I READ recently about an American school principal who found he was prohibited by law from saying a prayer over the public address system at the start of a high school football game. This was on the grounds that the prayer would offend non-Christian minorities.

HAVE you checked your post yet? By now the first Referendum Commission booklet on the Nice Referendum, The EU and How It Works, will have arrived.

FORMER British Prime Minister Harold MacMillan put it this way: “Events, dear boy, events.”

AMERICANS present in Europe today will be struck by the ambiguity of many people towards their homeland, as September 11 is being commemorated.

THE bosses at RTÉ must be very happy with Interim Report of the Forum on Broadcasting which has just been published.

US President George W Bush is not attending the UN World Summit on Sustainable Development currently taking place in Johannesburg.

I cringed when I heard a father ask his child last week: “Would you like to go home with that man?”

IT would be an understatement to say that the Dean of St Patrick’s Cathedral, Very Rev Robert McCarthy, is unafraid of controversy.

AS a child I was particularly chilled by the story of Pandora’s Box. In Greek mythology Pandora and her husband Epimetheus are visited by Jupiter’s messenger, Mercury, who gives them a box for safe keeping.

WHY should a bell be shaped like a bullet, you might ask, as you exit from the Basilica of St Francis in Assisi.