CONOR LENIHAN’s remark in the Dáil that “Deputy Higgins should stick with the kebabs” was intended as a jibe at Joe Higgins, not at Turkish workers.

OUR system of justice is more concerned about the rights of criminals than those of their victims.

SIXTY years ago the country was waiting for Eamon de Valera to respond to Winston Churchill’s stinging criticism of his wartime conduct.

TODAY marks the 60th anniversary of a riot in Dublin, started by the one and only Charles J Haughey and a fellow student at University College, Dublin, the future senior counsel, Seamus Sorohan.

THE Minister for Justice, Michael McDowell, has suggested that gardaí should serve in the North as a means of showing up the IRA.

CATHOLICS were not encouraged to read the bible in this country, apparently because the hierarchy could not trust them to interpret it properly. It was symptomatic of a rather cavalier attitude towards education.

AS Minister for Finance in the late 1960s, Charlie Haughey introduced a whole range of programmes that captured the public imagination.

WHEN there is nothing left to say, some fool will always say it. That was a message that used to hang in the newsroom of RTÉ.

FIANNA FÁIL is again shamelessly engaging in political prostitution. This time, the party is inviting people to pay €4,500 to join an exclusive club of party contributors.

“A CROWD of us was going along the Shepherds Bush Road when out of a lane came a chap with a donkey — just the sort of donkey and just the sort of cart they have at home,” Michael Collins explained, recalling his days in London.