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.

THE General Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe.

WHERE, one would have to wonder, did this flurry of ideological activity, with no mandate, come from?