CORK football manager Billy Morgan’s complaints after last Sunday’s game against Kerry seemed like sour grapes.

ON Tuesday last, Caroline Glick, deputy managing editor of the Jerusalem Post, was interviewed on RTÉ.

THE majority of Americans now have reservations about their country’s involvement in Iraq, with a resulting plummet in the popularity of George W Bush.

FOREIGN Affairs Minister Dermot Ahern was articulate in calling for an immediate ceasefire in the Lebanon.

UNDER international law, reprisal actions are supposed to be commensurate with the provocation.

THE recent kidnappings of the three Israeli soldiers and the horrific repercussions have a haunting parallel with events in Tralee in 1920.

OF course, drivers are directly responsible for most of the accidents on our roads, not Transport Minister Martin Cullen or Gay Byrne, the man he appointed as head of the Road Safety Authority.

THERE is no doubt we have never had it so good in this country.

THE current rumblings within Fianna Fáil and Mary Harney’s hand bagging of MichaelMcDowell this week were reminders that prior to the arrival of Charlie Haughey on the political scene, there were no power struggles in the main political parties within Leinster House.

CHARLES J HAUGHEY was the sixth of our retired leaders since the foundation of the State to die, and the real debate on his legacy is likely to begin today.