It was surprising that two protest marches were held in Dublin last Sunday. One was ‘Anti-Racism Day’; the other was anti-water charges.

I would respectfully suggest there is potential for conflict of interest when the same person is appointed director general of Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) and chief science adviser to the Government.

In the Irish Constitution of 1937, the accepted the definition of marriage was a union between a man and woman, same sex marriage was never envisaged.

What is RTÉ at? Love him or hate him George Hook is one of the most original pundits on RTÉ. He has a contract to continue up to the end of the Rugby World Cup for which they must pay him, but RTÉ has decided he must go now.

Success for the proposal to introduce same-sex marriage into the Irish Constitution would profoundly change the definition of marriage, a definition of an institution treasured by religious and non-religious people alike.

I watched with regret the cry for funding by hundreds of National College of Art and Design students on RTÉ News recently, and wondered why the college management has responded to such an amateur approach.

The wires are buzzing with the latest Irish Water folly; the wasting of another €650,000 of our money on an advertising campaign called ‘From Cloud to Glass’.

We need to talk about the banks — we really do. And we need to keep talking about them, because everything that is wrong with this country, today, stems from them.

When an Arab high court judge sentences the Jewish president of Israel to rot in jail, what better proof can there be that Israel is the only democracy in the neighbourhood?

Taoiseach Enda Kenny visualised himself riding on the crest of an imaginary wave during his recent St Patrick’s Day mission to the States.