THESE tapes just keep on coming. First, there were the ‘Lowry tapes’, then the ‘Anglo tapes’, and now the ‘Boston tapes’ are hitting the headlines.

IT was a week of two icons, the treatment of one eliciting national sound and fury, the other’s plight little more than a footnote.

ONE word has been largely missing from the reams of coverage of the Anglo Tapes and that word is... morality.

OH, to have been a fly on the wall in Finnegan’s bar.

WOULD you like to see an alternative way forward?

CHRISTY Moore once wrote a song about climbing up the walls in the cold, grey reality of the aftermath of a serious bender.

THERE was some fine architecture on display in the Prime Time ‘Breach of Trust’ programme last Tuesday.

TO make a hames of one smear was unfortunate, to make a hames of two was careless.

It is as if the cabinet lobbed the abortion issue into the committee and ran for cover as havoc ensued, writes Michael Clifford.

The labour-relations architecture... grew bloated and problematic during the bubble years, gorging on its own self-importance... Now, however, it seems to be back doing what it does best — bridging divides, keeping the peace, while acknowledging the state we’re in.