THIS referendum debate can be reduced to competing emotions and a few heads shouting ‘Look at me!”.

A HEAVY price has been paid by Aoife Kavanagh.

LAST week, as the air grew thick with victims, I couldn’t help thinking about a man by the name of John Deegan.

POOR Aodhan Ó Riordain. Last week, the Labour party TD personified the dilemma haunting his party.

SOMETIMES, the circus gets out of hand. Last Sunday, a Government minister decried the slow rate of progress in criminal investigations into the banking collapse and the results from tribunal reports.

SCENES from anther world. Mississippi 1963.

Since the publication of the Mahon Tribunal report, there has been much breast beating about corruption. Politicians have lined up to decry how planning was debased by corrupt councillors.

Several early revelations about suspected planning corruption were ignored and recommendations quietly buried before the Mahon Tribunal began its work, Michael Clifford reports