IT IS possible that you missed the fact that the Seanad resumed its deliberations yesterday. Do not feel alarmed.

LAST year Fine Gael called for the official Irish language movement to be audited.

THESE next two days may turn out to be the most challenging of Bertie Ahern’s career with a clear and present danger to his reputation.

THE morning after students across the country celebrated their Junior Cert with a night on the town is a good as any to consider how we protect our children.

There are insufficient English language courses available in this country to meet the demands of migrants from non-English-speaking countries.

The latest Junior Certificate examination results released yesterday suggests that the Government’s new curriculum to encourage more students to take science subjects is meeting with mixed results.

THIS IS the sixth anniversary of the most dramatic terrorist atrocity of modern times — the spectacular attacks on New York’s Twin Towers, which left nearly 3,000 people dead.

IT IS amazing that only two women in a hundred realise that the risk of breast cancer increases with age.

INITIAL results from the British government’s nationwide consultation on whether to build more nuclear power stations suggest that more people are in favour of nuclear power than are against.

ANOTHER relatively minor but very significant step towards turning the hatreds of the past into the opportunities of the future takes place today when the North’s assembly resumes after the summer break.