DO you know how much €90 billion is?

I WAS listening to David McWilliams on Ryan Tubridy’s radio show the other day.

NO MATTER what the experts might tell you, the country isn’t in bad health.

HELLO, how are you old chap?

I USED to think Shillelagh was a placename invented for American movies.

WE’VE had a few weeks of sheer panic.

DURING the week I advised everyone to stop talking about the report prepared by Colm McCarthy and his colleagues, and to read it instead. I’ve taken my own advice — I’ve read the report in both volumes and as much as possible of the commentary about it.

I believe that’s tragic. Actually, it’s also hugely dangerous. The more respect for parliament is allowed to be corroded, the closer we all get to a slippery slope – and it’s the slippery slope, believe it or not, that leads to effective dictatorship.

I MET Senator David Norris last week on the final episode of Questions & Answers.

THANK God for the website www.irelandforeurope.ie. At last an organisation of people who really want to go out and work for the Lisbon Treaty and they look like they’re going to do it with imagination and a bit of flair.