The first element in fighting crime is to recognise the crimes that have taken place. To do this it is critical that people report crimes and not make the mistake of assuming that this would be more trouble than it is worth because nothing would happen.

Meath-born Richard Corrigan — who made a name for himself in the restaurant business in London by trading on the pride that native customers took in good English food — is bringing the formula for his business success to Dublin.

THE past two decades have seen change — constant change — in the composition of our society. Immigration has changed this country probably forever.

DESPITE all the readjustments and savings, the government is to pay consultants to consider the issues surrounding private health insurance.

“Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic, individually and in concert with others, planned, instigated, ordered or otherwise aided and abetted in the planning, preparation or execution of unlawful attacks against the civilian population and individual civilians with weapons such as mortars, rockets and artillery... They are criminally responsible for the unlawful confinement, murder, rape, sexual assault, torture, beating, robbery and inhumane treatment of civilians.”

YESTERDAY afternoon’s conviction of three men — a fourth man had earlier pleaded guilty — in the Dunlough Bay cocaine case raises serious concerns for us all.

NOT since Margaret Thatcher’s intransigence and contempt for the republican cause, peaceful or violent, made her the Provos’ best recruiting sergeant in the 1980s has the intervention of a foreign political leader in Irish affairs had such potential for disaster as yesterday’s visit by the French President Nicholas Sarkozy.

MARY HANAFIN, the Minister for Social Welfare, is to be congratulated in her efforts to confront fraud within the system by ending the practice of paying unemployment entitlements directly into new claimants’ bank accounts.

As A result of inflation the cost of the typical weekly trolley at a supermarket has increased by 9.5%, which comes to an extra €400 for year.

You wait for a bus for what seems like ages and then two come along together.