I’m delighted to write to you, Santy, and warn you, as you head south, to bear in mind that in Ireland the clocks have been turned back 167 years.

Pensioners have received 25% of the old Christmas gift — halleluia!

The RTÉ Primetime Bungalow 3 programme revelations are beyond sickening and totally reprehensible to the core of Irish society. 

Our media highlighted outrage over a possible payment of €280m to junior bondholders in the wound-up banks — Anglo and Irish Nationwide — combined to form IBRC.

To protect rural life, I appeal to the Minister for Finance, Michael Noonan, to introduce an equivalent to the urban renewal scheme.

Two recent District Court determinations involving ‘celebrities’ raise issues about our justice system.

It’s ironic that we celebrate the nativity of Jesus Christ on December 25, because nobody knows when Jesus was born. This observance was not general until the latter part of the fourth century.

The decision by Holocaust Education Trust Ireland to ban any reference “to the Jewish State or the State of Israel” during any part of the Holocaust Memorial Day ceremony is unjust.

Irish politicians are belatedly addressing the homeless problem but why did it take the death of Jonathan Corrie on the Government’s doorstep to get action?

I read with interest the report by Denise O’Donoghue in the Irish Examiner about UCC female students who wandered around pretending to be drunk to see how Irishmen would react.