ANOTHER winter of discontent?

WHY is there suddenly all this talk about changing the constitution where children are concerned?

THE people who abused children in our industrial schools were “the dregs of society in a certain sense”.

I HOPE tens of thousands of people march tomorrow week.

I DROVE to Clonmel on Sunday for the finals of an under-nines and under-10s football tournament. It was organised by Clonmel FC and brought together young footballers from the six Munster counties. They (and the rest of us) had a brilliant afternoon and we were made to feel really welcome by the Clonmel team.

OVER the next week or so, we will see another couple of reports that will confirm, once again, how children really don’t matter in Ireland.

THIS George Lee phenomenon is dangerous. I don’t mean the man himself, of course.

WASN’T it Queen Elizabeth who first used the phrase “annus horribilis” to refer back to a particularly bad period in her long reign?

WHEN you’re hot, you’re hot.

LISTENING to Joe Duffy’s Liveline programme the other day, you’d really wonder what’s going on in the country.