ENOUGH is enough, it’s time for our Health Minister Mary Harney to resign.

THOUGH not on the scale of the débâcle unfolding in Britain, today’s story that Allied Irish Banks have sent around 15,000 letters to customers detailing transactions that never took place is very worrying.

Deputy Martin Mansergh’s Dáil question asking how many people are earning more than €300,000 may have been primarily a public relations stunt to justify the recent increases in ministerial salaries, but it was gratuitously insulting to the Irish people.

The discovery of two more misdiagnoses among the more than 3,000 mammograms re-examined at the Midlands Hospital in Portlaoise highlights the importance of the new National Cancer Control Programme.

RTÉ HAS earned and enjoys a privileged position. It has informed and entertained us and it has helped us to reach decisions that have shaped our society.

TIME WAS one of the great questions of the day was “Why is America not socialist?” The European left just could not understand, and in hindsight they might have been unnerved by, why the pre-eminent industrial society was capitalism’s greatest champion.

THERE ARE few tragedies that so graphically, so starkly, so very everyday and heartbreaking, that illustrate our society’s catalogue of despair and failure than our growing drugs crisis.

THERE is a long and shabby tradition of tax evasion in Ireland, a tradition which has had it representatives in every section of our community, from politicians to clergymen.

IT IS expected that next month’s Budget will place a greater emphasis on encouraging businesses and private motorists to use more biofuels.

DETAILS have been made public about proposals to build 30 primary schools across the country.