That Ross’s proposed change (re drink driving) is not embraced by the whole body politic is an acute embarrassment to any country which describes itself as civilised, writes Michael Clifford

TOM Keane is a man to whom anybody who gives a fig about the country should listen, says Michael Clifford.

Each and every station superintendant has been out on the beat and should be able to recognise bogus figures, writes Michael Clifford.

Enda Kenny’s visit to the White House was necessary - his invitation to Donald Trump to visit this country wasn’t, writes Michael Clifford.

It’s all designed to boost the entity purveying the populism rather than the cohort it’s aimed at, writes Michael Clifford.

There is something incongruous about people living in tents in this affluent enclave, en route to nowhere, as life passes by on a city-bound train, writes Michael Clifford.

The most ludicrous utterance from a politician about the McCabe affair this week was also the most representative, says Michael Clifford.

The events of recent days have thrown into sharp relief an earlier alleged attempt to smear Sgt Maurice McCabe at the O’Higgins commisison.

Writer Donal Ryan has had to go back to the day job in order to make ends meet. Michael Clifford says that ‘culture is the aspect of life that is suffering most because it can’t sustain those who want to make a living in some of the art forms’.

Unless everything is a ball of smoke, then it’s not just the upper echelons of An Garda Síochána that will be damaged by Judge Charleton’s inquiry, writes Michael Clifford