IT’S a frightening thought, but it’s possible we might have more TDs imposed on us. That may transpire as a result of the recently concluded census, which is not just an elaborate alibi for where you were on a particular night of the year.

The Duke in Dublin and the DUP in Killarney in the same week! And they all got home safely.

The Duke in Dublin and the DUP in Killarney — in the same week! And they all got home safely.

IF, as Shakespeare once almost remarked, you have any SSIAs to shed, prepare to spend them now.

IF, as Shakespeare once almost remarked, you have any SSIAs to shed, prepare to spend them now.

THE threat of nuclear power is looming over this country once again and it is coming, not from an unfriendly country, but from one of our own State agencies.

DOESN'T time fly? Not so long ago, the A&E issue was hardly a little crisis in Tánaiste and Health Minister Mary Harney's eye. A year and a half later, it has grown up to become a fully-blown national emergency.

JUSTICE Minister Michael McDowell must be the first politician ever in the history of the State to have issued an apology with a shelf life shorter than the lifespan of a mayfly, and that’s usually a single day.

WHEN Ryanair makes a threat, it carries it out. Earlier this week it promised to axe some of its nine routes out of Cork Airport if charges went up, and within hours the low-budget airline delivered on its threat.