REPORTS in this country are used by the Government and its agencies to long-finger apportionment of blame, and the more serious the issue, the longer the delay.

ACHTUNG Bertie! The Taoiseach could take a lead from the Germans who have embarked on a campaign to get the rest of the world to think their country is sexy.

A TWO-YEAR-OLD child died because her heart operation was cancelled and the Minister for Health, Micheál Martin, calls for a report.

IS it the real Ulster Unionist Party or the continuity Ulster Unionist Party which Jeffrey Donaldson wants to lead?

THE beauty about the radical plans for the health service announced this week is, from the Government’s point of view, the fact that they could take anything from three to 10 years to implement.

SIMPLE justice in this country is not so simple. Ask Andrew Moynihan.

By Pat Brosnan

THE GOVERNMENT has come up with an incredibly original solution to the country’s drink problem.

THERE’S a certain perversity in the apologia, and it cannot be described otherwise, issued by Fianna Fáil in relation to their general election manifesto this week, which puts me in mind of a quotation from St Augustine.

THE country’s serious criminals must be quaking at the prospect of Michael McDowell’s answer to the shortage of gardaí.