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?

“AS a childcare manager ... I was tasked with receiving all notifications of suspected child abuse and ensuring appropriate action.

OVER August 28-29, 1990 an extraordinary debate took place in the Dáil. Even the fact that it was taking place at all was amazing because it would normally take the outbreak of war to recall the Dáil in August.

THERE’S a prison in the Peter and Paul Fortress in St Petersburg.