While the media rejoices in living in a post-Catholic, if not anti-Catholic, age, is it too much to expect some semblance of fact in commentary?

The economy is allegedly improving. This may well be evident in Dublin 2 and 4, where, I suspect, politicians and commentators spend most of their blinkered lives.

The Irish version of the marriage equality amendment to the Constitution needs to be rewritten.

Daniel Teegan claims that the “10m” (in reality circa 6 million) Israeli Jews are not “ancestors of” (read: descended from) “a biblical race of people”. 

The powers-that-be in Brussels held Ireland as the shining example of economic excellence throughout the Celtic Tiger and, excepting David McWilliams and Dr Morgan Kelly, who were pilloried, nobody in Ireland questioned the basis of the boom.

The tale of Garda Commissioner Noírín O’Sullivan’s refusal to make sandwiches/tea at her first Garda station is stirring.

In County Clare, eight hunt hounds that savaged sheep to death were then shot by farmers. This is further shocking and incontestable evidence of the havoc hunting inflicts on the countryside.

The Government is now targetting the one million workers who, so far, have avoided the ravages of the pensions industry.

Enda Kenny’s vision of the next election as a Tudor jousting tournament between Gerry Adams and himself has credibility. Not so his exclusion of Fianna Fáil from coalition.

Dr Laurence Davies (‘The fight for gay marriage is only the start of a long struggle’) raises issues about the recognition of all intimate relationships.