IT may have escaped your notice but the country has finally emerged from the economic crisis that has gripped it for over three years.

DESPITE the coverage during the week, the Priory Hall scandal isn’t new.

I HATE to be the one to tell you this but, according to a recent poll, almost two-fifths of you have lost your minds — to be precise, I’m referring to the 39% of the population who seem intent on making Seán Gallagher our next president.

EVERY day, at 1pm and 6pm, they gather for a general assembly.

ISN’T it amazing that whenever the Government announces a jobs’ initiative the total number of jobs that will be created is always some lovely, long round number?

“MARY must be seen on the move.” This was one of the key pieces of advice in a document of planning for Mary Robinson’s presidential campaign 21 years ago.

IT was a story to make the blood boil. Last Tuesday, it was all over the daily newspapers. For the remainder of the week, it filled the airwaves and newsprint.

ONCE, at a football match in Thurles, I saw the future of rock ‘n’ roll, and it shook me to my core.

IN 2007, the three families behind the Jurys Doyle hotel group decided to sell a sizeable chunk of the business.

EVEN little steps leave footprints.