IN a club that produced some of the best players in the world, Manchester United’s Alex Ferguson paid a handsome tribute to Roy Keane when he described the Corkman as his “best ever player”.

SOCIAL Affairs Minister Seamus Brennan has asked officials of his department to examine ways to help low earners get a foot on the property ladder, outside the social and affordable housing schemes run by the Department of the Environment.

AMID the attention to the carnage on our roads, much more consideration should be given to the growing phenomenon of serious road accidents involving foreign nationals, especially driving left-hand drive cars.

There is an incontrovertible precept that justice delayed is justice denied, and having to wait three years to have an issue of equality dealt with amounts to precisely just that.

The get-tough image that emerged from the Fine Gael Árd Fheis at the weekend may very well be what people want to hear, but translating that into practicalities can be a very different, and difficult, ambition.

Tánaiste and Health Minister Mary Harney may well have dismissed the motion of no confidence voted unanimously by the Irish Nurses Organisation (INO), but it is an indicator of just how bitter the mood has become among the frontline healthcare staff.

The campaign launched yesterday by Justice Minister Michael McDowell on human trafficking underlines an insidious and potentially growing problem facing this country.

THE astonishing revelation that a woman, who had undergone surgery for ovarian cancer, has been given a breast check appointment for 11.33am on Tuesday, April 15, 2008, is absolutely outrageous.

WORRIED parents of young children using mobile phones will welcome the new code of practice aimed at improving the safety of Irish youngsters.

THE public can be forgiven for harbouring feelings of confusion amid the continuing controversy over the collapse of the trial of Dermot Laide for the manslaughter of Brian Murphy.