AMID all the deserved celebration, there has to be some sober and hard-headed analysis of our Olympic performance.

IT’S A funny place, Ireland.

TAOISEACH, believe me, I’m not one of those begrudgers who complains when you say your ministers are tired.

A SUM of €68,648.

OH GOD.

JOE HIGGINS may be as daft as a brush in political and economic terms.

DOWN in Shillelagh, near where Wicklow, Wexford and Carlow meet, there’s a small pile of stones in a field.

CAN systems change?

YOU may have seen the recent news coverage about the Government’s decision to create a new future for Shannon Airport.

I WATCHED some of the opening ceremony of the Eucharistic Congress on Sunday afternoon.