ABRAHAM Lincoln was plagued with bad generals.

THERE’S a mystery about the closure of Accident and Emergency services at Roscommon General Hospital.

BUTCHERS or gardeners — which are they?

DEAR Minister Quinn, Let me congratulate you first of all, if that’s not impertinent, on the great start you’ve made in the Department of Education.

SOMEBODY asked me on Sunday was I disappointed not to have won the Labour nomination for the Presidential election.

SO, 100 days in, how is the new government doing?

I’M still seething, nearly a week later.

THIS media fuss about “trouble in the government” over Joint Labour Committees is daft.

A RANGE of experiences this past weekend began to make me wonder if there is something different going on in Ireland.

ON SUNDAY I was at a ceremony in Arbour Hill commemorating James Connolly, a man who believed with all his heart that a free country had to exist for a free people. It was a moving ceremony, with a fine speech by Eamon Gilmore.