UNFORTUNATELY, enjoyment of the Olympic Games often requires something that one associates with screen or theatrical drama, or fiction: a suspension of disbelief.

ARGUABLY the lowest point of Tuesday evening came when Madonna dropped her trousers.

AS JOHN TREACY ran the finishing 100 metres of the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic marathon, the RTÉ commentator, Jimmy Magee, listed 12 names.

DOESN’T every middle-aged and older generation think that things are worse now than they used to be?

THOSE who like to complain about the so-called “nanny state” have been given more opportunity to vent in recent weeks.

AN imagined conversion between Enda Kenny and Angela Merkel on the fringes of the EU summit this weekend….

TWO men sitting in a pub, having a pint, talking about the European football championships:

A DARK shadow hangs over the reputations of some of Ireland’s greatest athletes and nothing, it seems, can ever remove it.

AS the Green Party’s former senator Dan Boyle launches his book detailing his party’s deeply troubled time in the previous government, many in the Labour Party should read it and worry whether the Green experience as the junior partner in a coalition government is instructive in predicting what will happen to it.

IRRESPECTIVE of the outcome of referendum votes today various individual politicians, and their parties, have been winners and losers over the campaign.