It has been almost three weeks since the election, and in that period we have been subjected to prolonged theatrical shadow boxing by our politicians, with many of them acting like spoiled overgrown school children so as to gain political advantage at our expense.

227 children lost their lives at the protestant Bethany Home. It is now two more years since we erected our memorial, and we still wait on our Government to say that they wronged those who died and those who survived.

As showcased in the January 2016 figures released by the Department of the Environment, homelessness figures have reached record-high levels. That 5715 people, including 884 families with 1830 children, are in homeless accommodation across Ireland is heart-breaking.

Archbishop Diarmuid Martin is obviously a decent prelate in the right place and at the right time. Unlike his predecessors, however, who alienated the people with their heavy handed authorianism and hypocrisy, Archbishop Martin comes across as one who wishes to serve rather than its opposite.

Having listened to the recent revelations in and around the BBC on the Jimmy Savile enquiry, one thing stood out that explains the slow collapse of our country. 

I was walking past the US Embassy and I began to wonder, what if the unimaginable happens? What if Donald Trump became president of the USA?

During the election campaign, the fact that this country had just had a lucky escape from its worst calamity since independence and could have ended up like Greece was mostly absent from the media narrative.