POLITICIANS are not all the same. Not everyone is responsible for the cynicism and disillusion with which people view politics.

RUDY GIULIANI was in Cork the other night, talking about leadership.

“THE commission will be entirely independent in performing its functions, a point specifically provided for in the Bill. Neither the Government nor anyone else will be in a position to influence its procedures or the outcomes of its inquiries.”

LIONS led by donkeys. It was a phrase first used to describe soldiers in the First World War and the generals who led them. It could apply to us and the asinine Government that leads us.

AFTER all the promises, all the afterglow of the Special Olympics, all the public awareness, all the consultations, dialogue and meetings... the Government is at it again.

NINETY years ago this morning, about 200 tram drivers in Dublin stopped work. They abandoned their trams in a demand for union recognition.

JANUS was a powerful god. He was almost as important as Jupiter, the king of all the Roman gods.

Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the Bough, A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse and Thou Beside me singing in the Wilderness — And Wilderness is Paradise enow.

A TALE of two leaders this week? Or, at least, a tale of what we might think of them.