IT’S too late, I know, to try to influence the budget.

I’VE been thinking about Christmas already, because I spent last Sunday afternoon making a Christmas cake.

‘THE failure by the legislature to enact the appropriate legislation is no longer just unfortunate; it is inexcusable.

SOMETIMES, especially in the hurly burly of life, you forget what idealism looks like. And then you meet someone like Catherine McGuinness.

JUST under 600,000 people.

YOU’RE familiar with the butterfly effect, of course.

LAST Friday evening, at the bottom of Grafton St, a remarkable thing happened.

I AM INDEBTED to George Hook.

DEAR Taoiseach and Tánaiste, You probably don’t need me to tell you that this whole Reilly business is a terrible mess.

IT can be hard sometimes to figure out the long-term significance of political events.