FOOTBALL Association of Ireland boss John Delaney’s behaviour came back to haunt him last Wednesday morning.

THE significance and importance of Ryanair ordering the purchase of 175 aircraft from Boeing seems to have flown over the heads of many people in Ireland.

BACK in December I opened my weekly column in this newspaper with the following sentences: “Well done to independent TDs Clare Daly, Mick Wallace, Luke “Ming” Flanagan and Joan Collins for trying to perform a public service in the Dáil this week.

LUCIA O’FARRELL is distraught. Her son, Shane, has been killed and the man who took the life of the 23-year-old last week was given the choice of eight months in jail or leaving the country within 21 days.

THE phrase “can’t pay, won’t pay” is one that we are hearing more often in public discourse and which we can expect to hear far more often over the next year as property and water taxes and the broadcasting charge are added to the rank of annual payments expected of citizens.

GOOD gardaí gather evidence before coming to conclusions in doing their jobs.

GOLDFISH are supposed to have memories that last just three seconds. Do many Irish voters suffer the same trait?

ANYONE who was worked as a manager in any organisation knows how difficult it can be to move people out entirely or into new, seemingly less important, positions.

DAMNED if does, damned if he doesn’t.

OUR government and our officials should not be complacent about the outcome of a British referendum on EU membership, expecting either that it won’t go ahead or that, if it does, the British will vote to remain within the EU.