The hotel had put little dishes of diamond-hard mints down the middle of the boardroom table. The upside, at this two-day corporate workshop, was that nobody reeked of last night’s garlic.

In literary terms, this is a thriller,not a whodunnit. We know whodunnit; John Delaney dunnit. The issue is who let him do it and why, writes Terry Prone

YOU might not think that Taoiseach Leo Varadkar, US president Donald Trump and Peter Casey, a former candidate for the Irish presidency, have that much in common, but they frequently attract the same compliment: They tell it like it is, writes Terry Prone.

She had a complete mental meltdown in public, went into treatment and disappeared off stage for two months, did Sheridan Smith.

‘THAT was Gavin Duffy,” came the back announcement from Pat Kenny, mid-morning on Saturday. “Eloquent and generous in defeat”, writes Terry Prone.

The fuller than full house made the whole thing worse. More than three hundred guests were gathered in a massive dining room in the Shelbourne Hotel in Dublin, at lunchtime last Friday, for the inaugural Women of Concern awards.

This is not a complaint. Outages happen. Particularly in the wake of bad storms, outages happen. Eir puts its vans on the road after bad weather and tries to get everybody back online as soon as possible.

The problem was that Boris has absolutely no idea what would work in practice, writes Terry Prone

Presidential elections now come with two great myths attached to them, writes Terry Prone.