IT’S clear already, isn’t it, that it’s going to take quite a while to change the big things.

IT seems there is a problem with public service pay.

DID the Archbishop of Dublin throw down the gauntlet to the Government last week?

DEAR Joan

ONE word in particular kept popping into my head at the Labour Party Conference on Sunday afternoon.

THE turbulence in Egypt and Libya, which is now spreading throughout the middle East, has some playing out to do. It is bound to have international repercussions, and it’s impossible to see the shape of all of them.

WATCH my body language.

I’VE been travelling a lot over the past few days.

WE don’t need a televised debate — or two, or three — to tell us who’s likely to make a better Taoiseach.

I’VE never begrudged paying taxes — until now. It was a friend and colleague of mine who said that, as she looked at the shipwreck that used to be her pay-slip.