LAST week’s Sunday Tribune featured a not-very-revealing article about the contenders to succeed Desmond Connell as Archbishop of Dublin, and installed the Bishop of Derry, Dr Séamus Hegarty, as the favourite.

A YEAR after Bishop Brendan Comiskey fell on his sword in a swirl of controversy the Government has announced the terms of reference of an inquiry into how exactly allegations of child sexual abuse were handled

IS it naïve to believe that there is a ‘them and us’ in this war, a ‘them’ of barbarous Iraqi leaders and an ‘us’ of liberal democratic society?

By Ronan Mullen

By Ronan Mullen

AN interesting point arose in a recent MRBI survey on people’s attitudes to the compensation deal struck between the State and religious orders, under which the orders agreed to contribute €128 million in property and cash to compensate victims of institutional child abuse.

ALTHOUGH it is not immediately obvious to me why the Irish Congress of Trade Unions should take up a position on the war in Iraq, I am glad that ICTU’s general secretary, David Begg, has done so.

SOME of the people who marched for peace last Saturday were probably relaxing in front of their televisions when RTÉ screened The Trials of Henry Kissinger on Sunday night.

AMONG the many bizarre moments in Michael Jackson's interview with Martin Bashir, broadcast on TV3 on Monday night, was the pop star's claim that the mother of his third child, Prince Michael II, 'can't handle' contact with her child.

THERE are eerie comparisons to be made between the planeloads of American soldiers passing through Shannon airport at the moment and the steady trickle of asylum seekers in and out of our country.