THE furore cumulating yesterday in the resignation of Garda Commissioner Callinan and the intensifying pressure now on the Minister for Justice, Alan Shatter, is important.

THERE is a great lusting for a moral economy.

FÁILTE IRELAND is a successful sales organisation that shapes Irish identity more than most.

IF MICHEÁL MARTIN isn’t Tánaiste after the next election he’ll be toast. If Labour can’t deliver sufficient numbers to form a government with Fine Gael, the prospect of a Fine Gael-Fianna Fáil coalition will come into view.

REPUTATIONAL collapse abroad and economic wreckage at home, remain bitter memories.

THE last government was too long in power.

The difference between last week’s big story — Pantigate — and this week’s — the alleged bugging of the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission’s (GSOC) office — is about 100 yards.

PREACHER and prophet, a leader for his people in the wilderness and schooled in scripture, Ian Paisley’s encore last Monday was the welter of biblical anathema exchanged with his former deputy Peter Robinson and others once close to him.