THE European Court of Justice is nothing if not prolific. 

TRANSPORT Minister Shane Ross has acknowledged that a reduction in garda surveillance and checkpoints “probably is one of the reasons” why there has been an increase in road deaths this year.

HAD Jillian Godsil not taken a case to the High Court in 2014 challenging the law that prevented a bankrupt standing in an election then the Government might well be facing a by-election early in the new year. 

IT seems every day brings another episode in the conflict between business and consumers — or capital and the common good, as it was described a century ago when the Bolshevik revolution loomed over Russia’s horizon.

IT would not be surprising if Germany, a shining example of how to respond to the refugee crisis, was attacked by a zealot who reached that country a destitute supplicant dependent on a culture he opposed.