Even when they’re a bit fractious, the worst option on a long flight is not a toddler.

Terrorism has transformed air travel into a bloody nightmare.

The immediate payoff for not having to invest each week in stickers for a wheelie bin is small but tangible.

Stigmatising those with HIV is the current manifestation of an unchanging human reality.

Fianna Fáil no longer wants nor needs one-party government.

Fine politicians like Denis O’Donovan were not the only ones to lose out in the election. Bookmakers lost out, too.

Not many experiences can be as brutal as having to speculate for viewers as to what the voters found rejectable about you and being cut off in mid-confession by a rake of statistics.

No matter how well planned it is, no matter what vested interests are tackled, healthcare is like a virus which constantly morphs into a form resistant to the most recent prescription.

‘Applied to Bertie’s house, “orchestrated” suggests that a bunch of disparate media personalities in constant mutual competition and employed by rival media outlets, got together under the direction of one conductor to damage the Taoiseach.’

MOST journalists spent the weekend chasing political party leaders. I met a more interesting group. A group of improbably cheerful victims of child abuse.