IT wouldn’t be possible, these days, and it shouldn’t have been possible even back then.

During the world wars, some of the British towers were turned into observation and gun posts.

BETTER gigs may come along, this year.

EVEN if you didn’t do everything you planned, this Easter, you probably had a better holiday break than did Joe Duffy, who was minding his own business last week when a car reversed into him with enough enthusiasm to break his leg in two places.

Probably the best change of all is the rediscovery of shame.

He’s an accountant. He’s a Corkman. He’s opinionated. He’s an old friend. So when he heard me, on RTÉ’s Drivetime, suggesting that Brian Lenihan should levy enormous taxes on the very rich, it bothered him.

OUTSIDE of the Mafia, the family is the most effective repository of secrets, most of them bad.

Some people are managers almost from birth, some followers. Which is not to assume either subservience or inferiority on the part of the followers. Many people, over the last couple of decades, got shoved into leadership roles because companies developed an ‘up or out’ theory.

WHEN the Green Party asked me to serve as a discount X Factor judge at its party conference this weekend, I didn’t know whether to be flattered or insulted.

THE current bitching about the outrageous salary levels enjoyed by top bankers is an aspect of equity theory, the idea proposed in the mid-1960s by psychologist J Stacy Adams.