One-in-five Irish women currently suffer domestic violence, according to figures given to the Oireachtas earlier this year.

EVEN though the latest figures published from the Central Bank yesterday showed somewhat of a slow-down, they hardly indicate that the brakes were overly applied.

IT is simply unconscionable that a reputable company such as Google, the internet server, should lend itself to the promotion of senseless violence and encourage impressionable young people to participate in it.

Over decades our politicians have celebrated our republicanism, but the manner in which they have paid the elite within our civil service makes a mockery of real republicanism.

Last year the death rate on our roads increased and continued to rise during the early part of this year. The fear instilled by the introduction of the points system had obviously waned, because so many people were able to evade the system.

THE setting up of a Government task force to tackle the problem of crime, disorder and social exclusion in the Moyross area on the northern fringe of Limerick city should be warmly welcomed.

“DON’T do as we did, do as we say.”

THE Government stands accused of a double standard with regard to separate crises which annually claim hundreds of lives in this country.

AS seen from the latest crime figures issued by the gardaí, Ireland’s drug problem shows no sign of abating.

THE ambitious new plan to marry the economies of the North and the Republic will, depending on one’s political viewpoint, be seen either as an enlightened vision of Ireland in the 21st century or a poisoned chalice.