COMPARE and contrast, if you will, the utterances of two Catholic priests.

I am not saying that failure on the part of any communications consultancy to get a particular gig turns that consultancy bitter and twisted, but I’ll tell you one thing for sure: if the subsequent campaign goes a bit wobbly at the knees, the opportunity for the losers to crow is only mighty.

SHE’S deaf in one ear and has some tongue on her.

ALTHOUGH the summary of the findings of the apostolic visitation to Ireland is a scant seven pages long, and although it is predicated on the “sinful and criminal acts” at the root of the clerical child sex abuse crisis, it nonetheless finds space on its final page for a statement which doesn’t directly link to the rest of the document.

IF half a million people attended the St Patrick’s Day parade, relishing the temporary community of other celebratory folk, a fair number used yesterday and will use today to do the opposite: To get away from other people.

IN one area of Irish life, the public sector knocks hell out of its private sector equivalent — the make-up of boards of directors.

THE official title of the Fianna Fáil ard fheis was Empowering the Grassroots.

IT could be because the Government has done everything right from the moment they grabbed their seals of office from Mary McAleese and lashed back to Leinster House to get started.

The whole Freedom of Information process is a bit like scallop dredging.

Although the epileptic may get warnings of an oncoming electrical brainstorm, others don’t get such advance notice, and so, as far as the bystander is concerned, the seizure comes out of nowhere, transforming the person they know into someone they very definitely don’t know.