SOME people have been suggesting that Catherine Butler’s interview in The Village magazine is a Fianna Fáil attempt to rehabilitate Charles Haughey, but publisher Vincent Brown has more reason than anyone to realise that the role played by Fine Gael and Labour in the telephone tapping was the height of hypocrisy.

THE IRA has always had members who have been fixated by the thought of spies in their midst.

THE Comptroller and Auditor General has warned that the rent supplement scheme is being ripped off by fraudsters.

THERE seems to be some surprise at the Government’s fall in the latest public opinion poll showing Fine Gael and Labour 9% ahead of the ruling coalition of Fianna Fáil and the PDs.

THE new president of the Garda Representative Association, John Egan, exhibited incredible insensitivity in essentially issuing a threat to his political bosses. “We are waiting in the long grass for them,” he warned.

SOME of the programmes on the airwaves these days are a reflection of changing times. There is much argument about what people should do with their SSIA money.

DR JIM MCDAID has apparently decided to quit active politics with immediate effect. He has stated that he is already concentrating on his medical practice.

It is hard to understand the mentality of those who have made a fuss over Fr Iggy O’Donovan inviting the Reverend Michael Graham, a Church of Ireland Minister, to join in the celebration of Mass on Easter Sunday.

It is hard to understand the mentality of those who have made a fuss over Fr Iggy O’Donovan inviting the Reverend Michael Graham, a Church of Ireland Minister, to join in the celebration of Mass on Easter Sunday.

AT the 1975 Munster football final in Killarney the much-fancied Cork team were being hammered, and many Cork supporters began to bail out early.