EU moves to create pay parity between men and women will have a major impact on business and industry in Ireland if the wage gap between the sexes is to be bridged.

THE Irish male is a much-maligned personage, judging by illuminating research from the European Commission.

THE age-old debate on how the media reports suicide has been re-ignited by the tragedy surrounding the deaths of three people in a farmhouse in Co Wicklow.

WHERE the PDs lost out from the departure of high-profile leadership candidate Tom Parlon, the Greens have scored with the election of John Gormley as leader.

CONTRASTING faces of Ireland’s economic success emerge from separate reports out today showing that while the Republic is set to top the euro growth league this year, it has the dubious distinction of boasting the seventh largest carbon footprint in Europe.

THE frustrating lack of joined-up thinking in government policy is graphically illustrated by the bizarre case of a €7m library that lies idle because of a cap on staff recruitment.

IRELAND is fast becoming a nation of reckless boy racers, judging by the latest road safety report showing thousands of drivers are flagrantly breaking speed limits up and down the country.

WHILE the vast majority of workers pay taxes on the nail, under a PAYE system that leaves little scope for extramural activities, so to speak, a lot of people resort to money laundering either to conceal criminal activities or avoid the revenue net.

VOLUNTARY vetting of people who work with children is totally inadequate in light of the scandal surrounding a leading childcare lecturer who was forced to resign after it emerged he was convicted of attempted indecent assault on a 15-year-old girl three years ago.

OF THE handful of phenomena in the world worth talking about, Irish people are obsessed by the weather.