Nicholas Sarkozy and Angela Merkel’s proposed debt limits for EU member states would require a referendum in Ireland.

POLICY for the future development of our mental health services is outlined in the Report of the Expert Group on Mental Health Policy, A Vision for Change (2006), which proposed a new model of service delivery.

YOU have to hand it to Sean Dunne. He has an irrepressible spirit. Whatever brickbats fate hurls at him, he just gets up, brushes himself down, and carries on. Some might say that he typifies what made this country great.

In the Commons, Rupert Murdoch and his son James resembled The Simpsons’ characters Mr Burns and Smithers.

Those at the weakest point, those who are most vulnerable, will be called on to take the greatest hit.

The poor old euro has been left bedraggled and in the gutter, haunted by flashbacks of Silvio Berlusconi’s notorious Bunga-Bunga parties attended by the likes of Karima el-Mahroug, left, nicknamed ‘Ruby the heartstealer’, where hedonism was very much the order of the day.

There was much about the bubble years of illusory excess that grated on the eye and ear... But at least no more were our people forced to take the boat, exported across the water like cattle.

HOW long does it take to get anything done around here? When does the means justify the means? Why is this country so wedded to process?

THERE was no room for basic civility. When Enda Kenny stepped from his vehicle in Athlone last Monday, he saw his fellow TD, Luke “Ming” Flanagan, and approached him. Flanagan was among a large group of people protesting at the scheduled downgrading of A&E facilities at Roscommon Hospital.

ELAINE Hyland left her home soon after 9am on December 12, 2006. She was accompanied by her two daughters, aged four and two. The older girl was being dropped to school.