WHEN The Irish Press was first published in 1931 — Pádraig Pearse’s mother pressed the button to start the printing press — the paper’s founder Éamon de Valera said the paper’s purpose was: “To give the truth in the news ...” 

Health Minister Simon Harris is delusional if he thinks that private health insurers will not pass on any increases in their costs to customers. His department has just written to insurers to advise them that the Government is to raise the health insurance levy by 10% from next April.

“The heroic dead of Ireland have every right to the homage of the living.”

JUST as the guns along the Western Front fell silent 98 years ago yesterday, their work set aside for just a short while, the Canadian poet, musician, and artist Leonard Cohen also fell silent on Armistice Day, almost a century later.

THE last grey wolf in Ireland was killed by John Watson of Ballydarton, Co Carlow, just 230 years ago.

THAT old comfort, that go-to failsafe in times of distress: “Sleep on it and it won’t seem so bad in the morning” has not worked.