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Other motorists need to be conscious of tractors

Car drivers need to slow down when they see agricultural vehicles on our roads. Drivers need to be aware of the vast difference in speed between a tractor and a car.

Sat, 12 Mar, 2016

A pocket watch may hold the key to ancestry

I am doing a bit of research for native New Yorker, Tom Mannix.

Sat, 12 Mar, 2016

The refugee crisis has shown just how much the EU has lost its way

The history of the European Union since its initial seeds were planted with the Coal and Steel Committee in 1951 has been mainly positive and helped promote peace and reconciliation within Europe. 

Fri, 11 Mar, 2016

Insult to suggest that older adults downsize

I have news for you, Nama.

Fri, 11 Mar, 2016

Hospital trolley crisis

The people have allegedly spoken, but they have not asked for a firmly entrenched government of two right-wing parties who, between them, over a ten-year period, could not sort out the patients-on-trolleys scandal in our hospitals.

Fri, 11 Mar, 2016

Housing should be kept at local authority level

I agree with my long standing colleague Fergus Finlay that a new Government must have, as an absolute priority, the ending of homelessness and our housing crisis.

Fri, 11 Mar, 2016

Coalition formation was not always a pre-election done deal

The first coalition government in Ireland happened most unexpectedly in 1948.

Fri, 11 Mar, 2016

Crimes by migrants are the ‘real xenophobia’

Brussels correspondent, Ann Cahill, in her article “Migrant issue in hands of politicians focused on next election” (March 9), decribes “xenophobic citizens” anxious about an influx of Muslim migrants from the Middle East.

Fri, 11 Mar, 2016