The predator who knows someone’s innermost thoughts — the kind that might be guessed at from knowing the websites they go to, or reading their emails — is in a strong position to begin the process of manipulation that can end in abuse.

I have no doubt the Greens decided to go into government for good and honourable reasons, but they will achieve no real goals.

ANNA Karin Kingston once locked her son in the boot of the car. He had gone wild in the supermarket, damaging the trolleys and threatening mayhem throughout the shop. But the shopping had to be done, so she dragged him, kicking and screaming, out to the car park.

What is making Mary Harney keep her powder dry, and effectively leaving a cloud over whether a government will be formed on June 14? Is she looking for certainty there is nothing going on behind the scenes that would destabilise a government almost as soon as it is formed?

FIVE MORE years? Maybe, maybe not. We’ve grown accustomed to long Dáil terms, and we seem to have forgotten that two to three years was always more usual.

WE HAVE never been more powerful than we are right now. We, the people. We hold the balance of power. Each and every one of us individually — and more in this election than at any time in the recent past.

JAMES CARVILLE has a strange Louisiana accent, and he speaks very fast.

IN the good old days, there was always one thing on which you could rely. It was up there with the soothing quality of Barry’s Tea, the freshness of Brennan’s Bread, the reliability of Dunnes Stores prices.

It already seems it’s the promises they can’t make that might mean all the difference.

Some people with an intellectual disability are owed rebates by the State because they were improperly charged in the past.