President Trump made many wild promises before he was elected, all designed to “Make America Great Again” by reversing unstoppable trends in today’s ever more connected and automated world.

The practice of securing a public contract by tendering €X but eventually asking for €X-plus-something-substantial seems well established.

Political polling, at least the kind made public, was once thought of as a science but recent, contrary-to-predictions results have made a reappraisal of polling methodology necessary.

AUTOMATION has made millions of blue-collar workers redundant.

OVER recent days at least six schoolboy rugby players in Munster have been taken to hospital as it was feared they might have suffered head injuries playing in cup competitions. 

IF Garda Sgt Maurice McCabe had been a docile, compliant and fearful member of An Garda Síochána, his complaints about malpractice within the force would never have come to light. It was his resilience, courage and, above all, his turbulent persistence that assured his observations gained the oxygen of publicity required to expose shortcomings within the organisation.