WE should be cautious of agreeing with UK Prime Minister and Conservative leader David Cameron on anything. When it comes to energy policy, we should steer well clear of him.

I KNOW I should be writing about President Higgins and Queen Elizabeth and the healing of history, but I can’t stop thinking about Peaches Geldof.

IT’S good to know our national broadcaster takes nothing at face value. They don’t just swallow the testimony of the thousands of leading scientists who have contributed to the work of the International Panel on Climate Change.

WILL there be truth now, or will we go on hiding?

I’M BEGINNING to think there are two bank bailouts: one for boys and one for mammies.

THE President of the Teachers’ Union of Ireland, Gerard Craughwell, says he doesn’t think we should “experiment” with our children’s future but I don’t know how we can make progress if we don’t.

OXYTOCIN. Women’s love drug. The drug associated with her sexual pleasure, with bringing on her labour and bringing down her breast milk.

WE have been here before.

PRESIDENT Higgins was completely right to highlight the outrage that is the denial of birth records to adopted people at the launch of his Ethics Initiative this week.

DRAG artist Panti Bliss’s speech on homophobia, in the Abbey Theatre on February 2, is one of the greats of Irish politics, up there with Robert Emmet’s parting words. For anyone who has followed Bliss’s (real name Rory O’Neill) career, this is not surprising.