Eamon Gilmore saying the Ugandan government won’t receive more money from the Irish government, because Uganda hasn’t jailed any of the people involved in corruption, is hypocritical.

The late Stephen Jay Gould, the evolutionary biologist, had frequently pointed out that humans were not the dominant life force on earth, bacteria was.

This week, civil-society organisations and individuals were invited to discuss the Scheme of the Gender Recognition Bill, 2013, with the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection.

It’s probably not well known that a then future British prime minister walked in Terence MacSwiney’s funeral during its London stage.

Have we lost our humanity? In a panic, the children of two Roma families were taken into care (both have been given back).

The Gardaí’s removal of children from Roma families is worryingly medieval.

The abolition of the telephone allowance is really a reduction in the old age pension.

I applaud the Irish Examiner for its excellent sports supplement on Mondays.

Is there not a risk that the Catholic Church in Ireland is following in the same trail as Waterford Crystal, Fruit of the Loom, the sugar beet industry, Youghal Carpets, etc. It seems that very soon one will have a better chance of meeting a druid than a Catholic priest. For years the Church has been dragging its way along the road to oblivion, even ex-communicating those from amongst its ranks who questioned the direction it was taking.

Reg Empey has rightly pointed out that extending the right to Irish citizens that are not resident in the Republic is “dangerous stuff” and would lead to a vote in Northern Ireland for Dáil Éireann in Dublin.