The US report on Apple is interesting but misleading, writes Seamus Coffey.

THERE was a synergy of sorts on Thursday between President Higgins interview in the Financial Times and the hearings in the Public Accounts Committee that day about the saga of misgovernance and possibly miscreance at the Dublin Dockland Development Authority (DDDA).

"WE want to see as many of them as possible” — this was the one-line response by a grinning Enda Kenny two years ago, when he was asked if female representation would increase under a Fine Gael government.

PERHAPS Charlie Haughey was the ultimate free spirit. He did not even own his own clothes.

AS 2013 progresses, a problematic side-effect of Ireland’s six-month EU presidency will become obvious.

OH HAPPY day of sloth spent in masticating excess.

IT was a dreary evening in 1983 when a woman knocked on the door of a Labour activist in a Dublin housing estate and asked him to drive her to the polling station.

THE Nepalese boy looks shocked but he has a very big ice-cream.

IT’S just an ordinary day in Ireland when 12 women leave to have abortions in England.

DESIGNED as territories of spiritual and temporal control, Ireland’s diocesan structures date from the Synod of Kells in 1152. The bishop was a spiritual ‘capo’ and a lord who ruled.