SO THERE we were, cooing over a photograph of the little boy a friend has just adopted from Russia and imagining what it might be like to welcome him, when one of the people in the office announced that, when he was growing up, he always wondered if he’d been adopted.

ONE of the gigs worth your attention next weekend is the Trim Swift Festival.

AN American woman named Anne-Marie Slaughter, first female director of policy planning at the State Department in the Obama administration, has gone and said it.

WHEN her husband, Terence Bryan Foley, died, it took Amanda Bennett by surprise.

THE night Mick Wallace announced, on Vincent Browne’s TV programme, that he was morphing into a politician, I was seated immediately to his left at the big table.

IT snatched defeat from the mouth of apathy, did the no side in the referendum.

WHEN bereaved parents in this country found out that tissues and organs from their dead children had been retained by hospitals, they were outraged.

THE one statement constantly made about the fiscal treaty is that we should have more debates about it.

THE chief executive of Yahoo is in dire straits and deep doodoo.

WE SEEM to have lost our grip on truth and consequences.