THE Labour Court ruling that FÁS cannot make promotion conditional on staff being prepared to move to the training body’s proposed new headquarters in Birr, Co Offaly, is the final nail in the coffin for the Government’s decentralisation policy.

JUST AS many of the current generation of Munster supporters would like to be able to say that they were in Thomond Park on October 31, 1978, many of those moved to public tears by the death of Diana 10 years ago would prefer to be able to say that they recognised the excesses and did not participate.

The Cabinet will reportedly be considering the Aer Lingus-Shannon issue on Wednesday. It is expected that the Government will back the Aer Lingus decision no matter what.

Some 49% of people surveyed recently by Amárarch Consulting say that they have been unaffected, or only slightly affected by interest rate increases, while a majority say they have had to cut back on spending.

FIANNA FÁIL would, in public at least, angrily refute any suggestion that we live in a single-party state.

ONE HALF of the world’s relationship with food is defined by the daily struggle to feed their families.

ON NEARLY every occasion the leader of a political party resigns in a functioning, consensual, secure democracy, the immediate reaction should be one of gratitude, one of congratulatory respect.

THE warning from the World Health Organisation that infectious diseases are spreading faster than ever before must be a cause for concern.