Communications Minister Eamon Ryan announced a number of changes yesterday involving television licensing that will be incorporated into the forthcoming broadcasting bill.

Giovanni TRAPATTONI, the new Irish soccer manager, gave his first press conference in this country yesterday.

The Taoiseach’s speech yesterday had the potential for a monumental anticlimax.

THE uncovering of medical records by railroad construction workers in the Glounthaune area between Cork and Midleton yesterday raises serious questions that must be answered.

The incoming president of the Garda Representative Association (GRA), Michael O’Boyce, launched a blistering and emotive attack on the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (GSOC) at the GRA’s annual conference in Carlow yesterday.

Some of the media have been publishing lists of inflated prices at which property has supposedly been sold by private treaty after certain agents provided exaggerated prices of property in order to inflate the price at which they might sell other property.

The Wexford 24/7 Suicide Action group has condemned the minister, the Health Service Executive and its leadership as “a disgrace” because “absolutely nothing” has been done in the past year to improve facilities for those troubled people who contemplate suicide and the destruction of their loved ones.

For generations this state has enjoyed a relatively compatible population in cultural terms.

WE should call our politicians to account for their deliberate attempts to deceive us about the true nature of the Lisbon treaty and their contrivance to manipulate the information we receive so as to influence us without our knowledge.

SIGNIFICANT questions concerning the problems increasingly besetting Irish society today are again raised by yet another tragedy in a rural community, another senseless act of violence with all the hallmarks of a murder-suicide atrocity, another appalling series of events that have seen yet another young family wiped out.