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”.

IT WAS a rare moment of light heartedness in an otherwise dull referendum campaign: The Labour leader had just begun his speech at the launch of his party’s call for a yes vote when a poster above became unhinged and crashed to the ground beside him.

THERE is a real tremor of delight in subsuming ones intelligence to the blatant nonsense that a particular washing powder will wash whiter than white.

THIS shouty noisefest of a referendum campaign on the European Stability Treaty is part of a hugely important cultural debate, or it should be.

JOURNALISTS and politicians have a fatal attraction of the bunny boiling variety.