THE euro is one of the main causes of our current economic problems and has been for some years now.

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There are too many vacant houses as it is and builders may sit on them for years rather than sell cheaply.

THE biggest ongoing political story of 2007 is set to dominate 2008 again: the investigation of Taoiseach Bertie Ahern’s previous financial affairs at the Mahon Tribunal. Many people can’t decide if this is a good or bad thing, both for Ahern and for the country. To tease out the issues I’ve set out a fictional conversation between two people, arguing both sides. I’ll let you draw your own conclusions.

THERE’S probably just one good thing that RTÉ can take from the controversy over the low editorial standards exposed in its now infamous High Society TV ‘documentary’ that purported to expose illegal narcotic consumption among the so-called elite of Irish society, a minister included.

THE decision by Taoiseach Bertie Ahern to send his aide de camp (ADC) to Katy French’s funeral last Monday was a remarkable, ill conceived and most probably wrong.

HOW many Greens does it take to change the entire nation’s light bulbs? Just one. Minister for the Environment John Gormley is the man about to pull off that remarkable feat.

AS hundreds of thousands of people have come to live in this country, tens of thousands of Irish people have been leaving it. Emigration has not ended. It just gets missed in the net figures we’ve taken as one of the soundest indicators of our economic boom.

But the situation changes somewhat when Bono takes it upon himself to chastise the Government over the amount of foreign aid it devotes to Africa.