LARRY Goodman’s purchase of the old Bank of Ireland headquarters on Baggot St in Dublin — announced last weekend — is a remarkable story.

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.

JAMES REILLY has done something remarkable.

TWO men in a pub, having a couple of pints...

BROADCASTER Terry Wogan can be heard on a radio advertisement these days extolling the virtues of using Shannon Airport as a departure and arrivals point for travellers out of and into the West of Ireland.

ONE of the first and easily the most upsetting of sights to confront Eddie Travers and his wife Derbhla was that of a dead man being put into a body bag.

TO compare Michael Lowry to Mario Balotelli might seem ridiculous, but bear with me for a few moments please.

SO, how much extra tax are you willing to pay next year?

IT WOULD have been hard-hearted not to have felt at least some sympathy for Seán Quinn if you had watched him shed tears on the stage of the protest rally at Ballyconnell in County Cavan last Sunday.

IT MIGHT appear that Enda Kenny is better appreciated outside Ireland than within it, now that he is the first Taoiseach since Sean Lemass to appear on the cover of Time magazine, subject of a largely very favourable piece about the hard work he is doing to rescue the Irish economy and praising his personal qualities.