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.

IN showing sensitivity in discussing or writing about suicide a new danger seems to be emerging.

THE Garda Siochana had a difficult and sensitive task to carry out in persuading Willie Frazer and his motley crew not to come to Dublin tomorrow to demand that the Irish flag be removed from Leinster House (where it wouldn’t be flying anyway because it doesn’t fly over the houses of the Oireachtas when the Dáil and Seanad are not sitting).

THERE are loads of topics I’d prefer not to write about for this column, or talk about on my radio programme, during 2013.

HE may be looking increasingly fraught as the demands of the job of Taoiseach mount but Enda Kenny has few reasons to fear for his grip on the leadership of Fine Gael, even though it is over 10 years since he got the job.

EXCUSE my pre-Christmas cynicism but I’m dreading the Irish presidency of the EU before it even starts on Jan 1 for a six-month period.