NOTWITHSTANDING the hype, the latest report of Metropolitan Police Commissioner John Stevens may be short on specifics, but it is still a damning indictment of the British authorities.

By Ryle Dwyer OVER the decades Fianna Fáil has pulled a series of political strokes on the electorate, such as Charlie McCreevy’s promise during the last general election that there would be no budget cuts, or the election before when the party promised zero tolerance on crime.

By Ryle Dwyer

MY earliest memory of anything to do with rugby was the horror of the Christian Brothers in the early 1950s at the news that Eamon de Valera described rugby as his favourite game.

IF BRITAIN did not support the United States in the circumstances, then the Americans would become more unilateralist and, thus, more uncontrollable than ever... that was one of the arguments put forward

IF THE government’s choice of Charlie McCreevy to steer the Freedom of Information Amendment Bill through the Oireachtas was a breath-taking piece of contemptible arrogance, then Cheltenham Charlie’s subsequent performance in taking off for the races while the legislation was being debated in the Oireachtas just beggars belief.

By Ryle Dwyer

WHEN Adolf Hitler shot himself in Berlin on April 30, 1945, the United States was at the height of its power.

THE Jeanie Johnston has set sail en route for America, commemorating the exodus from this country in the aftermath of the Great Famine.

NOBODY should be surprised that the Government is contemplating a revision of the Freedom of Information Act because information obtained under the Act has already exposed this Government as lying and manipulative.