WHO is the most reviled man in a State that has been laid to waste by excess and greed?

PEANUTS, monkeys. Pay peanuts, you will get somebody with a monkey’s brain. If you want the job done properly, you gotta fork out the serious bucks. So it goes for those with big brains.

ID Dominique Strauss-Khan get justice? Was he the victim of a system that convicts before charges can even be answered? Or is he a lucky boy, who can thank his powerful position for beating a rap that he deserved?

Like many things, PC is in the eyes of the beholder. Those who baulk at the term turn PC themselves if something is uttered which they find offensive.

Nicholas Sarkozy and Angela Merkel’s proposed debt limits for EU member states would require a referendum in Ireland.

POLICY for the future development of our mental health services is outlined in the Report of the Expert Group on Mental Health Policy, A Vision for Change (2006), which proposed a new model of service delivery.

YOU have to hand it to Sean Dunne. He has an irrepressible spirit. Whatever brickbats fate hurls at him, he just gets up, brushes himself down, and carries on. Some might say that he typifies what made this country great.

In the Commons, Rupert Murdoch and his son James resembled The Simpsons’ characters Mr Burns and Smithers.

Those at the weakest point, those who are most vulnerable, will be called on to take the greatest hit.

The poor old euro has been left bedraggled and in the gutter, haunted by flashbacks of Silvio Berlusconi’s notorious Bunga-Bunga parties attended by the likes of Karima el-Mahroug, left, nicknamed ‘Ruby the heartstealer’, where hedonism was very much the order of the day.