On this day, 100 years ago, 4,000 workers marched through Dublin, demanding recognition by employers for the ITGWU and the reinstatement of striking employees.

Calm please. Don’t lose the run of yourselves. Less happened last weekend than may be imagined.

AN APOLOGY is owed to Enda Kenny and Eamon Gilmore.

AT THE United Nations in New York today, Trócaire director Justin Kilcullen will leave the international stage. In a few weeks he will retire after 20 years leading and 30 years working for Trócaire.

It was vicious to watch. Two elderly tramps taunt and attack each other.

Abolition is about a politics fearful of other ideas. Abolition would stymie the challenge to the dominance every Irish government has had over a directly elected Dáil and an indirectly-elected Seanad

Apart from bumper stickers, there’s not much to look at in three lanes of back-to-school commuter traffic during rush hour in a city suburb.

DOG years are the best measure in government for counting the budgetary cycle. In human years this Government is not yet at the mid-life cycle. But come budget day on October 15 its third budget will be done and dusted.

THE images emerging from Syria — from the hysterical young girl to the rows of corpses — should be a turning point in a conflict that has killed 100,000 people. The deaths, if proven, demonstrate either the depravity of Bashar al-Assad — or the rebels fighting him.

NORMAL service resumes next week.