Health Care Acquired Infections, especially MRSA, VRE, and Clostridium Difficile.

People have a democratic right to protest against decisions or developments that they do not like, or think will be harmful for their community.

THERE is a growing recognition that the age of cheap, or in our case free, domestic water is coming to an end.

THE great wave of immigration into Ireland over the past decade has largely been a positive experience.

IT IS 50 years since Bord Fáilte — now Fáilte Ireland — built the national Tidy Towns initiative on foundations laid by the National Spring Clean Campaign, which ran between 1953 and 1957. In the competition’s first year there were a mere 52 entrants.

TWO meetings took place yesterday and though they are not directly connected each will have an impact on our economy, albeit at different levels.

THE impact some industrialised food is having on our health — and our day-to-day economic survival as the chicken farmers of the south-east are learning — will be highlighted again in an Institute of Public Health report in November.