After the latest Growing Up In Ireland report, the media picked up on childhood obesity, but there was less mention of a more serious issue: one in five children has a speech or language problem.

It won’t matter what Syria does. The West has set its sights and nothing will stop the war.

What is Ireland doing about Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)? For some years, lectures from major universities have been available, free, on the internet.

RTÉ Director General Noel Curran claims the current annual €160 licence fee is ‘too low’ and below the European average.

So the members of ASTI have voted to reject the Haddington Road Agreement. Fair enough, you might reasonably comment — that is their prefect right to so do.

The arguments used in the Seanad referendum campaign seem to me to be increasingly irrelevant.

US President Barack Obama stated in his speech to the 68th UN General Assembly earlier this week: “On Aug 21, the regime used chemical weapons in an attack that killed 1,000 people.”

When arguing for or against anything proposed by the establishment in Ireland this past 20 years, one feels like King Canute charging the waves.

I arrived back in Ireland recently to see a line of Fianna Fáil posters on the roadway advocating reform of the Senate.

The warnings in the IPCC report, regarding climate change and its impact on the planet, will provoke the usual dissension from those who fail to understand the science.