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.

YOU may not know it but most of your life as a citizen is regulated by something called ‘the system’.

THE simple answer to the question posed by the National Women’s Council of Ireland as to whether women are “bearing the brunt” of the recession is “No”.

OUT of the ring for four years and off form, a tired US President Barack Obama lost last Wednesday night’s debate to republican nominee Mitt Romney.

I CAN be mature about this.

AFTER long debate but little action, this academic year parents will be given a choice to change the patron, and by extension the culture, of their child’s school.

TWO news stories from recent days eloquently reveal the madness of a world order that we have come to accept as normal, as “the way things are”.