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.

IN the past there have always been people in the wings who have had a vested interest in destroying the various peace initiatives.

MARTIN CULLEN has an unenviable record of fouling up more spectacularly than any of his colleagues and most of his predecessors. They used to call Charlie Haughey the great survivor, but at least he did have some achievements.

RICHARD BRUTON’S smile as he was shaking hands with Justice Minister Michael McDowell outside Leinster House in Dublin this week was understandable.

WITH the fiasco of the privatisation of Eircom behind us and talk of the privaitisation of Aer Lingus ahead, the death of one time property tycoon Patrick Gallagher and the demise of the sugar factory in Mallow are a grim reminder that we have lost the old sense of social responsibility.

THE killing of Donna Cleary would seem to have been related to drugs. The chief suspect, Dwayne Foster, was reportedly high on a lethal cocktail of heroin and cocaine.

HEALTH and crime, those two old political staples, dominated the political agenda this week, wrapped of course in the standard gobbledygook that passes for political discourse.