THERE are two sorts of lethal weapons causing untold havoc right now: guns and cars. And it’s time we began to see them in the same light. What that means is simple.

DEAR TAOISEACH, I hope you don’t my writing to you about this, but it’s something I really feel strongly about.

IT’S NOT often that a judge manages to say something that makes us all feel good about ourselves.

THE controversy about whether Seán Haughey was shafted or just plain peed off has been an entirely spurious one.

ALL this freedom of speech and freedom of expression stuff we've been hearing about lately. I'm up for that.

ONE point two million. That’s how many children there are in Ireland (if you count 18-year-olds as children). Just under half are girls, and they constitute about 30% of our population.

I DIDN’T know, although I should have, that Auschwitz was liberated 61 years ago last Friday.

WHAT have MRBI and Thomond Park got in common? One is a highly respected opinion poll company, the other a cathedral of rugby (actually, maybe the Vatican of rugby).

I KNOW George Hook enough to know that my original impression of him was wrong.

ISN’T it funny how sometimes really important things happen and nobody pays them a blind bit of attention?