THE fundamentals are sound. When we wave goodbye to milk quotas, we can increase our dairy herd by a quarter and still feed them on the same amount of grass, writes Victoria White

Mothers I know who work full-time and whose children are in primary school have full-time childminders, writes Victoria White

THERE are two distinct tracks in the Family and Child Relationship Bill which will be debated next week in the Dáil. They are going in two different directions, writes Victoria White.

What makes me maddest is that caring for a seven-year-old child isn’t work any more. 

Last night I read for the first time the account my father made of entering Germany as the first Irish journalist to report from there after the war, says Victoria White.

TWO BABIES born late last year in Portiuncula Hospital in Ballinasloe have died. Seven families in all have had their babies referred for “brain cooling” because of suspected “apoxia” — lack of oxygen to the brain — during their births at the hospital.

You were meant to be reading an article that began: “My teenage boys are sleeping upstairs. Any minute now, they’ll be down to raid the fridge and go on the internet. This is what our teachers are doing to our children, blah, blah, blah.”

Je ne suis pas Charlie. 

THE new year is not about whether Enda is under pressure from Leo or not. It’s not about how many people will register for the water charge. 

SMOKED salmon is the easy part of Christmas. Throw it on brown bread, with lemon and black pepper, and the innocents will think it’s posh and that you’ve spent a lot.