IN fairness to US President George W Bush, he has shown more interest in Ireland than any of his predecessors with the sole exception of Bill Clinton.

LAST week there was trouble outside the Nigerian embassy in Dublin as people protested over difficulties in securing passports for which they have been grossly overcharged. Up to 70 people were protesting outside the embassy at Leeson Park.

A LOT of lip service is being paid to justice, while our courts have been trampling on true justice in the name of the law.

NOT content with President Mary McAleese’s apology for her recent gaffe, people are now looking for an apology to Jewish people for Eamon de Valera’s condolence gesture to the German minister following the death of Hitler.

SINN FÉIN and the IRA refused to allow photographs to be taken of the proposed arms decommissioning in December.

VINCENT BROWNE was utterly indignant on his programme on Tuesday night as he launched into the Irish Times over the column in which Kevin Myers used the term “bastards” in an offensive and distinctly insensitive way.

THE Celtic Tiger is again thriving and one would think it is unpatriotic to suggest that, like all tigers, it will die one day and we should have the foresight to be prepared.

RAY BURKE is primarily a victim of his own arrogance. If there were real justice, however, he would have plenty of political company.

BERTIE AHERN says he won’t apologise to Sinn Féin for suggesting that the leadership had foreknowledge that the IRA was responsible for the Northern Bank robbery.

WHEN I was just four years old my mother brought my younger brother and me to this country.