A FIT, healthy-looking man stopped me in the street one night and asked why I was in favour of allowing refugees into this country.

THE IRA formally called off another campaign on Thursday. Sinn Féin leaders have basically got the IRA to affirm what they promised when they signed the Good Friday Agreement more than seven years ago.

ARE the British learning, or is the charging of the British soldiers with war crimes in Iraq just a cosmetic exercise? In this country it seemed the British did not learn from their mistakes.

“WHY has Jesus Christ so far not succeeded in inducing the world to follow His teachings?” US President Woodrow Wilson of the United States asked in 1919.

THE recent disclosures at the Moriarty Tribunal would hardly have been newsworthy if Charlie Haughey had not accepted money from Ben Dunne.

THE most important piece of new information to come out of the RTÉ series on Haughey was the disclosure by former Deputy Commissioner Joe Ainsworth, head of the security division of the Garda Síochána, that Taoiseach Charles J Haughey summoned him to a meeting in the spring of 1982.

YOUNGER viewers will no doubt find the TV series on Charles J Haughey interesting, and it will evoke memories for older people who can still remember the events.

MR JUSTICE Kevin O’Higgins concluded that Portmarnock golf club “is not a discriminating club under the terms of the Equal Status Act 2000, because it falls within an exception provided for in that act”.

LATE on Tuesday of last week I got in to Dallas for the first time since I left there in 1973.

OVER the past weekend Americans were commemorating Memorial Day, remembering those who were killed in all the wars.