LILYBAEUM no longer exists.

SO, are we going to be as angry as this on budget night? Or are we going to show them that our country deserves better?

I THINK if I were a public servant today, I’d be mad as hell.

IT was 1960s music that was playing at the end of the protest march the other day. Protest songs, Bob Dylan, that sort of thing. I’m comfortable with that sort of music myself – it makes me feel nostalgic, in fact. But I couldn’t help wondering whether it said more about the organisers of the march than it did about the protesters. Somehow, it all seemed a little out of date.

HE wasn’t in good humour.

I WAS watching the news the other night and saw someone I’d never seen on television before.

IT hurts, doesn’t it?

ON Saturday, I went to an education conference where Garret FitzGerald spoke about the decline of moral authority in Ireland.

SO, next business.

DAN O’BRIEN is probably one of the people that Bertie Ahern thought would be better off committing suicide.