IT was Ronald Reagan, I think, who tried to laugh off the earlier stages of his Alzheimer’s disease by saying “the great thing about this condition is that you meet new people every day”. Sounds funny, doesn’t it. But when you’re actually in a position to witness the destruction of a once fine mind, somehow the humour disappears.

UNILEVER is one of the largest companies of its kind in the world and it has a significant impact on the lives of everyone of us.

NIGHT after night, you can hear the witch doctors, dancing around the fires, rattling those bones.

YOU should have seen Carrick-on-Shannon at the weekend.

I’VE written a few columns recently about the things that don’t work in our health system.

I WAS trying to figure out why Taoiseach Brian Cowen called Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny a fool for trying to raise the crisis facing thousands of people with an intellectual disability. Was it because the Taoiseach really believes there is no such crisis?

YOU know that noise Homer Simpson makes?

TWO opinion polls last week.

SO, that’s over, then. Enda won.

OH DEAR, oh dear, oh dear.